American Committee for US-Russia Accord

The Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe is raising the alarm about a potential breakdown of central heating systems across war-torn eastern Ukraine.

A military conflict there has killed over 8,000 people and damaged crucial infrastructure including water works.

On September 16, President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree naming 388 foreign persons who are banned from travel to Ukraine. The published list of banned persons was compiled by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. They are deemed to be threats to the interests and national security of Ukraine.

The Russian President — with his expansionist worldview, Cold War-style mindset, KGB roots, tough-guy stunts and implacable anti-Americanism — makes the quintessential campaign trail scoundrel.

This year, as Russian cargo planes began flying military gear into Syria, Defense Secretary Ash Carter was in St. Louis, touring a plant of defense-contracting giant Boeing Co.

The shift in styles means the Pentagon has taken a back seat to Secretary of State John Kerry in shaping relations with Russia—forgoing an important connection that in the past has been used to defuse tensions or express American discontent.

Even as the EU mobilizes to fight Russian propaganda, European governments are fighting each other over the best way to go about it.

A new effort by Brussels to monitor and respond to the perceived bias of Kremlin-controlled media such as Russia 24 or Sputnik has exposed familiar fissures on the Continent.

The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Thursday urged Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to restore trust between the United States and Russia a day ahead of their first meeting in Hamburg.

Ukrainian separatist leaders say their hopes of full integration with Russia or greater independence are fading as the Kremlin tightens the reins on their rebellion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears unwilling to risk broadening his conflict with the U.S. and European Union over Ukraine, senior separatist officials said in interviews this month, meaning the rebel regions’ future is more likely to resemble Transnistria, the Russian-backed breakaway area of Moldova, whose fate is still unresolved more than two decades after fighting subsided.

Ukraine’s government has stepped up last-minute lobbying because of growing concern that lawmakers won’t back an accord to restructure $18 billion of foreign debt.

Government officials have met with ruling and opposition parties before a vote Thursday that’s supposed to give final approval to the debt deal, according to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. There are risks that the legislation will fail, according to a person familiar with the restructuring, who asked not to be named because the details are private. Another person familiar with the situation put the chances of approval at 50-50.