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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a BRICS summit, in Brasilia in 2019. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)
China-Russia Relations Are ‘Rock Solid,’ says Beijing’s Foreign Minister
December 26, 2022 | 3:44pm EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu looks on. (File photo by Alexey Druzhinin / RIA Novosti / AFP via Getty Images)
Belarus Bolsters Military Readiness, Stoking Fears It Could Join Ukraine Conflict
December 11, 2022 | 4:21pm EST
Ukrainian soldiers amid the rubble of a destroyed building in Bakhmut last week. Russian troops have been trying to take the town in the eastern Donbass for several months. (Photo by Yan Dobronosov / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Russian and Ukrainian Troops Locked in ‘Meat Grinder’ Battle For Strategic Donbass Town
December 6, 2022 | 5:01pm EST
The Moscow headquarters of Rosneft, Russia’s state oil giant. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images)
Russia Bolsters Energy Ties With China As EU Embargo, G7 Price Cap Loom
November 30, 2022 | 4:38pm EST
Ukrainians in an area near Kherson which the conflict has left without power, heat, or water, cook food on an outside fire. (Photo by Andrii Dubchak / Donbas Frontliner via Zaborona / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
With Winter Coming, Ukraine Says its Energy Network is Faltering Due to Russian Air Strikes
November 21, 2022 | 3:52pm EST
An elderly woman walks in a battle-ravaged street in Arkhanhelske, a village in the Kherson region recently vacated by Russian forces. (Photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP via Getty Images
Russian Military Says It’s Withdrawing From Previously-Annexed Kherson; Kyiv Skeptical
November 9, 2022 | 3:58pm EST
A ship carrying Ukrainian corn passes through the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Cem Tekkesinoglu / dia images/Getty Images)
Russia Returns to Grain Deal After Receiving ‘Guarantees’ Kyiv Won’t Use Corridor For Military Purposes
November 2, 2022 | 6:06pm EDT
Carrying a cargo of 26,000 tons of corn, the bulk carrier MV Razoni was one of the first to leave Ukraine’s port of Odesa under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. (Photo by Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia Suspends Ukraine Grain Deal, Attributes Decision to Drone Attack on Crimea
October 30, 2022 | 5:04pm EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin oversees this week’s exercises of the strategic deterrence forces, via video link. (Photo by Alexei Babushkin / Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images)
Russia Holds Nuclear Weapons Exercise Amid Rising Tensions With the West Over Ukraine
October 27, 2022 | 4:00pm EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting on Wednesday. (Photo by Sergei Ilyin / Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images)
Amid Signs of New Counteroffensive, Putin Declares Martial Law in Four Annexed Ukrainian Territories
October 19, 2022 | 4:52pm EDT