Russia has responded after Donald Trump imposed sanctions on its biggest oil firms in a major shift of policy - and sign of frustration with Vladimir Putin. Follow the latest on the Ukraine war.

China's Foreign Ministry stated that pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not bring the end to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. — Ukrinform.

The US has announced new sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies, over continued fighting in Ukraine.

The leaders of China, North Korea and Russia stood shoulder to shoulder Wednesday as high-tech military hardware and thousands of marching

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced three bipartisan bills on Wednesday in an effort to tighten the screws on Moscow and its backers nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

I’m just back from Central Asia where I spent a fortnight travelling through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

China said today it “opposes” recent sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia’s two largest oil companies over Moscow’s war in Ukraine,

Despite these points, China’s role in supporting Russia is not a black-and-white issue for Europe. In fact, China poses a much more sophisticated hard security problem for NATO and Europe than Russia does. There are three main reasons why it is unwise to treat Russia and China as hard security actors in the same way.

MOSCOW and Beijing are unleashing a new kind of warfare on the West – and it’s waged not with bullets, but with bedsheets. US intelligence insiders say Russian and Chinese operatives