Tetiana Hranchak lived in Ukraine when Russia first invaded. Now Hranchak is a visiting assistant professor at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She hopes people will pay more attention to the war.

Oil prices held at two-month lows on Wednesday as a surprise build in U.S. fuel stockpiles signalled demand weakness and a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine continued to weigh on prices.

Washington led an international campaign for tough economic penalties after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens of countries have punished Russian banks, businesses and oligarchs. They froze $300 billion of Russia’s assets, barred it from much of the global financial system and restricted what it could buy and sell.

When it comes to the war in Ukraine, President Trump finds common cause with the world’s outlier states and stands against traditional U.S. allies like Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy.

The United States voted against a Ukrainian-drafted United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine.

As it approaches the third-year mark of the Russia-Ukraine war, many people throughout Western New York who have family and friends in Ukraine spent the weekend

President Donald Trump has been able to count the Rupert Murdoch -controlled media empire as an ally for the past decade – but the New York Post and Fox News Radio drew a red line on Friday, pushing back on the president’s defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Italian Air Force jets had to escort an American Airlines plane to Rome because of a security concern, which ultimately proved to be “non-credible.” The flight was on its way from New York to New Delhi, India, on Sunday when it was abruptly diverted, causing panic in the cabin.

Russia will not be readmitted into the Group of Seven nations as U.S. president Donald Trump has requested, German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies told Reuters in an interview.