The most northerly city in the world, the remote Russian mining town of Norilsk is dark for two months of the year and has a truly chilling past. Home to over 170,000 people, the small city in the ...

While the U.S. and Western Europe prosper, Russia is in the throes of a widespread economic depression. Khrushchev’s blundering attempts to meet the agricultural crisis (for which Georgy ...

Officials in Russia say drones launched by Kyiv have hit Kazan, a city more than 600 miles from Ukraine which hosted an ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is "doing everything" to ensure that proposed peace talks in Istanbul on ...

Nothing hurts anymore, there’s no depression ... “Missiles against peaceful cities, against residential buildings, a cathedral … There can be no excuse for Russian evil,” Zelensky said.

But Russia's all-out war on Ukraine -- which the Kremlin insists on calling a "special military operation" -- has decimated multiple cities and towns targeted in Moscow's ostensible "liberation ...

The Russian bombing campaign that had escalated in recent days slowed overnight as far fewer Russian drones targeted ...

Ukraine has claimed it still controls parts of Bakhmut after Russian forces said they had finally captured the besieged eastern city. The conflicting claims follow a months-long slog in the city ...

Kyiv — A massive barrage of Russian strikes on Monday morning hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities. Russian missiles knocked out water and power supplies in ...

Almost eight months on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its forces are struggling while Ukraine has advanced and regained territory in the east and south. In the eastern Donbas region, the city ...