KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops bore down on Ukraine’s capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the government quarter, in an invasion of a democratic country that...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the country’s parliament on Tuesday for a permission to use military force outside the country. Putin’s letter to the upper house of parliament...