This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

While Moscow has singled out Britain for particularly severe opprobium, it has ramped up its rhetoric against the European Union and French President ... at least the Crimean War of 1853-1856 ...

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Sir Keir and French president Emmanuel ... handed sovereignty over the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “We’ve always been clear that how, and on what ...

“One of the first steps toward fully ending the war could be ending strikes on energy ... facility in the Krasnodar region bordering the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, several ...

The White House has said a peace deal to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine has “never been closer” ahead of Donald Trump ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosted a conference call for the ‘coalition of the willing’ over the weekend (Leon Neal/PA) PA Wire Sir Keir and French president Emmanuel Macron have been ...

The agreements were negotiated in the Belarusian capital amid a war between Kremlin-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government, and Moscow’s unilateral seizure of the Crimean Peninsula.

“This call brought to light how difficult of an interlocutor Russia is going to be and the general unwillingness of Russia to talk about making real progress in stopping this war,” she sai ...

In that call, the Prime Minister told Mr Trump that Ukraine must be put in the “strongest possible position” in order to secure a “just and lasting peace” in the war with Russia.