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The UN General Assembly will not likely vote on a resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine until March 24, delaying the expected vote by one day.

Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, says Russia is stalling in talks on a cease-fire in Ukraine and won't take the discussions seriously until it has reached its goals with its unprovoked invasion.

Award-winning Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, a freelance contributor to RFE/RLs North.Realities project, has left her native country for Latvia amid a pressure campaign by authorities over her activities as a journalist.

RFE/RL freelance correspondent Polina Efimova has been detained in the Russian city of Taganrog as she was talking to refugees from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is under siege by Russian armed forces.

Madeleine Albright, a native of Czechoslovakia who fled Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe to become the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died at age 84.

The West hit Russia hard with sanctions after Moscow invaded Ukraine last month. Now Russians are getting worried about spiking drug prices and shortages of prescription medications.

WARSAW — Anhelina sat and prayed in the basement of her home in Bucha after Russian forces overran her small town north of Kyiv this month after fierce fighting. “There was no light, water, or gas. It was impossible to go out because they shoot. People were being shot around the house, which is...

Ukraine's president has compared the Russian assault on Mariupol to the WWII-era Nazi siege of Leningrad, a 900-day nightmare that left some 900,000 civilians dead. Few people are alive now who experienced the horrors of those times, but three who did have spoken out against the Russian invasion.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has announced a new 35-hour curfew for the Ukrainian capital from later on March 21.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has summoned U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan over recent comments by President Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin "a war criminal" for Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.