7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (322+ words) A Ukraine war veteran killed a woman in the Siberian city of Irkutsk after taking her hostage, the head of a local women’s shelter where the incident took place said early Wednesday. Alexander Sobolev, who manages a non-profit called Obereg,…...

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…...

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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (542+ words) The seven wealthiest candidates on the ruling United Russia party's federal list for September's State Duma elections reported a combined 8.068 billion rubles ($103.27 million) in income last year, according to financial disclosures published by the RBC news website. The highest income…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (157+ words) A Ukrainian drone attack on Sevastopol in annexed Crimea killed one man and wounded three other people, the city's Moscow-installed governor said Sunday. "43 [drones] were shot down in total. Unfortunately, there are fatalities," Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram. He said…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (165+ words) The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday its forces had taken control of Potapivka, a tiny village near the Russian border in Ukraine's northern Sumy region. The Russian army has been trying to establish a “buffer zone” in the Sumy region…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (946+ words) “He dreamed, like everyone, of living in a free country,” Valentina Shapyrko said of her son, Ukrainian soldier Pavlo Artemenko, who is imprisoned in Russia. Artemenko, 29, fought in the defense of Mariupol, the strategic port city that was almost entirely…...

4+ week, 20+ hour 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…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (250+ words) Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed Tuesday that the Ukrainian military plans to use Latvian territory as a launching ground for its ongoing drone attacks against Russia, an allegation that officials in the Baltic country quickly dismissed. In a statement,…...