Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet Monday in Istanbul to exchange their plans for how to end the three-year war, Europe's largest conflict since World War II, after Kyiv says it struck

A truck pulled in, and drones flew out of it.” From an airbase near Murmansk, in Russia’s far north, came similar stories: “The driver’s running around...drones are flying from his truck toward the base.

The model works well for the Kremlin because it allows it to easily recruit freelancers, or “disposable agents” as they’re sometimes called.

A military official, who spoke with the Associated Press on condition of anonymity to disclose operational details, said the far-reaching attack took more than a year and a half to execute and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

From Athens to New York, oil tanker companies from Group of Seven nations are flocking back to the Russian oil trade.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia needs to “strangle” Western tech companies still operating in the country. The comments come after a Monday meeting at the Kremlin where a businessman claimed Russian consumers are still using Microsoft and Zoom products in the country.

Putin said he wanted to suffocate the firms after a Russian business leader complained that Microsoft and Zoom were eating into the local market.

Western shipping and insurance companies are massively returning to transporting russian oil after several months of a "hole" in the tanker market, which