Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Friday, once again shunning efforts by his European Union partners to isolate Moscow over its invasion of neighboring Ukraine nearly four years ago.

An earlier proposed Trump-Putin summit in Hungary was scrapped when it became clear Russia would not agree to the U.S. president's demand for an immediate ceasefire in the Ukraine war.

Russian authorities must increase the number of people who identify as Russian and speak Russian in the parts of Ukraine incorporated into the country since Moscow's 2022 invasion, according to a document signed by President Vladimir Putin.

The plan, which has been revised since it was leaked last week, drew pushback from Ukraine and its supporters in Congress and Europe for hewing to Moscow’s uncompromising vision for a postwar settlement. Still, Putin has shown little interest in signing it.

Witkoff’s prep for Russia informed Putin’s Oct. 16 call with Trump when he warned of consequences of the arming Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.

For years, Russian elites treated offshore havens as safe extensions of their business empires. But since the invasion of Ukraine, those financial routes have been rapidly redrawn. New data now shows an unprecedented shift of wealth out of Russia and into ...

January shows the Russian leader astride a snowmobile. For February, he flips a judo partner. In August, he offers advice: “My recipe for energy: Sleep little, work a lot and don’t whine.”

A "catastrophic" outbreak of flu and respiratory issues is said to be spreading through Russian troops and decreasing the army's manpower in Ukraine, according to the military partisan movement ATESH.