On December 1, 1991, the people of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly 92% to 8% to be an independent country, no longer a part of the Soviet Union (which soon dissolved on December 26, 1991). From December ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, despite US President Donald Trump’s promise to end the conflict within 24 hours of his ...

Putin is interested in 'fundamentally changing borders in Europe and restoring old Soviet Union within borders of old Soviet ...

Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted on Sept. 19 to rename 327 settlements that had names related to the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. Ukraine's parliament outlawed most Soviet and ...

Crimea had been under Russian administration for centuries, yet the Soviet Union abruptly reassigned it to Ukraine in 1954. The stated reasons sounded symbolic and ceremonial, but the deeper motives ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on February 24, 2022. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia in a pre-dawn attack. Up to 190,000 Russian troops were positioned near Ukraine's borders, ...

(CNN) — Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German ...

That's partly because they can get more bullets when they attack a Russian position. Ammunition and other supplies from the West have dried up, leaving Ukraine running short. An American veteran ...

SIMFEROPOL, UKRAINE - MARCH 18: Six years on from the day Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty of accession to absorb Crimea in the Russian Federation on March 18, 2020 in Simferopol, ...

When Inna Faliks fled the Soviet Union with her family at the age of 10, she carried precious cargo: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. The subversive fantasy recasts the tale of Faust's ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. envoys are in Berlin for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to ...