During a press briefing on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi stated that European leaders should respectfully acknowledge Ukraine's role in the victory over Nazism in WWII. Tykhyi noted that the Kremlin's aggression against Ukraine has tarnished the memory of the allied struggle against Nazism and stripped Russia of its moral

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday he would attend World War Two commemorations in Moscow in May as he accepted an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fico, whose government has sought to improve relations with Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine,

Slovakia's Ukraine-skeptic Prime Minister Robert Fico accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow next May, Fico announced on Nov. 27.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised US President-elect Donald Trump as an “intelligent and experienced” politician capable of finding “solutions,” as tensions between Moscow and the West ramp up over the war in Ukraine.

Putin claimed that “uncivilized means of struggle were used against Trump” more than once and does not believe the president-elect is currently safe as he criticized the “hu

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