RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

Washington is throwing “oil on the fire” by allowing Ukraine to use US-made long-range missiles to target Russian territory, the Kremlin has said. Condemning president Joe Biden’s decision ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The danger and hardship gets worse by the day ...

"If you're smart, if you love freedom, if you respect yourself, you can't live in Russia. That's what they try to say to us by this stupid law." A low birth rate isn't Russia's only demographic ...

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Azerbaijani airliner plane crash: A prominent Telegram channel claimed that the aircraft was mistakenly targeted by a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile.

Fearing new US president will cut help to Kyiv, Biden administration scrambles to send military aid for war with Russia. An investigation is under way into the cause of the crash that killed 38 of ...

Russia has reportedly downed a US-made F-16 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, claiming the jet was targeting the region before being intercepted. This marks one of the first NATO-supplied fighter jet losses ...

An explosion sank a sanctioned Russian cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday night, Russian authorities said, leaving two crew members missing. The crisis center of the Russian Foreign ...

Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s radioactive, chemical and biological defense forces. By Anton Troianovski and Constant Méheut Sending troops to fight against Ukraine has gotten North ...

Why big families are put on posters in Russia Russian authorities are keen to boost the country’s struggling birth rates, which are currently sitting at a quarter of a century low.

But it’s clear their work has grown exponentially more dangerous in recent months as Russia has ramped up its ... in the productions of these UAVs live at a separate limited access compound.