BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the admission of six new countries from next year as the club of large and populous emerging economies seeks to reshape the global order. The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- agreed at their ann...

In the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, 15 kilometres from the positions held by Russian forces, an artillery unit from the 58th motorised infantry brigade...

Officials in Ukraine are bracing for one of the heaviest battles to come for the Russian occupied province of Kherson. Ukraine's counter-offensive reportedly hasn't gained much ground since early October, and Russia's military is preparing for any advance...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus and Russia will deploy a joint military task force in response to what he called an aggravation of tension on the country's western borders, the state-run Belta news agency reported on Monday. Lukashenko...

kraine said Thursday it had recaptured swathes of fresh territory from Russian troops as Kyiv urged Europe to help its forces expel Moscow's army once and fo...

Ukrainian forces have broken through Moscow’s defenses in the strategic southern Kherson region, the Russian military acknowledged Monday, an achievement that delivers a sharp blow to one of the four areas in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Ukrainian troops continued to push forward Monday with their offensive that has embarrassed Moscow, with Kyiv officials and foreign observers hinting at new gains in the strategic southern region of Kherson that the Kremlin wants to annex.

Russian men have been fleeing in large numbers since the Kremlin announced a partial military draft to sustain its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Turkey, where some 50,000 Russian nationals have applied for residency since February, is one of their desti...

The New York Times obtained intercepted calls made by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, including damning accounts of the execution of civilians. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.

The British military said Ukrainian advances near the eastern hub of Lyman have been slower than previously. “Units are making slow advances on at least two axes east from the line of the Oskil and Siverskyy Donets rivers, where forces had consolidated fo...

A volunteer organisation run by ex-soldiers, Mozart says it wants to save lives in Ukraine by offering aid and military training -- choosing its name as a "tongue in cheek" nod to notorious Russian paramilitary group Wagner. The two might both be named fo...

A group of young Ukrainian 'geeks' make drones in the basement of a house near the Donbas frontline. A short distance from their base and less than two kilometres from the Russian lines, a navigator and a pilot prepare a drone to drop a bomb on Russian po...

FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg and Gwendoline Debono meet traumatised residents of Ukraine's Izium as emergency workers continue to exhume bodies of civilians fo...

Hungary is no longer a "full democracy" and the EU needs to do everything to bring it back into line with European values, the European Parliament said Thursday.

Moscow has been forced to pull back troops from swathes of the northeast, particularly in the Kharkiv region, following Kyiv's dramatic assault since the beginning of September to wrest back terrain. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from the retaken cit...