Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

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The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) has placed U.S.-Europe relations under intense scrutiny, with experts calling it "a turning point" in the transatlantic relationship. With tensions rising ...

Putin has long framed the conflict as an existential battle against Ukrainian "neo-Nazis", drawing parallels with the Soviet Union's fight against Adolf Hitler's Germany in World War II.

“The Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, has made offensive statements, drawing outrageous parallels between Russia and Nazi Germany.” This was the reaction of Russian Foreign Ministry ...

"We explained today that the appearance of armed forces from the same NATO countries, but under a false flag, under the flag of the ... and France and Germany, which feared antagonising Russia. Russia ...

On a small stage in a school outside Moscow, a masked soldier presented Ivan with an army flag, a thank you gift signed by ...

Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, with Russian-backed separatists taking control of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of the eastern Donbas region later that same year. (This area can be ...

Balancing Ukraine’s sovereignty with Russia’s demand for its own “security guarantees” promises to be the hardest part of any negotiation. But experts see possible compromises. By Anton ...

On a small stage in a school outside Moscow, a masked soldier presented Ivan with an army flag, a thank you gift signed by Russian troops fighting in Ukraine to the 7-year-old who has sent dozens ...

The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden, most EU leaders and Ukraine cast Russia's war as a land grab aimed at restoring Russian power. Kyiv and some EU leaders say that if Putin wins ...