Category: 1. Russia

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend Wednesday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Politico reported.

Hegseth also won’t join the meeting virtually, according to the Associated Press,…

Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said in a June 3 interview with Fox News that Ukraine had carried out a “very bold attack” on Russian military airfields — but cautioned that the move…

U.S. President Donald Trump did not receive advance notice about Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian military airfields on June 1, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on June 3. Asked what Trump thinks about Kyiv’s…

On June 3, a Moscow court granted a request by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to designate Wargaming owner Victor Kislyi and Lesta Games owner Malik Khatazhayev as participants in an “extremist organization.” The judge also granted…

Russia’s major news networks faced a considerable challenge covering events from the May 31–June 1 weekend, which included train derailments in two regions and drone strikes on strategic warplanes at multiple airfields. Meduza examines the…

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday praised the launch of a television channel that aims to bypass censorship in Russia and preserve the Kremlin critic’s legacy.

The channel,…

Hopes for a rebound in Russia’s auto market have faltered as vehicle sales declined sharply in May despite an uptick in the previous month.

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles fell by 27.5% year-over-year in May to…

A court in the southern Russian city of Volgograd has sentenced a university student to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony after he made a small financial transfer to Ukraine, the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported…