Ukraine-Russia war latest: Russian losses mount as Putin’s forces close in on key city - Kyiv says its military still holds on in northern part of Pokrovsk and is defending a smaller city nearby

Russia’s troops now control the only land link between the Baltic states and the rest of NATO territory. Around it, they create a lethal exclusion zone — mines, rocket artillery, drones and air defenses — designed to keep anyone from pushing them off the ground they have seized.

MOSCOW (AP) — Mourners gathered in Moscow Monday to mark two years since the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, under the shadow of a Kremlin crackdown and just two days since a new analysis reinforced suspicions that he was killed by poisoning.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has addressed world leaders at the Munich Security Conference alongside NATO boss Mark Rutte. Elsewhere, the UK says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in Russia after being poisoned with a deadly toxin.

When the Russian army unleashed its large-scale air and ground invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was widespread expectation that the war would wrap up in Moscow's favor relatively quickly.

Moscow's latest overnight barrage came amid temperatures as low as -14 F.

The New START Treaty expired, ending verifiable caps on U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals as tensions rise over China's growing stockpile. The post US-Russia treaty capping nuclear warheads lapses. What happens next?

What may be the most significant expansion in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church is serving as a powerful new tool for the Kremlin.

Five European countries, including Britain, France and Germany, said Saturday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed by a "rare toxin" from a dart frog and that the Russian