Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that he was ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio but that Russia would not abandon its core conditions for ending the Ukraine war.

Lavrov ‘ready’ to meet US officials after reports of rift with Putin - Russia launched 450 drones and 45 missiles to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as Zelensky reiterated his call for sanction

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded Kyiv withdraw troops from the entirety of the four regions Moscow claims as part of Russia: Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine – which make up the Donbas – plus Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he is ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in person to discuss the war in Ukraine — which he called the "Ukraine issue" — but reiterated a hardline stance on Russian interests that must be addressed for Moscow to end its war.

Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday. The report comes as Russia

AS the dust settles in Moscow following reports of Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man falling out of favour, someone may already be eyeing their seat at the Kremlin high table. Russia’s

The Trump-Putin summit was dropped after a preparatory call between Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made clear there would be little progress towards peace in Ukraine, and definitely no ceasefire as the White House demanded. “There is nothing true in these reports,” Peskov said, originally in Russian, state news agency TASS reported.

In our news wrap Thursday, European officials followed Washington’s lead in approving economic measures aimed at pressuring Russia to end its war in Ukraine, Lithuania's president said Russian military planes violated his country's airspace,