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Olympics - 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics - 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics Flame Lighting Ceremony - Quirinal Palace, Rome, Italy - December 5, 2025 International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry gives a speech during the ceremony REUTERS/Remo Casilli

January 2, 2026

Russians won’t represent their country at Winter Olympics even if Ukraine war ends, IOC chief says

ROME, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will not be able to represent their country even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry said in an Italian…

October 6, 2025

Russia fires 500 drones at Ukraine in deadly overnight attack, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia launched around 550 munitions into the country overnight in Moscow's latest deadly long-range barrage. Zelenskyy said that at least five people were killed and 10 injured across…

August 27, 2025

Trump ‘very angry’ with Putin as Russia’s strikes on Ukraine continue despite peace push

President Donald Trump again on Monday expressed frustration with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as Russian strikes on Ukraine continued despite White House efforts to broker a peace deal between the warring neighbors.

May 20, 2025

Trump says ceasefire negotiations between just Russia and Ukraine to start ‘immediately’

President Donald Trump held a high-stakes phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday as he continued his push for an end to Moscow's 3-year-old invasion of Ukraine after last week's peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey. Trump, in a post…

November 25, 2024

Ukraine and Russia launch overnight drone attacks amid missile strike tensions

Ukraine's air force said that at least 73 Russian attack drones entered the country's airspace on Saturday into Sunday morning, after a week in which both sides made battlefield history with new advanced weapons systems. Ukraine's air force said it…

November 17, 2024

Russia increases Ukraine drone attacks by 44% since Trump election

Russia increased the intensity of its long-range drone attacks on Ukrainian cities by around 44% in the week following President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, an ABC News analysis shows. The size and complexity of drone attacks by both…

August 2, 2024

Tears, hugs and a salute: Joyous scenes as tearful families reunite with freed Americans

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva have landed in the United States, following the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War. The…

December 5, 2023

Soldier tells BBC of front-line ‘hell’

Outnumbered and outgunned, one front-line soldier has given a sobering account of Ukraine's struggle to cling on to its foothold on the east bank of the vast Dnipro River. Several hundred Ukrainian soldiers have made it there as part of a…

October 30, 2023

Mob storms Russian airport in search of Jews

Israel has urged Russia to protect "all its citizens and all Jews" after a large mob shouting antisemitic slogans stormed a Dagestan airport. Video footage on social media showed an angry crowd running through the airport in Makhachkala seeking…

September 7, 2023

US to arm Kyiv with depleted uranium tank shells

The US has announced it will send controversial weapons to Ukraine as part of more than $1bn (£800m) in military and humanitarian aid. Russia condemned the move to equip US Abrams tanks with shells strong enough to pierce conventional tank armour.…