Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is central to the Kremlin’s political and military priorities; its importance -- economic, cultural, historic -- stretches back decades, if not centuries. Why the fixation?

Trump called a proposed tunnel from Russia to Alaska 'interesting' and said he would 'have to think about that.'

Russia said its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, tasked with preparing a summit between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, held a "constructive" conversation on Monday.

The road known as Via Baltica will pass through a narrow strip of land between Belarus and Russia ’s Kaliningrad exclave, called the Suwalki Gap.

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Showing no respect for Trump's claim to be a master of deal making, Vladimir Solovyov launched a withering critique of the US President's strategy.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday thatthe Donbas region of Ukraine should be “cut up," leaving most of it in Russian hands, to end the war.