The death of an experienced Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot in battle against Russian drones shows the high-risk tactics Kyiv ...

The district's administrative centre, the town of Sergiyev Posad, is considered the religious centre of the Moscow Region and ...

Members of a group of recovering Ukrainian soldiers take pictures at the Simonos Petras Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece, November 26, 2024. In their four-day stay, part of a psychological support ...

In March 2023, the Ukrainian government, which has owned the monastery since the collapse of the U.S.S.R., did not renew the UOC’s lease. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry threatened to evict some ...

The monks of the Svyatohirsk Lavra, a major monastery near the front line in Ukraine’s war-torn Donbas region, have been accused of siding with Russia-backed forces in the past. Now, the ...

A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region says that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it.

Ukraine's security service has raided a historic monastery in Kyiv in an operation it says was aimed at stopping Russian agents using the site for sabotage, intelligence or weapons.

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian security services on Tuesday raided one of the holiest sites for Orthodox Christians, saying they were scouring a 1,000-year-old monastery in the heart of Kyiv for ...

While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone struck a monastery in Russia's Kursk region on Friday, killing one person, the regional governor Alexei Smirnov said on the Telegram app.

Russian troops regained control of a monastery in the last village of the southwestern Kursk region still held by Ukrainian forces, state mediareported Tuesday, citing anonymous security sources.

At Simonos Petras monastery, Ivan Kovalyk hoists the Ukrainian flag for a photo. He has used prosthetic limbs since a war injury in 2023. His comrades carry him through less accessible areas of Athos.