8+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (687+ words) Russia’s Belgorod region was still struggling to restore power, heating and water amid subzero temperatures on Monday after a Ukrainian strike triggered its worst blackout since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine nearly four years ago. The outages…...

4+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (513+ words) Since the start of the war in Iran, conventional wisdom says that Russia has enjoyed a windfall from soaring oil prices so great that it has strengthened its position in the war in Ukraine. This has even trickled into the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (554+ words) Russian military bloggers praised the dismissal of Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who has been credited with cutting bureaucracy and boosting drone warfare against Russia, saying the shake-up would only benefit Moscow’s war effort. Fedorov, 35, was dismissed Thursday after being…...

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…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (194+ words) A Ukrainian drone struck a high-rise residential complex near central Moscow early Monday, city officials said, a rare breach of the Russian capital’s defenses despite increased security and tightened internet restrictions intended to thwart such attacks. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin…...

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…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (541+ words) An intermediate-range ballistic missile — dubbed "Oreshnik" — used by Russia in an overnight strike on Ukraine is, according to the Kremlin, a "state-of-the art" weapon that cannot be intercepted. First fired on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in 2024 and named after…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (323+ words) The European Union on Thursday approved new sanctions against Russia and unlocked a loan of 90 billion euros ($105.3 billion) to Ukraine after Hungary and Slovakia dropped their vetoes following the resumption of Russian oil flows. Targeting Russia’s energy and maritime sectors,…...

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…...