More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Head of the Estonian Defence Forces' Intelligence Centre, has reported that after a limited success in Donetsk Oblast, Russia began reorganising its forces. Source: Kiviselg ...

A new map has shown the range of Russia's most powerful nuclear weapons as tensions between Moscow and the West intensify. Speaking on Sky News, military expert Michael Clarke showed a map ...

Russian President Vladamir Putin referred to territories in east Ukraine as "Novorussia," or "New Russia," and asserted Russian ties to the area, in a televised question-and-answer show.

Russia and Ukraine were part of the 15 Soviet republics that made up the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared independence on August 24. The map below ...