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An Hour AgoRussian strikes wound 10 people in Kharkiv A Russian airstrike on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv destroyed a cafe and left 10 people wounded, Reuters reported Wednesday.A 12-storey high rise also had its windows blown out and a trolleybus was severely damaged, according to the reports. CNBC was unable to independently verify…

A show from former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has reportedly appeared on a Russian state television channel for the first time.Carlson is presenting the program Tucker, which is broadcast on Russia 24. The first episode and other clips from previous months are now available online, Russian state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.On the…

A new Russian offensive has clawed back miles of terrain near the key Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, but a surge of U.S. weapons and Russia’s inability to coordinate its ground and air forces make a breakthrough unlikely, according to U.S. officials and military analysts.Ukrainians remain under threat from Russian drones, missiles and shelling as…

Ukraine’s struggle to fend off Russia’s massive offensive in the Kharkiv region has underscored a pressing issue that Kyiv has long tried to overturn: a ban on firing U.S. weapons to hit inside of Russia.  Russia launched its Kharkiv offensive from the neighboring Belgorod region, and some Ukrainian officials are arguing that the attack…

KYIV, Ukraine -- A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine’s second-largest city.The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the…

Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies Satellite images exclusive to CNN show destroyed jets and building at Belbek Airbase in Crimea on May 15, 2024.…

7:15 a.m. ET, May 16, 2024 US soldier detained in Russia "admitted guilt," Russian state media reports…

Last month, a video began circulating on social media purporting to tell the story of an internet troll farm in Kyiv targeting the American election.Speaking in English with a Slavic accent, “Olesya” offers a first-person account of how she and her colleagues initially worked in support of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Then, she says,…

We reported earlier that Putin will visit Beijing this week for talks with China’s Xi Jinping. This will be his first foreign trip since being sworn in for a new six-year term earlier this month. Here is a look at the last five years of the Xi-Putin friendship: 2019: Xi visits ‘best friend’ Xi paid a state visit to Russia in June of 2019, during…