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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.

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...

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.

As the world focuses on the war in Iran, Russia is seeing a massive surge in profits. The conflict has caused oil prices to spike, benefiting the Russian economy despite its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Redmond Shannon has the story.

Various foreign ministers at a G7 meeting in France accused Russia of helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East war on Thursday.

Ukrainians are concerned that the conflict in the Middle East is helping Russia’s war machine, not only because it’s drawing attention from Ukraine, but also because Russia, like Canada, is benefiting from a surge in oil revenues. The energy crisis has also prompted the U.S. to temporarily ease some sanctions on Russian oil shipments. Vincent...

At least 22 people, including two city officials were injured following a Russian daytime drone strike in Lviv, officials say. Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site around Lviv’s 17th-century St. Andrew’s Church was damaged in the onslaught.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, along with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, announced Canada and the Coalition of the Willing would keep Russia sanctions in place despite the United States decision to ease them.

It is a dark day of commemoration in Ukraine. Tuesday marks the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The Kremlin claimed Ukraine was mistreating Russian citizens, but there is no evidence of that. Neither side releases many combat statistics, but some estimates put the number of people killed close to two million. Many western countries, including...

Ukrainians in Canada and around the world are marking four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. What was expected to be a swift takeover has instead become a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance. Markian Shwec from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress joins Jaden Lee-Lincoln to reflect on the community’s emotions...

Russia launched 50 missiles and 297 drones in overnight attacks against Ukraine, Ukraine’s air force said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday suggested Ukraine had an interest and the capability to sabotage Hungary’s gas supply, after two backpacks containing explosives and ignition devices were found near a pipeline in Serbia that supplies 60 per cent of Hungary’s natural gas imported from Russia.

NATO’s defence ministers gathered and many announced hundreds of millions of dollars ‌of support for the Prioritized Ukraine ‌Requirements List initiative to supply Ukraine with U.S. weapons, NATO ‌Chief Mark Rutte ‌said on Thursday.

Russia’s longtime deputy chief of military intelligence, Lt.-Gen. Vladimir Alexeyev was shot and wounded by an unidentified assailant in Moscow Friday morning, officials say.

On Saturday, Kyiv residents voiced skepticism over the ongoing diplomatic talks amid large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow launched over 400 drones and about 40 missiles overnight.

Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, suggested that if the New START treaty expired with no replacement or extension then the world should be concerned that the biggest nuclear powers will have no limits for the first time since the early 1970s.

As trilateral talks resume, renewed Russian strikes are raising doubts about the path to peace in Ukraine. University of Toronto international relations professor Aurel Braun joins Miranda Anthistle to weigh in on the impact of ceasefire violations, the likelihood of U.S. and NATO military intervention, Donald Trump’s role as a self-styled mediator, growing instability within...

Supporters of the Hungarian opposition party flooded the streets of Budapest in celebration on Sunday night. With most votes counted, Peter Magyar’s Tisza party was slated for a landslide victory that projected a supermajority in Parliament, bringing Viktor Orban’s 16-year incumbency to an end.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 157 prisoners of war each on Thursday in a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates and the United States, officials said. Ukraine said the swap included both military personnel and civilians, with 139 of those freed held in captivity since 2022. Russia said three civilians from the Kursk region were...

A new round of U.S.-brokered peace talks between Russia and Ukraine began Tuesday in Abu Dhabi against a backdrop of intensified fighting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of violating a pause on strikes against energy infrastructure with a large overnight aerial assault. “And tonight, the Russians, in our opinion, broke their promise,” Zelenskyy said...