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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that Russia is “ready to review truly serious proposals based on realities and our security interests” amid its ongoing war with Ukraine.

Former U.S. vice president Mike Pence has taken aim at some firebrand Republicans, warning of the implications if the U.S. does not support Ukraine and it falls to Russia. Nathaniel Dove has more.

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Canada issued a slew of sanctions, freezing the assets of alleged Russian oligarchs. Nine people have since been removed from the list, and billionaire Igor Makarov is also trying to get dropped. But as Jeff Semple reports, Makarov’s plan may have backfired.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked American lawmakers after the U.S. passed a $95-billion aid bill, which includes $61 billion in funding for his country. In an interview on U.S. television, he said the bill needs to be signed into law as soon as possible so that his troops can continue to push back against...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed gratitude after the U.S. House of Representatives passed an aid bill for his country in its war against Russia on Saturday. The president said the support — still to be approved by the U.S. Senate — was a “very weighty package that will be felt by our soldiers on the...

A Russian missile attack killed at least 13 residents on Wednesday, and caused significant damage to buildings and infrastructure in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, according to local officials.

Residents of Orsk, Russia, started returning to their homes on Saturday, after water from recent floods began receding. Residents reported extensive damage to their homes and belongings.

UK Foreign Minister David Cameron promised an annual £3 billion (CAD$6.5 billion) of military aid for Ukraine in a new multi-year pledge on Thursday as the European country continues to fight its neighbour, Russia. Cameron also said “Ukraine absolutely has the right to strike back at Russia.”

Officials in Russia are scrambling to help people displaced by floods as water levels continue to rise in the Ural River, near the border with Kazakhstan. The flooding in Orenburg is being described as the worst the region has seen in nearly a century.

Reaction continues after 137 people died in a deadly terror attack in Russia over the weekend. For more on the attack and what it could mean for international relations, Russian historian and analyst Ian Garner joins Antony Robart.

A mysterious illness that has affected Canadian and American diplomats in Cuba may be linked to a top secret unit within the Russian military, according to an investigation by CBS News, The Insider, and Der Spiegel. Joel Senick reports on the evidence, and the reaction from the Kremlin and the U.S. State Department.

Four people were wounded in a series of Russian attacks Sunday on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, according to local authorities. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “It is quite obvious that our existing air defence capabilities in Ukraine are not enough, and it is obvious for all our partners. And the world must finally hear the pain...

Russian drones hit high-rise apartment blocks and private homes early on Thursday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killing at least four people, including rescue workers, with a repeat strike at the site of one attack, officials said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday all signs indicated that ISIS carried out an attack on a concert hall near Moscow in which 137 people were killed, and he said it would be “cynical and counterproductive” for Russia to pin the blame on Ukraine.

A United Nations resolution for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza has failed yet again. This one was penned by the United States – a first from a country that has blocked three previous resolutions. Reggie Cecchini reports on the latest failed push for peace as threats of another imminent Israeli offensive loom in Gaza.

Russian President Vladimir Putin won a fixed re-election with 87.28 per cent of the vote, the highest ever result in Russia’s post-Soviet history, according to an exit poll by pollster the Public Opinion Foundation. However, the European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticized the election for taking place in a restricted environment and not being...

In Russia, all four gunmen behind Friday’s attack on a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow have been arrested. At least 133 people are now known to have been killed in the terror attack. The Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility. As Mike Drolet reports, the U.S. and Canada had recently warned...

More than 1 million Ukrainians were left without power on Friday after Russia bombarded multiple energy facilities across Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipro overnight with “59 retaliatory strikes.” Ukrainian officials say the strikes resulted not only in widespread power outages, but water supply and transportation issues across multiple cities.

President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said will strengthen the “Fatherland.” The outcome means Putin, 71, is set to embark on a new six-year term that will see him become Russia’s longest-serving leader for more than 200...

During an interview shown on Ukrainian television on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Russia would be asked to observe a ceasefire with Ukraine during the Paris Olympics this summer. The Paris Olympics will run from July 26 to Aug. 11.