Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to bring more "destruction" to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city of Kazan a day earlier."Whoever, and however much they try to destroy,

The administration is considering major new financial sanctions on energy, in part to give the new Trump team leverage in Ukraine talks. But Biden may not want to drive gas prices up, even in his final days in office.

Russia's natural-gas transit deal with Ukraine is set to expire soon, which would cut billions in revenue.

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of key ally Bashar Assad in Syria had hurt Moscow’s prestige, as he held his annual news conference and call-in show Thursday.

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Reclaiming Kursk is high on Moscow's agenda but comments by Valery Gerasimov failed to address the continuing presence of Ukrainian troops on Russian soil.

The strikes of the "Dagger" hypersonic missiles was seen as Putin’s revenge for the use by Ukraine of British Storm Shadow and US ATACMS missiles against Russia’s Rostov region a day earlier

The Russian president appeared in no hurry to seek an end to the war despite President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to secure a speedy resolution.

Russia should have launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a year-end news conference Thursday.

The Russian suggests his price for peace is Kyiv’s defeat and U.S. humiliation.

The explanation for Putin’s obsession with Ukraine and why the country’s Orange Revolution sparked him to such an extent lies in Putin’s comprehension of Russia’s identity and his initial political exposure as a KGB officer in Eastern Europe when the Soviet Empire collapsed.