Sanctions were imposed on Russia’s VTB Bank in February 2022, and it was kicked off the interbank payment system called SWIFT. SWIFT is the global messaging network that enables banks worldwide to communicate and process international money transfers, and without access, VTB should have been isolated from global finance.

KYIV - Russian missiles and drones slammed into Ukraine overnight Thursday with targets including a U.S.-owned business that President Volodymyr Zelensky said showed how Russia was not interested in peace.

A July 20 memo ordered U.S. intelligence agencies not to share information about Russia-Ukraine talks with Five Eyes partners U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats. He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong on Thursday said that China welcomes all Indian commodities to enter the Chinese market.

President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, an event the U.S. president called "a very good, early step" to possibly resolve the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants any settlement to end the war to include giving Russia full control of the Donbas

After days of high-level diplomacy in Alaska and the White House, the plan, if there is one, is to follow Putin’s lead. What a disaster.