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Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States has been elected to head the U.N.’s telecommunications agency.

Three books explain the historical roots of Putin's vision of Russia locked in an existential struggle for survival.

The Kremlin says the four regions of Ukraine that held referendums on joining Russia will be incorporated into the country on Friday.

The United States and nearly two dozen partner nations said they would accelerate weapons production, in anticipation of a sustained conflict with Russia.

U.S. sanctions going forward must focus on depriving President Vladimir Putin of the oil revenue and arms supplies he needs to press his war in Ukraine.

During the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, Biden called on Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car crash in August.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that he won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine’s attempt to reclaim control of Moscow-occupied areas that the Kremlin is about to annex.

So far, the U.S. has committed more than $16.9 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since January 2021.

Long lines of Russian men who are trying to escape being called up to fight in Ukraine continue to clog highways out of the country.

IRYNA BALACHUK - WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022, 19:54 The Kremlin has decided not to rush the official "accession" of the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia, and to postpone the closing of Russia's borders.

The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with funding for about 18 more advanced rocket systems and other weapons to counter drones that Russia has been using against Ukrainian troops.

The country has chosen its most right-wing government since the Second World War. Will political dysfunction temper extremism?

The Ukrainian government on Wednesday denounced Russia’s staged referendums in four partially occupied regions, while Putin reportedly prepares for a State of the Union address, where annexation could be announced.

European Union officials say the 27-nation bloc should impose “biting sanctions” on Russian trade and hit officials responsible for “sham referendums” held in parts of Ukraine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp to send a message against hatred.

STANISLAV POHORILOV - WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:25 Russian professional soldiers and mercenaries who have fought at the front [in Ukraine] told the media that nothing good awaits the mobilised in Ukraine; most of them will die.

The embassy warned that Russian-U.S. dual nationals could be conscripted by the Kremlin for military service.

Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik is facing an election this weekend and he has blasted the West and praised Vladimir Putin over his policies in the Balkans.

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has warned all Americans in Russia to flee immediately in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's 'partial mobilization' decree.

The roughly five-hour flight cost around $350 one week before Putin's mobilization announcement on Sept. 21.

On the modern battlefield, brains and adaptability yield far better results than ruthless brutality does.

The expected annexation of Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine into the Russian Federation could herald a dangerous moment for Ukraine.

Cohen also discussed Russia and the potential that it could use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

The European Union’s top diplomat has lashed out at Russia for holding “illegal” annexation referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine, denouncing their “falsified outcome.”

Russian-installed officials in occupied regions of Ukraine say they will ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate them into Russia, claiming their residents overwhelmingly supported such a move in Kremlin-orchestrated votes widely viewed as illegitimate

Russia has positioned itself to formally annex parts of Ukraine after occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” — denounced as illegal and rigged by Kyiv and the West — to live under Moscow’s rule.

Bill Browder, a financier who was expelled from Russia in 2005, says the rest of the world needs to join in sanctions to cut off Vladimir Putin's war machine.

Germany is right: Europe should be a haven for Russians fleeing Putin’s mobilization — but still keep out his “little green men.”

In a week since President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of Russian forces, hundreds of thousands of men have fled the country to avoid the war in Ukraine.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines and analyzes what may have caused the incident on Tuesday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

The mobilization that was announced by Putin last week touched off a frenzy inside Russia, with many young men seeking ways to avoid fighting in Ukraine.

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Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane revealed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mindset as his war on Ukraine continues on "Your World."

"It's not as if throwing people like cannon fodder toward the front" will solve Putin's military issues in Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that Russia’s just concluded “sham referendums” and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory rule out any talks with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin remains president.

Pro-Moscow officials say that residents in three of the four occupied areas of Ukraine voted to join Russia. The results of the other vote are pending.

A police officer is under investigation after a 20-year-old woman was badly injured after a train slammed into the police car she was being held in.

"It's not warfare. It's just more murder — this time of its own citizens," Hertling, who commanded soldiers in Europe, said of Russia's mobilization.

The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church says Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven.

Ukraine could — albeit not in all cases — destroy Russia's tactical nuclear weapons before they hit their targets, military expert, director of the New Geopolitics Research Network Mykhailo Samus told Radio NV on Sept. 26.

Zelensky delivered his remarks in an appearance by video link at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, as Ukraine faces a critical moment on the battlefield.

The president of Russia's Oscars committee has reportedly resigned in protest of the Russian film academy's actions.

The so-called referendums — which Ukraine, the U.S. and others have denounced as shams — are widely viewed as an initial Kremlin move toward formal Russian annexation of the territories.

Officials say about 98,000 Russians have crossed into Kazakhstan in the week since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine

Over 194,000 Russian nationals have entered Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland in the week since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

About 98,000 Russians have crossed into Kazakhstan in the week since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine, Kazakh officials said Tuesday, as men seeking to avoid the call-up continued to flee by land and air into neighboring countries. Kazakhstan and Georgia, both part of the former Soviet Union, appeared to be the most popular destinations for those crossing by car, bicycle or on foot. Plane tickets abroad had sold out quickly despite steep prices.

"I think the chances of his deescalating are close to zero," Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer, told CNN on Tuesday.

Three gas pipeline leaks in a single day suggest the Kremlin may be sabotaging energy infrastructure.

With the Russian president's impending announcement, and fears that it could be accompanied by a declaration of martial law, the exodus of fighting-age Russian men trying to flee military mobilization appeared to be reaching critical levels.

A line of vehicles stretching for miles at Russia’s border with Georgia could be seen after President Vladimir Putin’s partial military mobilization for the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s health minister says 15 people wounded in a school shooting in central Russia will be medevaced to Moscow for further treatment a day after a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 24 others

Russia's health minister says 15 people wounded in a school shooting in central Russia will be medevaced to Moscow for further treatment a day after a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 24 others.

Suspicious leaks caused a sudden drop in pressure in three main pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas to Europe.

STANISLAV POHORILOV - TUESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2022, 11:54 Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council believes that Russia can launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine with impunity, since NATO countries will not take retaliatory steps, worrying about their own security.

The British military says a planned speech later this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin may see him declare four occupied territories of Ukraine parts of Russia

Pro-Moscow officials say that residents in all four occupied areas of Ukraine voted to join Russia.

Italy’s former premier Silvio Berlusconi is making his return to Italy’s parliament nearly a decade after being banned from holding public office over a tax fraud conviction.

The “partial mobilization” of reservists may have sowed unrest, but by deepening the engagement of ordinary Russians, it will sharpen the conflict for both Russia and Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year.

Russian officials are in "very sporadic" contact with the United States about nuclear issues, a spokesperson for the Kremlin said on Monday.

Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, argued that there may come a time when U.S. interests diverge from Ukraine's in order to prevent nuclear war.

Putin is running out of time.

The fighting in Ukraine has led to protests in Russia's streets after President Vladimir Putin's mobilization order. Some men are fleeing the country. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country is not afraid of Russia. Debora Patta reports.

Recent incidents in Russia appear to be part of an effort to undermine the Russian military, but the perpetrators may not all be working together.

U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden said Monday that "a little stability will make a difference" for his family after Russia granted him full citizenship.

(Photo by YURI KOCHETKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei disclosed on Monday that he attended a series of confidential meetings with European and American leaders on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last week. “Those were meetings with Europeans and Americans. They asked us to keep our conversations confidential,” Makei said, according to Belarusian state news agency Belta.The foreign minister of Belarus, a key ally of Russian P

Dagestan in the Caucasus and Buratiya in the Far East are the most restive as the Kremlin conscripts more soldiers for Ukraine.

Five days after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization to call up hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in Ukraine, the move has triggered outraged protests across Russia, a fearful exodus of men of fighting age from the country, and acts of violence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency.

A party with neo-fascist roots has won the most votes in Italy’s national election, setting the stage for talks to form the country’s first far right-led government since World War II, with Giorgia Meloni at the helm as Italy’s first female premier.

A young man shot a Russian military commander at close range at an enlistment office Monday.

Europe is staring down a winter energy crisis.

After seven weary months of war, many Ukrainians fear more suffering and political repression awaits them.

Umar Kremlev will remain the President of the International Boxing Association after the body voted against holding a new election.

Ukraine's president says Russia’s rush to mobilize hundreds of thousands of recruits to staunch stinging losses is a tacit acknowledgement that its “army is not able to fight."

Russia has told the world that it has “no choice” but to take military action in Ukraine.

Russian police have moved quickly to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization order.

Russian forces launched new strikes on Ukrainian cities as Kremlin-orchestrated votes took place in occupied regions of Ukraine to create a pretext for their annexation by Moscow.

Belarus' opposition leader says the fate of Belarus and Ukraine are “interconnected” and both countries have to fight together for their very existence because Russia doesn’t view them as independent sovereign states.

In speech after speech, world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly are spotlighting Russia’s war in Ukraine.

How will American leaders and their allies respond if President Vladimir Putin seeks to escalate his way out of his bad situation on Ukraine’s battlefields.

Italian voters cast ballots on Sunday in an election that has been billed as crucial as Europe reels from the repercussions of war in Ukraine.

A Kremlin-orchestrated referendum got underway in occupied regions of Ukraine that sought to make them part of Russia, with some officials carrying ballots to apartment blocks accompanied by gun-toting police.

The tide of international opinion appears to have decisively shifted against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries joined the United States and its allies in condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine and its threats to the principles of the international rules-based order.

Two of the world’s most persistent conflicts have punctuated debate at the United Nations.

Four occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine are set to start voting Friday in Kremlin-engineered referendums on whether to become part of Russia, setting the stage for Moscow to annex the areas in a sharp escalation of the nearly seven-month war.

Hungary’s governing party says it wants to poll the country’s citizens on whether they support European Union sanctions imposed against Russia over its war in Ukraine.

The Czech Foreign Ministry has told the NHL that Russian players are not welcome for season-opening games because of the invasion of Ukraine.

The United States is urging other nations to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine.

Russia is escalating its military and political campaign to take over Ukrainian territory.

European Union officials say the world's biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more sanctions on Russia.

The main candidates in Italy's general election on Sunday to elect a new Parliament and determine who next governs the country include both familiar names and lesser-known ones.

Ukraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap with Russia, the culmination of months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.

After two years of discourse dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine has taken center stage at this year’s U.N. General Assembly.

Ukraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.

This week marks the culmination of a four-year-long campaign in Oregon to plant saplings grown from the seeds of trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

North Korea says it hasn’t exported any weapons supplies to Russia during the war in Ukraine and has no plans to do so in the future.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making “saber-rattling threats” to cover his failed invasion of Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin says he won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons to protect Russian territory, a threat that comes as Moscow is poised to annex swaths of Ukraine that Moscow has taken over after hastily called referendums there.