Germany is asking the European Union (EU) to take much stronger steps to punish Russia for its ongoing war against Ukraine. Thorsten Frei, the chief of staff to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has urged Europe to move “out of our comfort zone” and make decisions that will truly challenge Russia’s economy and leadership.

The city's wider metropolitan area stretches across more than 10,000 square miles and is believed to be home to more than 21.5 million people.

The 1998 crisis worsened the situation, as a global recession and falling commodity prices led to fiscal imbalances and doubts about Russia’s ability to service its debt and uphold the fixed exchange rate. The central bank raised interest rates to 150% to try and stabilise the rouble, but this failed.

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accepted President Zelensky's invitation to attend the Ukraine-Southeastern Europe Summit.

The European Union's plan to ban Russian energy imports must be prevented, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday in an interview on state radio.

The West has been applying pressure on Russia to end the war for three years, since Putin’s initial invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Brussels The European Union approved a new package of sanctions on Russia on Tuesday, targeting covert oil exports, days after the top E.U. official announced ...

Trump is deeply agnostic about the fate of Ukraine, and is ready to recognise a Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe – the US-Ukrainian “minerals” deal does not change this fact.

They are considered one of the world’s most dangerous, and indiscriminate, weapons. Yet five European countries have turned their backs on an international treaty on the use of landmines, citing the growing threat from Moscow.

The European Union is nearing a decision to include the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines linking Germany and Russia in a fresh proposal of sanctions against Moscow amid persistent rumors about reviving flows that the bloc wants to stop.