Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on Ukraine, peace, war and Trump.

European Union leaders have agreed to borrow cash to loan €90 billion to Ukraine to fund its war effort against Russia for ...

Putin has only used the "game-changing" nuclear-capable weapon once - in a "test" launch in November 2024 against the ...

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine, triggering the biggest ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who took part in the summit, urged the bloc to agree to use the Russian assets to provide the funds he said would allow Ukraine to keep fighting.

Europe’s 90-billion-euro interest-free loan to keep Ukraine’s economy and military from a budgetary blackhole through 2027 didn’t come about in the way some leaders wanted, but the fact it came about ...

The annual event gives ordinary Russians a chance to question their leader, with queries expected on an end to the Ukraine ...

Oil prices slumped below $60 a barrel this week as investors try to make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to end ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to send a signal to the United States and European powers on Friday over his ...

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...

The European official said the man accused of coordinating a plot to put explosives in packages on cargo planes, for example, ...

Euroclear, a securities depository in Belgium, holds most of the Russian assets immobilized in the EU. Estimates of the ...