2+ week, 3+ day ago   (255+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he had dispatched CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow the day before, expressing hope that the spy chief’s unannounced visit could help end the war in Ukraine. “Something may come out of it. We’re…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (263+ words) Ukraine and Russia exchanged 10 prisoners of war each, officials in Kyiv and Belarusian state media announced Monday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling the swap a “special stage” of ongoing prisoner exchanges with Moscow. Belarusian state media reported that Minsk…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (173+ words) Russian law enforcement authorities have arrested eight people accused of plotting an attack on a Moscow-region defense enterprise and separately detained a foreign national for scouting government buildings and strategic infrastructure, state media reported Friday. Russia's FSB security service claimed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (191+ words) Russia and Ukraine exchanged the remains of more than 530 soldiers killed during the war, the RBC news outlet reported Thursday, citing a Russian lawmaker. Ukraine received 501 bodies of its soldiers while handing Russia the remains of 31 soldiers, Shamsail Saraliyev, a…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (292+ words) Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its forces have established full control over eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, marking the third time that Russia has made such a claim since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022. Describing the purported takeover as…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1376+ words) There was the seventh-grade boy in the Moscow region who stabbed his 13-year-old classmate in the neck on their way to school. There was the Ufa teenager who shot his teacher with an airsoft gun and set off a firecracker…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (308+ words) Senator and former guitarist for the rock band Lyube Alexander Vaynberg has resigned from Russia’s upper-house Federation Council and announced that he will be deployed to the front line in eastern Ukraine. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (317+ words) Magnit, one of Russia’s largest grocery retailers, is preparing to expand into Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday, potentially marking the entry of a major federal retailer into the regions. Magnit has already begun supplying some…...

8+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (271+ words) Relatives of Russian servicemen in the Far East Primorye region have appealed to military prosecutors over alleged sexualized violence and extortion at a local army unit, the news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on Monday. According to reports cited by the…...