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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP)

War fears grow as Putin orders troops to eastern Ukraine

Underscoring the urgency, the UN Security Council held a nighttime emergency meeting at the request of Ukraine, the US...

22 Feb 2022 5:00 AM GMT

The summit of both leaders will be held only if Moscow does not invade Ukraine. (File photo/Getty Images)

Joe Biden agrees to meet Putin, on a condition, as Ukraine tensions...

Both leaders have said yes in principle to the summit, proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron

21 Feb 2022 5:19 AM GMT

A Ukrainian soldier looks at a hole from a shell fired by pro-Russian separatists in the village of Novoluhanske, Luhansk region, Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

India advises students, kin of envoys to leave Ukraine

Amid the crisis, Air India is operating special flights between Kyiv and New Delhi on February 22, 24 and 26

20 Feb 2022 6:30 PM GMT

Russian marines take their position during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus. (AP)

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy calls on Putin to meet as tensions soar

The number of Russian ground units, the battalion tactical groups, in the border area had grown to as many as 125, up...

20 Feb 2022 6:46 AM GMT

President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Joe Biden now convinced' Russia will launch invasion of Ukraine

Biden reiterated his threat of crushing economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia if it does invade, and pressed...

19 Feb 2022 5:58 AM GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, arrives to attend a military drill outside the city of Rivne, northern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP)

Russia adds troops near Ukraine despite drawdown claims: US

Western allies maintained that the threat of an attack was strong, with an estimated 150,000-plus Russian troops...

17 Feb 2022 6:07 AM GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP)

Russia says it pulls back more troops amid Ukraine standoff

Russia has massed about 150,000 troops east, north and south of Ukraine, sparking Western concerns it was planning an...

16 Feb 2022 8:28 PM GMT

US President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Joe Biden sees chance for Ukraine diplomacy, keeps pressure on Moscow

We are ready to respond decisively to a Russian attack on Ukraine, which is still very much a possibility, Biden said

16 Feb 2022 5:00 AM GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Russian Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia says it's ready to keep talking about Ukraine crisis

The comments seemed designed to send a message to the world about Putin's own position and offered some hope that war...

15 Feb 2022 7:23 AM GMT

US service members walk on the tarmac as they deploy to Europe, February 14, 2021, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. - US service members based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are preparing deploy to Europe as the crisis between Russia and Ukraine escalates. (Allison Joyce / AFP)

US calls China's 'tacit support' for Russia on Ukraine 'deeply...

Western powers fear an imminent Russian invasion of the ex-Soviet state

15 Feb 2022 5:05 AM GMT

An instructor shows a woman how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as members of a Ukrainian far-right group train, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

US: Over 130,000 Russian troops now staged outside Ukraine

Moscow's forces are massing on Ukraine's north, east and south in what the Kremlin insists are military exercises

14 Feb 2022 5:04 AM GMT

An Ukrainian serviceman flashes the V for victory sign during unpacking shipment of military aid delivered as part of the USAs security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

New Zealand Foreign Minister urging citizens to leave Ukraine...

The minister said the country does not have a diplomatic mission in Ukraine, and the assistance that can be provided to...

12 Feb 2022 8:12 AM GMT