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U.S. Army Officer Arrested in England on Suspicion of Spying for Russia
A 41-year-old soldier based at the NATO corps headquarters at Imjin Barracks was detained near Gloucester; the Kremlin says it had nothing to do with the arrest.
WorldRussia and Ukraine Agree to 'Biggest Humanitarian' Prisoner Swap After Abu Dhabi Talks
Jared Kushner says numbers will be finalized Thursday as he and Steve Witkoff head to Moscow to see Putin, then on to Dublin to meet Zelenskyy.
WorldMore Than 850,000 Ukrainians Lose Power as Russia Hits Grid Before Abu Dhabi Talks
Strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions followed a massive overnight attack that blacked out five regions; Zelenskyy says Moscow is applying pressure ahead of U.S.-brokered talks.
WorldU.S., Russia and Ukraine Hold Abu Dhabi Talks as Kyiv Is Asked to 'Trade the Donbas'
Zelenskyy says Washington floated Ukraine ceding the Donbas for security guarantees short of NATO membership; Moscow's Lavrov rejects a European-backed ceasefire.
WorldEurope Will Join Ukraine Peace Talks in Abu Dhabi, Defying Kremlin Objections
France says Europe's voice will be heard at Tuesday and Wednesday's U.S.-brokered session, as Zelenskyy warns that a deal Trump hinted at 'might involve all of Europe.'
WorldRussian Bunker-Busting Bombs Kill 29 at Ukrainian Aid Site as 48 Remain Missing
The strike on a humanitarian aid facility in Zaporizhzhia region came as a wave of overnight attacks on power plants and hospitals coincided with U.S. Election Day.
WorldHackers Hit Ukraine and Russia Alert Apps With Fake Nuclear and Radiation Warnings
Millions of Ukrainians got false alarms of a nuclear attack and street fighting in Kyiv, and Russia's Emergencies Ministry app told users in 33 regions to stock food and shelter in basements.
WorldState Department Approves $2.1 Billion Sale of 500 Patriot Missiles to Ukraine
Canada, Germany and Norway are paying for the Lockheed Martin interceptors, but Zelenskyy warns deliveries could take years and asks allies to hand over stockpiled missiles now.
WorldRussia's Last Independent Newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, Announces It Will Close on Nov. 9
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning paper says security services forced it out of its Moscow newsroom and cut off reader donations, its only remaining funding.
WorldEvacuation of Besieged Oleshky Begins Under Melania Trump-Brokered Truce
Ukrainian and Russian delegations are moving residents out through Russia and Belarus, a route that gives skeptics in Kyiv new fears about Russian troop movements.
WorldSix-Day Truce in Occupied Oleshky Holds Into Third Day as Russian Strikes Kill Dozens
Both sides credit Melania Trump with helping broker a pause so aid can reach about 2,000 trapped residents, even as strikes elsewhere in Ukraine killed at least 14 at a Dnipro station.
Top NewsTreasury Sanctions 10 North Korean and Russian Targets Over Fake IT Worker Scheme
The sanctions hit a Russia-based, North Korean-controlled group that places operatives in U.S. companies under stolen identities and sends the pay home to fund weapons programs.
WorldRussian Drone Hits Dnipro Train Station, Killing 14 as Passengers Waited to Board
At least 19 people died in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, and Zelensky blamed eased U.S. sanctions.
WorldKim Jong Un Crosses New Bridge Into China, Vows to Deepen Ties in First Visit in a Year
The North Korean leader opened the span at Dandong and met a senior Chinese Communist Party official as Pyongyang pushes a united front with Beijing and Moscow against Washington.
PoliticsRussian Operatives Flood Midterm Campaign With Fake Videos and Forged News Sites, Researchers Say
Kremlin-backed groups are pushing AI-manipulated clips and fabricated claims against Democrats, though lawmakers say there is no sign anyone can alter how votes are cast or counted.
WatchTop NewsMelania Trump's Office Announces Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire for Occupied City of Oleshky
The first lady's office says both sides agreed to pause fighting from Oct. 29 so aid can enter and civilians can leave. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv has publicly commented.
WatchTop NewsRussia Frees Stephen Hubbard, Last Wrongfully Detained American, as Witkoff Meets Putin
President Trump says Putin agreed to release the 74-year-old Michigan retiree at his request and that the U.S. gave nothing in return, but Witkoff's praise of Putin as a 'humanitarian' is drawing fire.
WatchWorldUkraine Fires 1,000+ Drones at Russia, Setting St. Petersburg Oil Terminal Ablaze
One of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war killed at least one person in St. Petersburg and hit an oil export terminal, a depot, a data center and a logistics hub, as Zelenskyy warned Washington that waiving Russia sanctions strengthens Putin.
WorldTrump Waives Russia Sanctions and 100% Oil Tariffs Hours Before Deadline
The president used a national-interest clause in the Lindsey Graham sanctions law he signed last month to stop tariffs on the world's five biggest Russian oil buyers, as Moscow's envoy calls the move 'historic.'
WatchTop NewsUkraine Says the U.S. Gave No Warning Before a Russian Barrage on Kyiv, and Starlink Went Dark Too
Zelenskyy says Ukraine got no advance notice of more than 39 ballistic missiles and 120 drones; sources tell CBS News the U.S. may have deliberately held back early-warning data.
WatchTop NewsTrump Declares an 'Energy Ceasefire' Between Russia and Ukraine; Zelenskyy Says It Was News to Him
The announcement came hours after Trump said Ukraine should get a new president and blamed Kyiv for record U.S. diesel prices. Zelenskyy says Ukraine will stop hitting Russian refineries only if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian energy sites.
WatchTop NewsTrump Says Putin Will Release Millions of Tons of Russian Diesel as U.S. Waives Energy Sanctions
The Treasury Department temporarily lifted sanctions on Russia's energy sector after a Trump-Putin call, as U.S. diesel sits near a record $6.28 a gallon and Zelenskyy calls the move a sign of weakness.
Top NewsOpenAI Bans Russian and Iranian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Plant False Stories in News Outlets
The company says campaigns that placed false narratives in established media reached wider audiences than fake social media accounts, and one Russian operation drew a response from a member of the European Parliament.
WorldRussian Strikes Kill 30 in Eastern Ukraine, Including Attack on a Public Bus, as Kyiv Blackouts Worsen
Officials halted public transport in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the attacks, a day after a missile strike in Pryluky raised that town's death toll to 22.
WorldRussia Says 200 Contacts Are in Quarantine After a Plague-Lab Worker's Unexplained Death in Siberia
The WHO chief says Moscow's assurances are incomplete and that the agency cannot yet conduct a full risk assessment; Russia denies any plague cases.
WorldRussian Guided Bombs Kill 6 and Wound 59 in Kharkiv, Including Three Children
Three bombs hit an industrial area and a block near a high-rise in the Slobidskyi district on Monday. Moscow says Ukraine launched more than 650 drones overnight, killing two people in the Moscow region.
WorldMerz Unveils $1.5 Billion Ukraine Aid in Kyiv as Russia Strikes Academy of Sciences
The German chancellor arrived by train as a Russian drone attack killed two people at the National Academy of Sciences and damaged a Dnieper bridge.
WorldUkraine Says Russia Lost a Record 46,230 Troops in September as Lyman Counteroffensive Gains Ground
Kyiv's Third Army Corps says it has retaken 176 square kilometers near Lyman, while Russia pounds Ukrainian cities and power lines and jet-powered drones begin to overwhelm air defenses.
WatchWorldRussian Drone Hits Kyiv School With 100 Children Sheltering Inside, but Warhead Fails to Explode
The 50-kilogram warhead tore into a stairwell and did not detonate, and everyone inside survived. Zelensky calls strikes on schools "a deliberate tactic."
WorldRussia Launches Its Biggest Strike on Kyiv's Power Grid Since Last Winter, Killing 4
Sirens sounded for more than 20 hours as drones and missiles hit the Trypilska power plant. Ukraine says Russia used a steel-cutting drone on a power pylon for the first time.
WorldKasparov Says U.S. and Lithuania Warned Him of a Russian Assassination Plot
The chess champion and Kremlin critic says he wasn't named as a target. U.S. prosecutors last month charged five people over alleged Russian-intelligence plots against opposition figures.
WorldRussia Warns NATO It Will Use Nuclear Weapons if the Alliance Tries to Cut Off Kaliningrad
A Russian diplomatic note seen by Reuters threatens the "entire arsenal" and strikes on NATO decision-making centers. NATO calls it irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.
WorldZelenskyy Says North Korea Will Send 10,000 More Troops as Belgium Promises Three F-16s
Ukraine's president says Russia is mobilizing more men after Putin raised the army's ceiling again. Russian strikes hit Kyiv-area energy sites and a school in Sumy.
WorldRussian Strike Hits Ukraine's Academy of Sciences in Downtown Kyiv as Attacks Kill Seven
More than 50 people were wounded across Ukraine as the Kremlin said Kyiv 'will have to pay a price,' days after peace talk efforts at the United Nations.
WorldFinnish and Swedish Jets Intercept Russian MiG-31s Together for the First Time
Finnish F/A-18 Hornets and Swedish Gripens scrambled over the Gulf of Finland on Thursday in the two new NATO members' first joint identification mission. A day later, Putin dismissed Estonian warnings of a Russian attack as 'political clowning.'
WorldLavrov Tells the U.N. Europe Is Sabotaging Peace as Trump Urges Zelenskyy to 'Settle'
Russia's foreign minister vowed the war's aims 'will be achieved,' hours after President Trump said he wants Ukraine's leader to make a deal with Putin before the heavy winter.
WorldTrump Invites Putin to the G20 in Miami, His First Summit in Person Since Invading Ukraine
Marco Rubio announced the invitation after meeting Sergey Lavrov at the U.N. The December summit is set for Trump's Doral resort, and Putin still faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
WorldPutin's Party Took 57.8% in Russia's First Wartime Parliamentary Election With Four-Fifths of the Vote Counted, Up From 49.8% in 2021
The Central Election Commission put turnout at 56.66% and reported more than 3,000 waves of DDoS attacks on election infrastructure. Voting was also held in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which Kyiv called a 'farce.' Final results are not due before Sept. 25.
WatchTop NewsUkraine Fired More Than 1,000 Drones at Russia Overnight, Hundreds of Them at Moscow, on the Last Day of Putin's Election
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the largest attack on Moscow of the war and said air defenses downed more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, 450 of them headed for the capital. Zelenskyy said domestically built Flamingo and Pelican missiles hit 'oil and logistics' targets worth 'billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.'
Top NewsThe DOJ Says a 63-Year-Old Former Russian Colonel and His FSB-Officer Son Ran a Global 'Assassination Network'
Five men, including two Cubans and a 22-year-old Venezuelan, were charged in Manhattan with financing terrorism and murder for hire. All of them are believed to be in Russia.
WorldA Russian Frigate Fired Two Flares at a Danish Helicopter Off Gedser With No Warning and No Radio Call
Denmark summoned Moscow's ambassador and called the Admiral Kasatonov's action 'reckless.' Hours later, an Italian NATO jet shot down a drone over Lithuania that likely came from Belarus.
WatchTop NewsThe U.S. Confirmed for the First Time That It Has Weapons in Orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told a conference in Maryland that the Space Force now has 'on-orbit space control weapons.' He would not say what they are, how many there are or when they went up, and said the phrasing was 'very well thought out.'
WatchWorldA Russian Drone Blew Up a Kyiv-Warsaw Locomotive Two Kilometers From Poland, Minutes After Boris Johnson's Train Left Early
Ukraine's rail operator says it is 'highly probable' the intended target was the diplomatic train carrying Johnson, Carl Bildt and EU security advisers home from a Kyiv conference. Nobody was hurt. The strike came inside a 453-drone overnight barrage that killed six people across Ukraine.
PoliticsA Putin-Decorated Russian Oligarch Paid for Two Nights of Don Jr.'s Wedding Celebration in the Bahamas, Including a $100,000-a-Night Private Island
ProPublica found that Umar Kremlev, the 43-year-old head of the International Boxing Association who received the Order of Friendship from Putin in May, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the May 24 festivities. Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson called it 'an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend.'
PoliticsTrump Says Ukraine and Russia Both Agreed to Stop Hitting Energy Targets
The president blamed the world's diesel crisis on the Ukraine war rather than his own war on Iran. Zelenskyy said any halt has to last past Russia's 'elections' and not collapse the moment fuel prices ease.
PoliticsTrump Told Zelenskyy to Stop 'Knocking Out Diesel Fuel in Russia'
Speaking at his golf course in Ireland, the president said Ukraine can hit other targets but not refineries because the strikes are 'hurting the world.' U.S. diesel topped $6 a gallon on Friday.
WorldPutin Said European Troops in Ukraine Would Mean 'a War With Russia'
Speaking at the BRICS summit in India, the Russian president drew a red line around a European peacekeeping force while insisting Moscow poses 'no such threat' to Europe. Overnight attacks hit Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Kramatorsk.
WatchWorldWitkoff and Kushner Met Zelenskyy in Kyiv a Day After Sitting With Putin
The two American envoys called Sunday's talks substantive and said they were encouraged. Moscow and Kyiv agreed to stop firing at each other's capitals for the length of the visit, and nothing more.
WorldUkrainian Drones Set the Ryazan Refinery Burning and Kept Rostov's Air Defenses Firing for Four Hours
Ukraine's General Staff says the overnight raid also hit an airfield, a radar station and two Pantsir-S1 systems in Rostov Oblast. It came during a pause both sides had agreed to observe over their capitals.
WatchWorldRussia's Three-Day Pause Was Hours Old When a Strike on Kamianske Killed Five
Ukraine's military stood down at midnight under a truce arranged as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow. The shooting did not stop.
WatchTop NewsPutin Ordered a Three-Day Stop to Strikes on Kyiv. Witkoff and Kushner Had Just Landed in Moscow
The Kremlin said the pause begins at midnight Saturday and is tied to the American delegation's plan to visit the Ukrainian capital on Sunday. Russian missiles hit two airports outside Kyiv hours before the announcement.
WorldPutin Says There Is 'a Chance' of a Ukraine Deal. Chicago Wheat Fell 2% the Same Afternoon
The Russian president, speaking at an economic forum in the far east, said the U.S. and China are ready to back a settlement. Zelenskyy said American negotiators will visit both Moscow and Kyiv.
WorldGermany Says Russia Flew an Explosive Drone at a Ukrainian Cargo Plane. It Is Closing a Consulate Over It
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the device found at Leipzig/Halle Airport on August 4 matched known Russian hybrid operations. Putin, speaking in Kyrgyzstan, said the evidence "has been planted."
WorldA Russian Drone Hit a Warehouse Near Kyiv. Zelenskyy's First Investigation Is of His Own Officials
At least 37 people were killed and about 50 apartment buildings damaged after the strike set off secondary explosions. Ukraine's president says ammunition was being stored where the law forbids it.
Top NewsThe U.S. Has Fired 1,500 of Its 2,330 Patriot Interceptors
Defense and NATO officials told the AP that American forces in Europe could not stop a sustained Russian ballistic missile attack. The Pentagon says the reports are false.
WorldUkrainian Drones Reached 2,200 Kilometers Into Siberia and Set Fire to the Plant That Makes Half of Russia's Plastic
The West Siberian Petrochemical Complex in Tobolsk lost its central gas fractionation unit to a drone strike on Monday. It is also the only place in Russia that makes maleic anhydride, a feedstock for aircraft and drone composites.
Top NewsRussia Freed a Former Marine Who Spent 47 Days in a Dissociative Stupor
Robert Gilman, 32, was arrested on a train in Voronezh in January 2022 and watched a three-and-a-half-year sentence grow to ten. He was flown out Tuesday on a State Department plane with his mother beside him.
WorldRussia Is Giving Back the Civilian Half of Tartus and Hmeimim. Damascus Says It Has Three Months
After 18 months of negotiation, Syria's Foreign Ministry says Moscow's only two military bases outside the former Soviet Union will become 'joint training and capacity-building centres.'
WorldA Ukrainian Drone Strike 750 Miles Inside Russia Killed 12 in a City Built Around Two Refineries
Nizhnekamsk, in Tatarstan, was hit Monday morning in what regional authorities called a massive attack on industrial and civilian sites.
WatchWorldU.S. Intelligence Says Putin Could Hit a NATO Country Between This Fall and 2029 — and Poland and the Baltics Are the Likely Targets
A new assessment reported by The Wall Street Journal concludes the Kremlin's goal would be to fracture the alliance, not seize territory. A full ground invasion is judged the least likely option because it would plainly trigger Article 5.
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