Russia won China’s backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine on Friday, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led NATO military alliance should not admit new members. The demand for NATO to stop expanding came after a meeting betwe...

The following letter from leading Russian democratic  intellectuals appeared in the The New York Review on Feb. 4. There is an ever-increasing flow of alarming news about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. Reports are emerging about stepped-up ...

The Ukrainian national futsal team lost 2-3 to Russia tonight in the semi-final game of the UEFA futsal European championship tournament 2022 played in Amsterdam. Russia were 2-0 ahead in the first half before Ukraine pulled a goal back. At that poin...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have signed a joint statement in Beijing, in which the leaders call on the west to “abandon the ideologized approaches of the cold war” amid deepening divisions between Moscow and ...

YouTube on Feb. 4 blocked several channels with links to Ukrainian separatists as tensions soar between Moscow and the West over the possibility of Russia invading its ex-Soviet neighbour. The breakaway regions bordering Russia have been locked in an...

Ukraine recorded a total of 43,778 new daily Covid cases on February 3. The figure is a new record, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported. A total of 4,328 people were hospitalized and 174 Covid-19 patients died. The Health Ministry also reported th...

Russia said Feb. 3 it is closing the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and revoking staff accreditations in Russia, in response to Berlin’s ban on the German-language channel of Russian state TV network RT. Deutsche Welle calle...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Kyiv and Moscow on Feb. 14 and 15 to discuss the crisis on the Ukraine-Russia border, as tensions soar between Russia and the West. It will be Scholz’s first visit to both countries since he replaced Ang...

The latest data shows that there are more than 1.1 million people with cancer in Ukraine, with a 60:40 division in favor of men. These figures are a timely reminder today, with World Cancer Day being marked. Around 9,000 men die of lung cancer every ...

U.S. officials on Feb. 3 partly declassified intelligence that claims Russia is planning a false flag operation as an excuse to further invade Ukraine. Some details of the alleged plot are all too familiar to battle-hardened Ukraine, which has seen s...