The United States missed the chance to stop the aggression of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine back in 2014. Insufficient actions at that time led to the loss of a deterrent factor, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says during the Black Sea Security Forum.

Five people have been killed and six others injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight, ahead of peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv in Istanbul later today.Russian shelling and air attacks killed five people outside the south-east Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia,

Vladimir Putin's Russia was attacked by Ukraine in shocking cross-border drone strikes deep into the Russian territory targeting key military installations.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned Russian President Vladimir Putin a few weeks ago about the potential NATO response in the event of aggression against Poland. "If necessary, Poland will have NATO's support,

Trump previously said his personal relationship with Putin would usher in peace for Ukraine. Now, he says Putin's gone "absolutely CRAZY!"

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been briefed on a Moscow move to capture the Ukrainian region of Sumy, next to the frontier.

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“Russia has one of the lowest projected long-term growth rates and one of the highest levels of country risk in the world,” says Heli Simola, senior economist at the Bank of Finland in a blog post. “Only Belarus offers an equally lousy combination of growth and risk.”

The president has gone to extraordinary lengths to encourage his Russian counterpart to end the war in Ukraine. None of it is working.