Russia-Ukraine War

U.S. officials said the weapon fired by Moscow at the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro was an experimental intermediate range ballistic missile.

The threat to the Ukrainian capital follows news Tuesday that Ukraine carried out its first strike on Russian territory with U.S.-supplied long-range weapons.

President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles, NBC’s Keir Simmons reports.

Moscow’s decision to lower the threshold for a nuclear attack came as the Kremlin responded furiously to the U.S. allowing Ukraine to strike inside Russia with American weapons.

Since the first year of the war, Ukrainian leaders have lobbied Western allies to allow them to use advanced weapons to strike key targets inside Russia. But their effect will depend on how they are used.

The decision allowing Ukraine to use the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs, for attacks farther into Russia comes as thousands of North Korean troops have been sent into a region.

Russia on Sunday launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, described by officials as the largest over the past months, targeting energy infrastructure and killing civilians.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be the first conversation with the sitting leader of a major Western power in nearly two years.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is determined in its final months to help Ukraine keep fighting its war with Russia next year.

Medical innovation, created here in Dallas is headed to Ukraine to help injured soldiers. NBC 5 health reporter Bianca Castro explains the 3D surgical implants that will help rebuild the faces of Ukrainian soldiers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met face-to-face with Donald Trump on Friday with public tensions rising between the two over Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces.

Russia has a long history of spying on the U.S. from the relative safety of Mexico City, dating back to the 1980s.

The United States and Great Britain have pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats.

Two ballistic missiles hit a military educational facility and a nearby hospital in the city of Poltava, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region.

The Kremlin’s crackdown against opposition activists, independent journalists and government critics has intensified since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

The F-16 fighter jets that have been delivered to Kyiv by Western countries will be flying sorties in Ukrainian skies and helping the country’s current fleet of Soviet-era jets to counter Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine’s largest music festival struck a different chord this year. Gone were the international headliners, the massive performance halls and the hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile.