1+ week, 3+ day ago   (254+ words) President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's budget deficit, which grew by 40% in the first half of this year to reach 2.8% of GDP, poses no "critical" risk for the economy and remains manageable. "Considering that we have one of the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (158+ words) Ukrainian drones damaged two apartment buildings and an industrial plant in the Moscow region and killed at least two people in the southwestern Belgorod region, officials said Thursday. Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said 56 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight. Independent…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (158+ words) Ukrainian drones damaged two apartment buildings and an industrial plant in the Moscow region and killed at least two people in the southwestern Belgorod region, officials said Thursday. Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said 56 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight. Independent…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (321+ words) Russian transportation authorities on Wednesday vowed to prevent any disruptions to domestic air travel after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the day before that Kyiv's drone attacks were making Russian airspace too dangerous for flying. Transportation Minister Andrei Nikitin said…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (316+ words) The Moscow Times Russian forces struck a transhipment terminal in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Aug. 29, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Telegram. The attack caused a temporary power outage that shut down the port city's public transport…...

2+ week, 6+ 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, 2+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (216+ words) Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery and a residential building in the republic of Bashkortostan, leaving at least one person injured, regional head Radiy Khabirov said Wednesday. Khabirov said air defense systems intercepted four of six drones that targeted the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) Russian troops have taken control of 19 settlements in southeastern Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions over their summer campaign, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. In a statement, the ministry cited a report by Pyotr Bolgarev, commander of the eastern…...