European leaders are set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia's war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, while a top Ukrainian delegation prepares for direct talks with Washington.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told a group of European ambassadors that the continent couldn’t match the Russian defense industry’s output, and the time for settling had arrived.

Senior Pentagon officials have arrived in Ukraine to "discuss efforts to end the war" with Russia, the US military says. US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held talks with Ukrainian P

Ukraine launched US-supplied ATACMS missiles into Russian territory this week — the first confirmed strikes of their kind — after Washington quietly allowed Kyiv to use the long-range weapons for attacks across the border,

The US government jolted energy markets when it announced sanctions on Russia’s two biggest crude oil producers on Oct. 22. All eyes are now on how global oil supply and prices will react after the measures took effect on Nov.

Here is a look at how U.S. sanctions on Russian oil firms Rosneft and Lukoil, which take effect at 1701 GMT on Friday, may affect the Russian foreign currency market.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spent weeks trading threats to restart nuclear tests, an escalation kicked off by Putin’s boasts about tests of the Poseidon nuclear powered missile in late October.