Here's what's at stake as Ukrainian and US officials prepare for crunch talks this week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Putin would find it hard to agree to the ceasefire idea without hashing out terms and getting some sort of guarantees, a ...

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Will the two sides be able to compromise on a line of separation and prisoner exchanges? The biggest issue may still be ...

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After incidents of vital underwater cables in the Baltic Sea being damaged, is British subsea infrastructure exposed to sabotage?

Russia had already seized the southern peninsula of Crimea in February 2014 before annexing it soon ... there will be times when there have been changes not reflected in the maps.

Russian soldiers crept miles through a major gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha to catch Ukrainian forces off-guard as part ...