A third round of peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials is planned to take place later this week in Turkey, ...

Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine strategy with a mix of defiance and veiled threats. -The ...

Annexation fails to hide gulf between what Putin wants and what his forces can hold Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh , CNN 5 minute read ...

Item 1 of 2 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert marking the declared annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia ...

The Russian government has been on the defensive since the Ukrainians launched their counteroffensive at the end of August. And now the referenda and annexation moves today are basically Vladimir ...

But that, too, cannot justify Russia's annexation plan. The referenda were rife with coercion and fraud to the point where people have been literally forced to vote for annexation at gunpoint.

Russia begins illegal referendum to annex occupied parts of Ukraine Ukrainians are fleeing from Russian-held areas to avoid the sham referendums, which could pave the way for annexation. "It was ...

Russia’s economy ministry sought to attach real-world benefits to a largely illusory claim, forecasting that the annexation would raise Russia’s production of metallurgy and sunflowers by 20 ...