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ROME: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday he was back in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin and had recently exchanged "sweet letters" with him, according to an audio released by an Italian news…

KYIV: Russia announced the evacuation of civilians from a key southern Ukrainian city Tuesday as it acknowledged the situation for its troops on the ground in Ukraine was "tense" in the face of a counter-offensive. Ukrainian officials,…

LONDON: Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters, a move that is likely to infuriate the United States and other…

KYIV: The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they were under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims to have annexed just weeks ago. In another…

KYIV: Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country’s President called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks…

KYIV: Russian air strikes have destroyed 30% of Ukraine's power stations since October 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyysaid on Tuesday. He wrote on Twitter that the attacks had caused massive blackouts across Ukraine and that…

WASHINGTON: The United States will continue to vigorously enforce sanctions on Russian and Iranian arms trade, the White House said, asserting that it will stand with the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes. This will make it…

MOSCOW: An oil depot in Russia's Belgorodregion bordering Ukraine is on fire after being shelled on Saturday, the governor said, as strikes increases against the area. "We're getting bombed again. One of the shells hit the oil depot in…

ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he saw "no need" for talkswith his US counterpart Joe Biden as tensions with Washington soar over a litany of issues including Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "We should ask…

PARIS: European foreign ministers will on Monday discuss the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia and could come to a political agreement on future sanctions related to such activity, two diplomats said on Friday. Ukraine has reported a…