For decades, if not more, English speakers the world over referred to Ukraine’s capital as Kiev, pronouncing it kee-yev. Few people knew they were using the Russian name for the city. The city ...

Poland's strategic location at the heart of Central Europe positions it as a vital crossroads, connecting the dense forests ...

After the Mongol invasions of the 1220s and 1230s ... of the successor states of the Romanov empire, alongside Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Poland and Bolshevik Russia.

Over the eight centuries that followed the breakup of Kyivan Rus, Kyiv was controlled by the Mongols, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire, and lastly the Soviet ...

VILNIUS, March 26 (Reuters) - A search for four U.S. soldiers continued in Lithuania after their vehicle was found submerged in a training area, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday. "The M88 Hercules ...

Four U.S. Army soldiers were missing Wednesday in Lithuania after disappearing during a training exercise, officials said. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte had told reporters in Poland that the ...

The soldiers were on a training mission Tuesday when their heavy vehicle sank in a swamp in eastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, the Army said. By Michael Levenson and Eric Schmitt A ...

Hundreds of troops and emergency workers are racing to find four US soldiers who went missing during a training mission near Lithuania’s border with Belarus, the US Army said Thursday ...

A vehicle has been found in the hunt for four American soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania, the US Army said on Wednesday. The search for the missing soldiers - who were at the ...