Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced the commander of Russia's ground forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, 69, appointing him deputy secretary of the Security Council, according to a decree published on the Kremlin's website on Thursday.

Russian officials mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after Russian President Vladimir Putin ignored his demand of a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks in more than three years are due to take place.

Russia and Ukraine are set to hold their first direct peace talks in three years, both countries said Thursday, but hopes for a breakthrough remained dim after Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned an offer by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet face-to-face in Turkey.

Words of War,' starring Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya, provides a respectful but inauthentic tribute to the Russian journalist.

Donald Trump says he and Vladimir Putin need to get together to solve the Ukraine war. Trump says he doesn't "believe anything's going to happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I get together.

Moscow’s massacres of Ukrainian civilians blew apart any semblance of good faith as Washington pushed for talks