(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published late on Wednesday that he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict. Lavrov said U.

No, we haven’t yet received any explanation through diplomatic channels about what President Donald Trump meant when he announced the resumption of nuclear testing,' says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavro

Texas Republicans John Cornyn and August Pfluger propose bipartisan bills to revoke security clearances and ban defense officials from lobbying for China, Russia.

Poland and Romania scrambled Nato fighter jets early on Wednesday as a series of explosions rang out across western Ukraine. In Poland, two airports in its southeast were shut down as Russian airstrikes targeted the cities of Lviv and Ternopil. The Polish military said it was forced to act to ensure the safety of Polish airspace.

Russia reaffirmed its commitment to the global nuclear test ban, stating President Putin has not ordered any tests. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov emphasized that Russia would maintain parity if other nations violate the moratorium,

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story

Russia’s spy agencies and Western security services are engaged in a secret struggle to gain custody of a Russian operative suspected of coordinating attacks in Europe last year that caused air cargo packages to burst into flames, according to security officials and investigators from five Western countries, reports The Washington Post.