A British aid worker has spent Christmas Day under rocket and drone attack on the front line in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin's forces ordered an "evil" attack on civilians. Dad-of-four Pete Masters, 55, from Hereford, is on his 10th aid trip to Ukraine.

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 35 miles of coastline, after at least 3,700 tons of heavy oil spilled into the Kerch Strait.

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the fall of Assad.

Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to urgently send federal aid, saying that they and local authorities were overwhelmed.

President Joe Biden is weighing major new sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in his final weeks in office.

Putin has suggested missiles could be used to hit Kyiv's allies who have given Ukraine permission to use Western-supplied weapons to hit targets.

"President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible," Trump said during his remarks at Turning Point's AmericaFest convention.

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There are currently no prerequisites for arranging a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump. Source: Russian state agency TASS, citing Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson,

Vladimir Putin wants a sit-down with Donald Trump as equals in which they divide the world into spheres of influence.

Russia's Vladimir Putin, in his annual marathon news conference, laments "serious blunders" by his security forces and says he'll meet Trump "any time" about Ukraine.