Russia has censured as “a provocation” a reported Ukrainian request for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems from the United States, stressing that considering such supplies would deal a setback to efforts to ease an ongoing crisis between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

China conducts a combat readiness patrol near the Taiwan Strait following a visit to Chinese Taipei by a US congressional delegation.

China has accused the UK of engaging in behavior that “harbored evil intentions.”

The Serbian army has deployed four armored vehicles close to the frontier.

Russia says the West is using the “hype” around opposition figure Alexei Navalny as a pretext to impose new sanctions against Moscow, adding that the actions of Germany in particular prove that the case was a “planned provocation.”

China is angry after a US warship sailed through waters in the South China Sea.

China says US deliberately provoking tensions in the Taiwan strait.