RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

More than a year of bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Experts suspect an ...

Russia's military has been widely discredited and disparaged by the Western media since the start of its invasion of Ukraine. Russia was seen to have bungled the early phase of the war, suffering ...

Russia’s air force may have just suffered one of its worst days since the Ukraine war began. Unconfirmed reports say that four of its aircraft were shot down within Russian territory, in what ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia agreed to extend a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, an American who bravely joined the war effort in Ukraine, said her first battle resembled “something straight out of World War I.” Ashton-Cirillo, a transgender woman and ...

Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council dismisses claim counteroffensive has begun; up to 42,000 people at risk following destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam Ukraine has ...

In 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea and began fomenting conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region, there was a short phrase that captured the fear that Moscow would try to grab still more ...

“The myth that Artyomovsk is an unassailable fortress has been crushed,” an anchor said Sunday night on Channel One, Russia’s most popular state broadcaster. “Those are historic events.” A report from ...

I first got interested in Russia when I took a First Year Seminar on Russian Literature with Professor Jane Costlow. She encouraged the members of our class to study abroad in St. Petersburg the ...

In reality, they were loading oil in Russia and shipping... A car bomb killed at least one person Friday night in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine, according to officials, highlighting the war ...