Ukrainian and Russian representatives will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, for their first meeting since the opening weeks of Moscow's 3-year-old invasion.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin explores a potential peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine, hawkish anti-Western nationalists at home are waging a campaign to keep the conflict going. “We surrender our weapons,

As the Russian military loses more armored vehicles in Ukraine than it can immediately replace, and sends more troops into battle on motorcycles, there are tragic consequences for the riders. Not only are bike troops totally exposed to Ukrainian drones,

President Donald Trump, speaking as his Middle East trip continued Thursday, said he does not expect progress in Russia-Ukraine peace talks until he meets personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A yacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others, was vulnerable to violent winds and was probably knocked over by gusts of more than 117 kilometres (73 miles) per hour, an interim UK report said on Thursday.

On May 5, Ukraine's National Guard released a clip it said showed how it used drones to rebuff a Russian motorcycle onslaught of troops trying to plant their flag on the ruins of a building. The video ends with the bodies of wounded or dead Russian soldiers lying next to their motorcycles.