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Ukraine has renewed its push to keep Russian athletes out of the Olympics ahead of an IOC board meeting next week, which is expected to lay out the framework for their return.

Russia and Belarus teams have been excluded by the International Ice Hockey Federation from all its world championships next season, including the 2024 women’s event being hosted in the U.S.

President Vladimir Putin wasn’t waiting at the end of the red carpet to greet Chinese leader Xi Jinping upon his arrival in Russia for a high-profile visit. But it wasn’t a snub. Russia’s standard protocol for visiting dignitaries calls for them to be welcomed at the airport by a lower-ranking Cabinet official. Many observers argue that the fighting in Ukraine...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow today to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine have fallen short.

The visits came days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.

The Ukrainian military additionally said in its regular update Saturday morning that Russian forces over the previous 24 hours launched 34 airstrikes, one missile strike and 57 rounds of anti-aircraft fire.

Russia’s Defense Ministry says fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards.

The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

The visit comes amid sharpening East-West tensions over the war in Ukraine and the latest sign of Beijing’s emboldened diplomatic ambitions.

The Pentagon released the newly declassified footage of what it says shows a Russian fighter jet harassing and colliding with an U.S. drone over the Black Sea.

The 42-second video shows a Russian Su-27 approaching the back of the MQ-9 drone and dumping fuel on it before striking its propeller.

The Russian jets dropped jet fuel on the MQ-9 Reaper, an unprecedented action

U.S. and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet — each blaming the other.

The Biden administration is allowing thousands of Ukrainians who fled their homeland when Russia invaded a year ago to stay in the United States longer. The administration announced the decision Monday. The move provides relief to Ukrainians whose one-year authorization to stay in the U.S. was set to expire soon. Thousands of Ukrainians came to the U.S. last year fleeing...

The freshly exhumed remains of three men lie in black body bags on the edge of the small cemetery in a town not far from Ukraine’s capital, waiting to be taken to a morgue. None has yet been identified.

The “Under Siege” action star holds both American and Russian citizenship.

The Justice Department’s “Operation KleptoCapture” is seeking to seize luxury real-estate in the Hamptons, New York City and Miami Beach valued at $75 million and belonging to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, court documents show.

Friday, Feb. 24, will mark one year since millions of Ukrainian families were forced to flee the country.

Audio intercepts obtained by The Associated Press of conversations between Russian soldiers in Ukraine and their loved ones give an intimate glimpse of how ordinary men found themselves condoning atrocities and turning into killers.