Ukrainian forces are bracing for another major frontline assault from Russia after learning of a large build-up of pre-battle troops in the north east.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Ukraine and other matters by phone for two hours on Monday. The conversation yielded no breakthrough on efforts to end the largest ground war in Europe since World War II. A ceasefire seems as far as ever.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke about the war in Ukraine and the two countries' relationship, but did not set out a timeline for a ceasefire, with Trump reportedly making a promise to Putin abou

The official assessment suggests Vladimir Putin is enlarging his nuclear arsenal not just to improve his position ion the battlefield, but also in response to global concerns about the possibility of WW3.

The European Union and Britain on Tuesday rolled out a sweeping set of sanctions targeting what they call Russia's "shadow fleet", a covert network of tankers used to secretly move Russian oil across the globe.

Vuyo Zungula, leader of the African Transformation Movement, critiques the recent meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump, labelling it a failure due to Trump's demands for specific delegation members.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner's Wives,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. The eighty-seven-year-old French director, in town for a rerelease of “A Man and a Woman,” his swinging-sixties “make-out movie,” ponders what he believes will be his final film.

The Russian Defence Ministry said 112 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted since 8pm on Thursday, including at least 24 shot down in Moscow Oblast.