Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned Israel’s wave of strikes on Iran, the Kremlin said Friday, following separate phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Putin “stressed that…

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned Israel’s wave of strikes on Iran, the Kremlin said Friday, following separate phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Putin “stressed that…

‘Two months ago, I gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to “make a deal”… Now they may have a second chance!’…

‘When it comes to arming anyone, we do not have the right, according to our laws, to sell and ship any…

Russian forces have secured a small foothold in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time since the early weeks of the full-scale war in 2022, The New York Times reported Friday.
Small groups of Russian soldiers crossed into…

A Moscow court has declared the websites of two companies offering Instagram profile verification services “extremist” and banned them in Russia. The court rulings were discovered in the case archive by Verstka.
Prosecutors requested the ban…


A former Russian diplomat who was charged with conspiring to evade sanctions by working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska pleaded guilty to a lesser count of lying to FBI agents.
Sergei Shestakov, a naturalized US citizen, had previously…


Finnish police said Friday that they concluded their investigation into an oil tanker suspected of damaging several undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, officially identifying three crew members as…

Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,200 fallen soldiers as part of an ongoing repatriation effort, the country’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Friday.
“According to the Russian side, the bodies belong…