Russia attacked western Ukraine on Thursday, killing one person in Lviv and injuring more than 10 people in the Zakarpattia region, according to local authorities.
Russian drones and cruise missiles targeted Lviv overnight, Mayor Andriy…
Category: 1. Russia
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Tax hikes in Russia are ‘unavoidable,’ government source tells Reuters — Meduza
Russian authorities will be forced to raise taxes, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous government source.
“Otherwise, we simply won’t be able to make ends meet, even with a reduction in defense spending. Oil and gas…
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Russia Launches Hundreds Of Missiles, Drones Across Ukraine In Overnight Attack
Russian forces launched a massive aerial attack overnight on Ukraine on August 21, deploying a combination of drones and missiles against multiple regions of the country, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
The authorities reported civilian…
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Work On Security Guarantees For Ukraine Already Under Way, Yermak Says
The outline of a military component of security guarantees for Ukraine is already taking shape, a top Ukrainian official said as the United States reiterated that European countries will have to take most of the burden in providing the…
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Russian oil is flowing to Europe again — and so is the bad blood between Ukraine and Hungary — Meduza
Russian oil deliveries to the European Union through the Druzhba pipeline have resumed, days after a Ukrainian strike on the line’s infrastructure brought shipments to a halt. Officials in Slovakia and Hungary confirmed the restoration…
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Court in Russian-occupied Luhansk imprisons local Ukrainian man for treason, attributing his actions to ‘a misguided sense of patriotism’
The Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic has sentenced a man from the town of Belokurakino to 17 years in prison for treason. He was reportedly convicted of passing military information to Ukrainian security…
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Thousands Of Central Asians Enlisted To Fight Russia’s War In Ukraine Through ‘Coercion, Enticements’
After completing conscript service in his native Kazakhstan in the fall of 2023, Kiril Nysanbaev went to Russia for work.
Nysanbaev’s hometown of Rudny is located just under 100 kilometers from Russia and it’s not unusual for locals to look for…
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The dealbreaker The Donetsk region’s ‘fortress belt’ blocks Russian troops from sweeping into central Ukraine. Putin wants Kyiv to surrender it.
In the days since Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s Alaska summit, the world’s attention has turned to the portion of the Donetsk region that Kyiv still controls — and that Putin wants it to give up. This territory contains…
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Worlds apart New comments by Russia’s foreign minister confirm that Moscow has not made the concessions in Ukraine talks claimed by the Trump administration
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the media at a press conference in Moscow, revealing enormous discrepancies between the Kremlin’s position on the war in Ukraine and the White House’s characterizations…
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News – The Russian Government
Denis Manturov and Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar have co-chaired the…
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