The State Department has expressed its displeasure over Ukraine's recent attacks on the Russian port of Novorossiysk that have impacted U.S. oil interests in Kazakhstan.

Russia's development of the 9M729 prompted the US to quit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019, then a cornerstone of nuclear arms control.

The Trump administration has ordered Ukraine to rein in its long-range attacks on Russian infrastructure after strikes affected US investments.

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department told the Ukrainian government to refrain from hitting U.S. interests following a Ukrainian attack on the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea,

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia. Are we about to enter a new Cold ...

Backstairs meetings between the two leaders' proxies got leaked by European intelligence services (Photo by JIM WATSON and EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON,EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images) The recent Wall Street Journal article about the ...

By David Lawder and Ariane Luthi WASHINGTON/ZURICH, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury handed Swiss private bank MBaer Merchant Bank AG a potentially crippling blow on Thursday by threatening to sever its access to the U.

The US strategy of pressuring Ukraine in peace talks is failing, the European Union’s top diplomat said, arguing that President Donald Trump should instead lean on Russia.