With soaring inflation and the ruble dropping to one of its lowest levels against the dollar since President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine, this year Russians will have to pay more for the dish, which is traditionally served alongside caviar and tangerines, before the New Year is toasted in.

Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday one of its naval drones – the Magura V5 maritime drone – destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter and damaged another one in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday its forces hit a Russian oil depot in the Smolensk region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Tuesday that no one would give peace to his country as a gift, but he believed the United States would stand alongside Kyiv as it fights to stop Russia's 34-month invasion.

A third year of war in Ukraine drags on as the new year and the conflict's February anniversary approach. The war in 2024 saw major shifts on the battlefield and in Western politics.

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the research organization where we work, has been conducting national public opinion surveys since Ukraine gained independence, in 1991. Before the full-scale war,

Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed halting the delivery of U.

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine are set to end on New Year's Day, bringing down the curtain on Moscow's long period of dominance of supply in the European gas market. Russia's oldest gas export route to Europe - a pipeline dating back to Soviet days - was set to shut at the end of 2024,

President Joe Biden announced $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine, which is separate from the direct budget aid.

Biden's administration is working quickly to spend all the money it has available to help Kyiv fight off Russia before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in three weeks.

The Treasury Department also released an additional $3.4 billion in budget aid as the Biden administration rushes assistance to Kyiv in its final weeks in office.