The Kremlin has dismissed statements that Russia was open to European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine. When asked about the possible deployment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to make a ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

After the Kremlin’s decision in September 2022 to illegally annex four regions of Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — Zelenskyy enacted a decree declaring that holding ...