The timing, the brevity, the sudden, unilateral nature of it all. If Ukraine’s allies needed proof of Moscow’s wild cynicism ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary truce in Ukraine, according to Russian media reports. This comes ...

Ukraine and Russia conducted a swap of more than 500 prisoners of war on Saturday, the latest in a series of exchanges since ...

It is unclear whether Kyiv has accepted the proposal, but Ukraine's foreign minister says Putin's words "cannot be trusted".