ON Vladimir Putin’s doorstep, a tiny Nato nation of two million people are drawing up war plans for a possible invasion. Lithuania has recruited a secret army and drawn up plans for a forest

President Donald Trump said Friday he has not considered granting a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, a former girlfriend and accomplice of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Justice Department officials have met with Maxwell in Florida this week as the furor over the Trump administration’s handling of documents from the Epstein case continues.

US President Donald Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Trump said with the journalists. "It's going to happen, but it should have happened three months ago,

A deepening spat between Russia and Azerbaijan shows Vladimir Putin's waning influence in the South Caucasus, analysts have told Newsweek.

Moscow has reportedly struck a deal with New Delhi to bring in up to one million Indian workers to help ease manpower problems as the war in Ukraine continues

The Kremlin has been hit by sanctions since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, meaning that Vladimir Putin cannot afford the cost of the repair job for his massive war vessel

Ukrainian analysts have told Newsweek the move undoes a decade of democratic progress, although its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he backed a new draft law aimed at strengthening the independence the anti-corruption institutions. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian president's office and the Kremlin for comment.

President Vladimir Putin joined mourners on Thursday to say farewell to his former classmate Irina Podnosova, the head of Russia's Supreme Court, who died earlier this week aged 71.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling over a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump has changed his mind about sending weapons to Ukraine.

The intelligence community did not have any direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, but, at the "unusual" direction of then-President Obama,

EXCLUSIVE: Father Patrick Desbois said Putin's war "is undergirded by the lie that Ukrainians are Russian", and that the theft of Ukrainian children "is a key Russian objective".