Ukraine's allies said they had agreed to provide the country with multilayered international defense guarantees as part of a proposal to end Russia's nearly 4-year-old invasion of its neighbor.

It is the latest in a series of attacks by Ukrainian naval and air drones on Russia-bound tankers in the Black Sea, as Kyiv looks to damage Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers transporting the oil which is so critical to Moscow’s wartime economy.

Hello, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,414 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have marked Orthodox Christmas at a church in a military base,

After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed progress in developing a plan for postwar security guarantees, Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday again rejected a core pillar of the emerging peace initiative: the deployment of British and European soldiers as part of a peacekeeping force.

President Trump's actions in Venezuela also are causing unease in Western nations and giving the Kremlin fresh talking points to defend its war in Ukraine.

Russia suffered approximately 1,215,900 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and January 8, 2026, with 1,400 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

On December 18, Ukrainian forces delivered one of their most coordinated battlefield blows in nearly 3 years of war, eliminating an entire Russian regiment near Lyman in Donetsk Oblast. The strike unfolded inside the dense Serebianskyi Forest,