Russia has ordered a winter troop surge to break the stalemate in Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks on logistics and resupply channels will undermine this offensive.

Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on Ukraine, peace, war and Trump.

The U.S. Geological Survey on Monday recorded three separate earthquakes in Russia's Far East in short succession, according to USGS event pages for the three shocks. A fourth was later recorded. The clustered timing and proximity of the quakes raise ...

NPR's Charles Maynes in Moscow on how the White House's Russia rhetoric shifted this year and how it is landing in Moscow.

One of Russia's largest oil refineries was hit by Ukrainian drones, sparking a fire on Sunday, Russian officials and Ukraine's military said. The strike on the Kirishi refinery, in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region, follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks ...

On the Thursday, December 4, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: As pressure builds for a path to peace, we look at the global negotiations shaping Ukraine’s future and what each side needs before any deal can move forward. USA TODAY White House ...

Ljubljana — The counter-disinformation community gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for an annual conference this month, toward the end of a year that has seen Meta scrap its fact-checking program, a vaccine skeptic sworn in as U.S. health secretary, and ...

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump's envoy and his son-in-law lasted five hours Tuesday but ended without a breakthrough toward ending the yearslong war in Ukraine. NBC’s Keir Simmons reports for TODAY.Dec. 3, 2025