The missing American who’d traveled to Ukraine years ago to aid Donbas was found dead in the country’s war-torn eastern ...

Texas should secede. Alaska should come home to Mother Russia. It’s presidential election time again in America, and Kremlin ...

Ten years after witnessing Russian-backed separatists attempt to seize her native city of Kharkiv, photographer Olga Ivashchenko returned to witness what may be the beginning of another attempt by ...

An estimated 1,500 Russian troops have been stationed in Transnistria since a two-year conflict between Russian-backed ...

Stanislav Aseyev, a former RFE/RL contributor, was held captive by Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region for 2 1/2 years. After being freed in a prisoner swap, he returned to ...

Pro-Russian separatist soldiers appear to have attacked Ukrainian positions on motorcycles. A Russian-backed battalion from the breakaway Luhansk People's Republic posted the video. Russian forces ...

Russia seized Crimea a decade ago. Russian-backed separatists have been fighting in the Donbas for several years, and Russia took control of some areas of the Donbas after invading Ukraine more ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A former Russian tycoon jailed in Azerbaijan on charges stemming from his time as a top separatist ...

North Korea has become one of the few nations in the world to recognize the independence of two Russia-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in support of Moscow's war against its neighbor.

Video posted online showed the aftermath of an explosion in a square in western Donetsk Thirteen people have been killed and others wounded in a series of explosions in the separatist-run city of ...

But Putin's moves, made as shelling continued in those areas, could be a precursor to the Kremlin sending in troops and weapons to support Russian-backed separatists. Doing so is sure to deepen ...

Defensive lines that had held for years against Russian-backed separatists have been broken in recent weeks. The fighting has been fierce, with intense artillery bombardments, the use of ...