Russia claimed it had captured a strategic city in Ukraine’s Donbas region, an announcement that appeared timed to a critical Kremlin meeting with visiting US officials trying to finalize a peace deal.
Ukrainian officials denied the claim, made…

Russia claimed it had captured a strategic city in Ukraine’s Donbas region, an announcement that appeared timed to a critical Kremlin meeting with visiting US officials trying to finalize a peace deal.
Ukrainian officials denied the claim, made…


Maxim Prevost said that…


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December 1 is World AIDS Day. Last week, the project To Be Precise published two reports about how HIV is transmitted in contemporary Russia and what living with the illness looks like. Meduza summarizes the group’s findings.

The Ukrainian open-source intelligence initiative DeepState, which created and maintains an interactive map of Russia’s invasion, has slammed the team behind a separate mapping tool, Polyglobe, accusing them of improperly using DeepState…

Russia said Monday its forces had captured the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, a key military logistics hub, as well as the city of Vovchansk in the northeast.
The battlefield claims, announced by…

The Kremlin said Monday that Russia’s armed forces captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a major logistical hub, as well as Vovchansk in the northeast.
Chief of the General Staff Valery…

Moscow has accused Ukraine of “violating Turkish sovereignty” after recent attacks on tankers carrying Russian oil. Naval drones reportedly struck the two ships almost simultaneously on November 28. At the time of the attacks, the…