President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine is sending reinforcements to defend two front-line towns in the Donetsk region that he called among the bloodiest in the fight against Russia’s invasion. Earlier Sunday, Kyiv rejected as “nonsense” a Russian government claim that Kremlin troops killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers in an overnight strike.

• January 9, 2023

NATO won’t let Serbia redeploy its security units in Kosovo, turning down a request made last month amid soaring tensions between the local Serb minority and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian authorities, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says.

• January 9, 2023

Military bloggers blast commanders for shirking responsibility

• January 4, 2023

NATO peacekeepers helped remove road blocks in Kosovo that ethnic Serbs had erected in their weeks-long standoff with the largely ethnic-Albanian authorities.

• January 4, 2023

Kotin says Zaporizhzhia security zone is no longer plausible

• January 4, 2023

Ethnic tensions along Kosovo’s eastern border appear to be easing amid fears of an armed conflict.

• December 30, 2022

The Russian leader says he is expecting the Chinese president to make a state visit to Moscow in 2023.

• December 30, 2022

Armenia has accused Russian forces deployed along the blockaded Lachin corridor of failing to fulfil their duties.

• December 30, 2022