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Donald Trump, former president of the United States, joined Hannity on Tuesday to sound off on the Russia-Ukraine war and the Chinese balloon incident.

CBS News was granted access to Ukraine's 209th Battalion as they battle Russian forces on the front lines in the Kharkiv region. Ramy Inocencio reports from eastern Ukraine.

Officials say a Russian court has convicted a single father over social media posts criticizing the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison

A Russian court on Tuesday convicted a single father over social media posts criticizing the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to two years in prison — a case brought to the attention of authorities by his daughter’s drawings against the invasion at school, according to his lawyer and activists. The case of Alexei Moskalyov, who was indicted and tried in his hometown of Yefremov, about 300 kilometers (about 186 miles) south of Moscow, has drawn international attention and is a grim indication that the Kremlin is intensifying its crackdown on dissent, targeting more people and handing out harsher punishments for any expression of criticism of the war. Moskalyov was accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian army, a criminal offense in accordance to a law Russian authorities adopted shortly after sending troops into Ukraine.

A leading international rights group has decried what it said were double standards by Western countries that have rallied behind a “robust response” to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but remain “lukewarm” on issues of human rights violations in the Middle East

The first 18 of the cutting-edge tanks are sent, amid reports UK Challenger 2s have also arrived.

Sen. Josh Hawley said he hopes that appointing a watchdog to oversee U.S. aid to Ukraine should not "controversial," and said he expects his proposal to get a vote in the Senate.

European Council President Charles Michel has pledged to continue supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression “for as long as necessary,” adding that EU leaders will “massively ramp up” ammunition production to send to the war-torn country

European Council President Charles Michel has pledged to continue supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression “for as long as necessary,” adding that EU leaders will “massively ramp up” ammunition production to send to the war-torn country.

Emergency officials in Ecuador say at least 16 people died and 16 others were injured after a massive landslide

Ukraine release video showing the destruction in the city of Bakhmut where Ukraine and Russian forces have been fighting for months.

The British government is pushing its contentious migration bill forward in Parliament, despite a call from Europe’s top human rights organization to block the legislation

England and Portugal have made it two wins out of two at the start of European Championship qualifying as their star players continued their record-breaking streaks.

Kyiv has dismissed previous claims that it has attacked Russian civilian targets with explosive drones.

The Tunisian Coast Guard said Sunday that 29 people were dead after three boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy capsized along the Tunisian coast.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will station tactical nuclear weapons on Belarus, a move Ukraine says the United Nations security council must intervene to stop.

President Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

The levelling up secretary blames war in Ukraine and pandemic, but denies government is at fault.

The supplier launches 12-month tariff of £2,275, as falling gas prices finally start feeding through to bills.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had moved 10 nuclear-capable warplanes to Belarus, which shares a border with northern Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he planned to strategically place nuclear weapons in allied Belarus as retaliation against Western support for Ukraine.

Putin said the plan was in response to Britain's decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.

It comes ahead of a package of measures on energy security, which the BBC understands will be announced on Thursday.

India has relied on Russian military equipment for decades but has recently moved to try and limit that partnership, instead turning to the United States, France and Israel.

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The top commander of Ukraine’s military said Saturday that his forces are pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut

The United Nations says Russia carried out the majority of violations, including arbitrary detention, sexual violence and brutal treatment of prisoners of war.

Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark have agreed to operate their national air forces jointly, enhancing European air defenses and collective security in the face of Russian aggression, Reuters reported on March 24.

Russia’s space agency says three astronauts who were supposed to leave the International Space Station this month will be brought back to Earth in late September

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven Belarusian elections officials, two state-owned automotive manufacturers and President Alexander Lukashenko’s aircraft.

President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are celebrating the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowing that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox Nation's "Piers Morgan Uncensored" that previous comments regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine had been "mischaracterized."

Police say a man has driven into several pedestrians in a parking garage at the Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany and there were some injuries

The Ukrainian army is using Soviet-era helicopters on missions to the front lines in the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Each day, they might fly three or four sorties, says the commander, whose two-crew Mi-24 helicopter, built about 40 years ago, is older than he is. The conflict in Ukraine is largely an artillery war, with territory being fought for inch by inch under a barrage of shells and missiles. “The importance of the helicopters is huge,” said the commander, who is part of Ukraine’s 12th Army Aviation Brigade.

It was the 19th-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz who described war as “the realm of uncertainty”. In Ukraine, the fog of war is thick, and growing ever thicker. It’s impossible to gauge the true state of the battles raging in the east of the country. For some, Ukraine’s heroic defence against the renewed Russian offensive marks a victory of sorts. For others, the high losses they are sustaining are indicative of Russia’s ability to remobilise and regroup.

A Russian court has issued an arrest warrant for an opposition activist on charges of disparaging the military, and authorities have declared other activists and bloggers “foreign agents” amid efforts to muzzle criticism of Russia’s action in Ukraine

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance needs to prepare for a prolonged war in Ukraine by ramping up its defense spending beyond the 2% GDP pledge made nearly a decade ago.

Reuters/Misha Japaridze/Pool/File PhotoYevgeny Prigozhin is preparing to pull his Wagner Group mercenaries’ attention away from the war in Ukraine, according to a Bloomberg report that cites sources familiar with the matter.His current plan is to focus the private mercenaries’ focus back to countries in Africa, such as Sudan, Mali, and the Central African Republic, where Wagner has deployed forces. On Monday, Wagner posted a recruitment notice offering deployments to African countries would last

The Prince of Wales met Ukrainians who have fled the war on the second day of his visit to Poland.

Parliament plays host to two grandmasters - and some keen MP amateurs - to show support for Ukraine.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilda to the capital Pretoria, lauded the European country for its assistance to Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilda to the capital Pretoria, lauded the European country for its assistance to Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pentagon leaders have told Congress that the U.S. military must be ready for possible confrontation with China.

Dmitry Medvedev, a Vladimir Putin loyalist, said Thursday that any attempt to arrest Putin following an arrest warrant from the ICC would amount to an act of war.

After dismissing Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine as a "territorial dispute," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has now called him a "war criminal."

British police have charged a 28-year-old man with two counts of attempted murder after men were set on fire near mosques

Myron and his mother Kateryna fled missiles in Ukraine and "feel like family" to their UK sponsors.

Russia has issued a full-throated warning that the West risks further escalation in Ukraine after the British government announced it's providing depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine.

Russia threatened to escalate attacks in Ukraine after the British government announced it would provide a type of munition to Ukraine that Moscow falsely claims has nuclear components. The British defense ministry on Monday confirmed it would provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Such rounds were developed by the U.S. during the Cold War to destroy Soviet tanks, including the same T-72 tanks that Ukraine now faces in its push to break through a stalemate in the east.

At one point during this week’s Kremlin meetings, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin that they were driving global changes unseen in more than a century

Pakistan’s elections oversight body has delayed elections for a regional assembly after the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif refused to provide the necessary funds and polling staff citing financial constraints

The Prince of Wales meets British and Polish troops an hour's drive from the border with Ukraine.

The U.K. clapped back at Russian President Vladimir Putin after he appeared to ramp up the threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine in response to ammunition London pledged to Kyiv.

Xi Jinping needs Russia in China's competition with the United States, but also wants to present himself as a champion of the Global South.

Flanked by close ally Russian President Vladmir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping ended his three-day state visit to Moscow with a joint statement on the war in Ukraine. But as Xi was leaving for Beijing, which has cast itself as a peacemaker in the conflict, Russia struck Ukraine with drones and missiles. Ramy Inocencio reports.

Russian forces target several Ukrainian cities, while explosions are heard in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russia's Defense Ministry says fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley have spoken to their Russian counterparts about the destruction of a U.S. drone over the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian fighter jets.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase U.K. military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the challenge posed by China.

A pastor from Ukraine is raising awareness in the New River Valley about what’s happening one year after the war started.

The White House says that U.S. intelligence officials have determined that people with ties to the Russian intelligence community are planning to stage protests in Moldova in hopes of toppling the Moldovan government.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to step up efforts to tackle Channel migrant crossings.

A group of 42 retired Canadian Olympians are urging their country’s Olympic leaders to take a stand against Russians participating in next year’s Paris Games.

A new United Nations report says acute malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25% in the past two years in 12 countries hard hit by rising food prices fueled by the fighting in Ukraine.

In his first news conference since taking office, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang lashed out at the United States over deteriorating bilateral relations and Washington's support for Taiwan.

Estonians have cast ballots in a parliamentary election where initial results suggested the center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.

Liberty University students came together to pack 270,000 meals for people overseas.

Scientists are studying hundreds of dogs at the Chernobyl disaster site that have managed to survive in extremely harsh conditions.

The Swiss government says Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke briefly in New Delhi at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on China to refrain from sending weapons to Russia and instead use its influence to press Moscow for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.

Top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations have ended a contentious meeting in New Delhi with no consensus on the Ukraine war, as discussions of the war and China’s widening global influence dominated much of the talks.

Fractured East-West relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine and increasing concerns about China’s global aspirations are set to dominate what is expected to be a highly contentious meeting of foreign ministers from the world’s largest industrialized and developing nations this week in India.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a brief tour of Central Asia in Uzbekistan before heading to India for what is expected to be a contentious Ukraine-dominated meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20.

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, is due in Beijing to begin a three-day state visit.

China has accused the U.S. of “outright bullying and double standards" in leveling what it called “illegal" sanctions on Chinese companies as part of U.S. actions against Russia’s Wagner Group and related companies and individuals.

The CIA director says U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by 2027” to invade Taiwan.

CIA Director William Burns says Russian President Vladimir Putin is being “too confident” in his military’s ability to grind Ukraine into submission.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that after Russia suspended its participation in the New START treaty, it would “take into account” the nuclear weapons capabilities not only of the United States but of other NATO countries such as France and Britain.

Ireland's prime minister says the U.K. and the European Union are “inching” closer to agreeing on a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit dispute in Northern Ireland.

A meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies has ended without a consensus, with Russia and China objecting to the description of the war in Ukraine in a final document.

Thousands of people have protested in Berlin to condemn Germany’s supply of arms to Ukraine and call for peace talks to end the war.

Friday marked one year since Russia invaded Ukraine.

A “people’s court” without legal powers has confirmed an indictment against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression in Ukraine and called for his arrest.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Central and South Asia next week for international talks that will put him in the same room as his Chinese and Russian counterparts.

The Pentagon is announcing a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine.

Tensions over Russia's war on Ukraine have flared at meetings of finance ministers and central bank chiefs in India.

Friday marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine.

In New York, far from her home in northern Ukraine, Valeriya Roshkovan has tried to do what she can to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of her country.

Germany's natural gas reserves are abundant, and prices are down.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. will push for tougher, better enforced sanctions against Russia and is hoping for a “fully funded" package of financial support for Ukraine.

NATO’s chief says the military alliance has seen “some signs” that China may be planning to support Russia in its war in Ukraine, and strongly urged Beijing to desist from what would be a violation of international law.

Slovenia’s iconic band Laibach will hold a concert in Ukraine’s capital next month, saying this will make them the first foreign band to perform a full show in Kyiv since the beginning of Russia's invasion last February.

Russia and China are showcasing their deepening ties in Moscow meetings others are watching for signs that Beijing might offer the Kremlin stronger support for its war in Ukraine.

Russia has clashed with the United States and other Western nations over the Kremlin’s call for a U.N. investigation of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Western Europe.

President Joe Biden gave a speech at the Royal Palace Gardens in Warsaw at about 11:30 a.m.

The Biden administration has averted a potential diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements at the United Nations that had threatened to overshadow U.S. efforts to focus the world body on Russia’s war with Ukraine ahead of this week’s one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says U.S. intelligence suggests China is considering providing arms and ammunition to Russia.