A British aid worker has spent Christmas Day under rocket and drone attack on the front line in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin's forces ordered an "evil" attack on civilians. Dad-of-four Pete Masters, 55, from Hereford, is on his 10th aid trip to Ukraine.

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 35 miles of coastline, after at least 3,700 tons of heavy oil spilled into the Kerch Strait.

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the fall of Assad.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to urgently send federal aid, saying that they and local authorities were overwhelmed.

Putin has suggested missiles could be used to hit Kyiv's allies who have given Ukraine permission to use Western-supplied weapons to hit targets.

President Joe Biden is weighing major new sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in his final weeks in office.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences over a plane crash in Kazakhstan that killed 42 people.

Vladimir Putin wants a sit-down with Donald Trump as equals in which they divide the world into spheres of influence.

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport close to the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning.

The flight from Azerbajian's capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny crashed with 67 passengers and five crew members on board near Aktau, western Kazakhstan, this morning.