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.

January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

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 ...

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 ...

• Russian President Vladimir Putin shrugged off the potential effects of US sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, saying that they will not have much of an impact on the Russian economy. • Oil prices rose sharply as traders are anxious ...

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 ...

Today, January 2, Russians struck a multi-storey residential building in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv. According to preliminary information, there are casualties, as stated by Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Kharkiv Regional Military Administration head Oleh Syniehubov.