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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced new sanctions against 162 Russian individuals, entities and vessels during a G7 meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday. This comes on top of the $2.8 billion in military aid that Canada has provided to Ukraine so far this year. Reggie Cecchini has this story and more in Business Matters for...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia could sign a peace agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy if a deal is reached. Putin said Russia wants a peaceful end to the conflict and would sign an agreement with what it considers legitimate Ukrainian representatives. He suggested potential signatories could include the speaker of Ukraine’s...

Russia has threatened to unleash a new level of destruction on Ukraine. It also threatened it would attack embassies, and therefore other countries. Nathaniel Dove looks at what the threat could actually entail and Canada’s response.

Russia is accusing Canada of being a “warmonger” and is vowing an “appropriate response” after a Canadian drone maker signed a production deal with a Ukrainian company. Mackenzie Gray reports on Russia’s threat and the reaction from Defence Minister David McGuinty.

Russia launched one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine overnight Sunday, firing 90 missiles and 600 drones in total, according to Ukrainian officials. Authorities say the attacks damaged homes, schools and civilian infrastructure across Kyiv, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used a hypersonic Oreshnik...

Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Kharkiv were targeted by hundreds of missiles and drones in a major attack launched by Russia on Sunday night, killing at least 11 civilians, injuring dozens, and forcing residents to take refuge in underground metro stations. Multiple civilian and cultural sites were hit, including several high-rise apartments, the National Film Studio,...

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday that Canada would impose new sanctions against Russia as its war with Ukraine continues. Jillian Piper reports from France on the latest from the G7 Summit.

At least 18 people are dead, and 100 others injured after Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight on Tuesday. The aerial onslaught involved more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied culpability after NATO claimed Moscow was responsible for a drone that hit an apartment complex in eastern Romania and injured two people on Friday. “These had nothing to do with Russian aircraft, but rather that these drones were of Ukrainian origin,” Putin said, blaming the neighbouring nation Moscow bombarded...

Russia has launched large-scale nuclear military exercises with Belarus involving missile systems, submarines and strategic forces. President Vladimir Putin called nuclear weapons an “extreme, exceptional measure” as tensions with NATO continue over the war in Ukraine.

WARNING: Please be advised this story contains disturbing images. After a brief respite, the war in Ukraine has resumed with a fury. Coinciding with Victory Day in Russia, a three-day ceasefire ended with a massive attack from Moscow. Nathaniel Dove has the latest on the fighting.

With sporadic instances of long-range drones straying into the airspace of several Baltic states, Ukraine has apologized, blaming Russian jamming capabilities on the incidents. Drones rely on satellite-based navigation systems that are often prone to “disturbances, jamming” and “spoofing,” Hans Liwang, a drone expert from the Swedish Defence University said on Thursday, backing Ukraine’s claims.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s relationship with China has “reached an unprecedented level” after a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, where the counterparts signed more than 40 cooperation agreements.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, underwater mines have posed a major risk in the Black Sea. Finding and detonating those mines is the work of Royal Canadian Navy dive teams – something that is both dangerous and requires extraordinary skill. In this case, a team from Halifax has been tasked with...

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine appears to be holding after Russia celebrated Victory Day in Moscow Saturday. As part of the agreement, both sides are set to exchange 1,000 prisoners, however, there’s still no sign of progress towards a permanent end to the war. Vincent McAviney has more.

Disinformation expert Marcus Kolga joins Global’s Miranda Anthistle to discuss a new report, which finds Alberta’s separatist debate has become the target of foreign interference by Russian and American actors.

To celebrate its annual Victory Day, Russia held a scaled-down parade in Red Square under tight security Saturday, following spells of drone attacks from Ukraine. In a speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin commended the soldiers of modern day soldiers fighting in Ukraine, hailing Russian “heroes” in what he called “resisting an aggressive force that is...

After months of delays, the European Parliament reached an agreement on Wednesday to give Ukraine a €90 billion loan, roughly C$140 billion. The decision comes little more than a week after pro-Russia Viktor Orban, the president of Hungary, a member of EU, lost his country’s national presidential election. Nathaniel Dove has more on what changed...

The guns between Russia and Ukraine were supposed to fall silent this weekend for a temporary ceasefire marking the Orthodox Easter weekend. Reports of Russian attacks on Ukraine have already dampened some of those hopes. But both sides did agree to prisoner exchanges for the holiday. Jillian Piper reports.

Russia and Ukraine have carried out a prisoner of war (POW) exchange mediated by the United Arab Emirates, with each side swapping 175 more detainees on Saturday, the Russian Defence Ministry said.