Videos of an object breaking up in the sky over Kazakhstan sparked rumors of a failed launch of Putin's deadly nuclear-capable ballistic missile.

Russia claims Ukraine indefinitely postponed the release while Kyiv maintains it has been delayed until next week.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader told him “very strongly” that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.

Kyiv said Russia intends to seize half of Ukraine by the end of 2026, beyond the formal territorial claims Moscow made to the U.S.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the nation's men's side has been unable to compete at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cups and Uefa's Euro 2024.

President Donald Trump says it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

The Russia-backed Wagner Group said Friday it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists and insurgents in the country. Despite Wagner's announcement, Russia will continue to have a mercenary presence in the West African country.

By Guy Faulconbridge, Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Aleksandar Vasovic MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russia said on Sunday its forces had advanced to the edge of the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk amid a public row between Moscow and Kyiv over peace negotiations and the return of thousands of bodies of soldiers who fell in the war.