Direct conflict between Russia and NATO was once unthinkable, but preparations and defense spending have been stepped up in nervous Baltic states.

Fifteen members of a Ukrainian militia group were convicted by a Russian military court on Friday of taking part in "a terrorist organisation" and sentenced to between 15 and 21 years in a maximum security penal colony,

Russia is paving the way to deploy about two million military reservists to Ukraine under new legislation. The rule-change could unlock a vast number of troops at a time when Vladimir Putin is under pressure to mobilise new forces to refresh and expand his 700,000-strong force in Ukraine.

Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Darchiyev delivered JFK assassination documents to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who will have experts translate the 350-page report.

A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway has been convicted of espionage after a court in Oslo found that he spied for Russia and Iran.

In the book “Ecocide in Ukraine,” Ukrainian scholar Darya Tsymbalyuk places the destruction of the Kakhovka dam at the center of a broader look into Russia’s ongoing environmental destruction of Ukrainian land.