Kosovo has been recognized by roughly 100 UN member states since declaring independence in 2008, but it has never formally applied to join the United Nations. Here's the veto math that makes an application pointless.

Thirty years of frozen conflict didn't end Transnistria's separatism. A cut-off gas pipeline in 2025 is doing more to change that than any treaty.

Kaliningrad is a 5,830-square-mile piece of Russia surrounded by NATO and EU members, with no land connection to the Russian mainland. Here's the Potsdam-era history behind the exclave.

The Kremlin is weighing a full diesel-export ban as drone strikes deep inside Russia turn a battlefield tactic into a problem at the pump.

Nearly 200 drones were downed over Moscow as Kyiv hit the Gazprom Neft refinery again, and Zelensky said it is time the war ended.

With the Iran war cooling, the leaders meeting in Evian put Ukraine back at the center and pointed the next round of pressure at Russia's energy exports.

The frigate Admiral Grigorovich reportedly fired near a UK yacht south of the Isle of Wight. The UK said it is investigating an incident days after seizing a Russian tanker.

Flames hit the roof of the Assumption Cathedral at the 11th-century UNESCO site as Russia struck Kyiv overnight, the mayor said, with the casualty count still rising.

Rationed to 20 liters a week and watching pumps run empty, Russian-occupied Crimea is living through its worst fuel crisis since 2014 as Ukrainian drones close the peninsula's supply routes one by one.