Media advocacy is "crucial" for American detainees overseas, one expert said.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is facing 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage. His friends are now speaking out as the White House calls for his release.

President Joe Biden spoke out about the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia on accusations of spying.

Estonia says Russia is expelling an Estonian diplomat from Moscow in a tit for tat move following a similar action by Tallinn

A group of lawyers and diplomats are trying to kick Russia out of the UN, as the country gets ready to assume the UN Security Council presidency.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is accused of trying to obtain classified information for the U.S. government — an allegation the White House called "ridiculous."

Evan Gershkovich from The Wall Street Journal was detained in Ekaterinburg, Russia said Thursday.

A U.S.-based nonprofit is providing life-changing prosthetic limbs to Ukrainian soldiers who lost arms or legs while defending their country against Russian forces.

Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was arrested for allegedly collecting state secrets for the United States.

A top Russian diplomat says Russia will continue to give the U.S. advance notice about its missile tests despite suspending the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries

The Wall Street Journal has said it “stands in solidarity with Evan and his family” and that it denies any allegations of spying from Russia’s FSB intelligence agency.

Russia's FSB intelligence agency said on Thursday it had detained a journalist working for The Wall Street Journal on spying charges.

Four former bankers with the Swiss affiliate of a key Russian bank have been found guilty of failing to properly check accounts opened in the name of a Russian cellist with longtime ties to President Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin suspended all notifications that are required under the "New Start Treaty" that involves nuclear weapons.

The head of the U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog is warning of the danger of a catastrophic accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant because of increased fighting in the area

Russia’s prosecution of a single father whose daughter drew an antiwar sketch at school elicited outrage from the European Union, even as the man, who fled house arrest before the verdict was announced, remained at large

A Russian diplomat says Moscow has suspended sharing any information about its nuclear forces with the U.S., including notifications about missile tests as envisioned by a U.S.-Russian treaty that the Kremlin has suspended

India will continue to maintain ties to both Russia and the West amid the war in Ukraine, experts say, resisting a U.S. push to oppose Moscow while calling for "peace"

Some Russian athletes can soon return to international sports, although their status for the Paris Olympics is still up in the air

More than 300 fencers including nine medalists from the last Olympics in Tokyo have signed an open letter urging the sport’s governing body and the International Olympic Committee not to allow Russian fencers to compete while the war in Ukraine continues

Russia's Defense Ministry says Moscow has test-fired anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan

The U_N_’s atomic energy chief has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the perilous situation at Europe’s largest nuclear plant “isn’t getting any better."

Newer generation fighter jets are giving Russia "increasing dominance" in the skies over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, according to a senior Ukrainian official.

A United Nations rights expert advising the International Olympic Committee says Russian athletes who actively served in the war in Ukraine should be let back into international sport if they didn't take part in war crimes

U.S. officials and lawmakers reacted with caution and concern after Putin said he would be moving tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus near Ukraine

A new campaign is underway this spring across Russia that seeks volunteers to replenish its troops for the war in Ukraine

With a new talk of nuclear weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’ll send tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus.

Putin: Belarus will store tactical nuclear weapons for Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has expressed concern to China over any provision of lethal aid to support Russia in its war against Ukraine during a meeting with her Chinese counterpart

The chief of staff to Hungary's prime minister says Hungarian authorities wouldn't arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he were to enter the country despite him being the subject of an international warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine

A court in Belarus has sentenced a reporter for the now-closed local edition of one of Russia’s most popular newspapers to three years in prison for insulting the country’s authoritarian leader

At least one person was killed and scores of people, including children, were injured in the attack in Zaporizhzhia.

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports on the implications of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow as Ukrainian cities face another barrage of Russian missiles.

This latest round of attacks happened as Chinese leader Xi Jinping was in Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian and Chinese leaders met in the Kremlin's grandest hall, and issued a statement against Ukraine.

The Pentagon says it is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster

: ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports from Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Moscow.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China’s “peace plan” for the war in Ukraine a “stalling tactic at best.”

ABC News’ Karen Travers joined to discuss the national reaction to this meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinse President Xi Jinping as well as the concerns over the U.S response.

This comes as formal talks are underway between the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The Russian authorities have raided homes and offices of multiple human rights advocates and historians with the prominent rights group Memorial that won the Nobel Peace Prize last year

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin as part of a closely watched state visit to Russia that started Monday.

Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council in early April on what it says is “the real situation” of Ukrainian children taken to Russia

Xi arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day state visit.

This comes days after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes.

ABC News’ Ian Pannell reports on the meeting between China’s leader and the Russian president and what this could mean for the war in Ukraine.

The deal allows the exports of Ukrainian grain to global markets.

Ukrainians are worried about this “new era” of Russian-Chinese relations.