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The U.S. State Department says Russia has expelled Bart Gorman, the deputy chief of mission (DCM) at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. A spokesman for the embassy confirmed the expulsion on February 17 but gave no details on why the move was taken. “Russia’s action against our DCM was unprovoked and we consider this an...

The United States has rejected Russia’s demand to halt further NATO expansion eastward, but offered what it called a “serious diplomatic path” to resolve a heated confrontation between Moscow and the West amid a Russian military buildup near Ukraine. Washington handed over its written response to Russia’s security demands on January 26, which U.S. Secretary...

President Joe Biden predicted Russia will make a move on Ukraine but said President Vladimir Putin likely hasn’t decided and the country would face severe economic consequences should a military offensive occur. “I’m not so sure he is certain what he is going to do. My guess is he will move in. He has to...

European Union leaders are expected to warn Moscow that hostile action against Ukraine would trigger unprecedented sanctions as they meet in Brussels amid concerns that Russia’s military buildup near the border could prepare for an invasion of Ukraine – something Russian officials have denied. Besides tensions over the Ukraine-Russia border situation, the December 16 summit...

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7) have warned Russia that it faces “massive consequences” and “severe” costs if it launches a military attack on Ukraine. The warning came on December 12 during a G-7 meeting in the English city of Liverpool where delegates said they were united in their condemnation of Russia’s military...

U.S. President Joe Biden says he hopes to announce a meeting soon between the United States, its major allies in Europe and Russia for talks on Moscow’s concerns about NATO expansion. Mr. Biden said he hoped to announce the meeting by December 10 and said it would involve envoys from at least four major NATO...

As relations deteriorate, Moscow Expels U.S. Diplomats Ukraine says it will ask NATO to boost military cooperation with Kyiv and prepare economic sanctions as part of a “deterrence package” to prevent Russia from attacking it as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington has serious concerns that Russia could be planning an invasion. The...

Talk of war is again in the air. When Russia massed thousands of troops along its border with Ukraine last spring, reports and rumors swirled that the Kremlin might launch a big new offensive seven years after it seized control of Crimea and fomented a separatist war in the Donbas region that continues to this...

Germany’s federal energy regulator said it temporarily halted the approval process for the controversial Nord Stream 2 underseas gas pipeline that aims to bring Russian gas to Germany. The Federal Network Agency, or Bundesnet­zagentur, announced in a statement on November 16 that it had suspended the certification procedure for the recently completed pipeline after concluding...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba have signed an updated text to a charter on a strategic partnership that reaffirms that the relationship between the United States and Ukraine is based on shared and common values. The document provides for cooperation between the two countries on security and...

Most of the ammunition and nearly all the weapons used by Ukrainian separatist forces were produced in what is today Russia, according to a detailed weapons-tracing study. Kyiv and its Western backers have long accused Moscow of transferring arms to separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, fueling a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people...