The Russian missile strike on a residential apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last weekend killed at least 45 people — including six children — and left another 20 people missing, making it one of the deadliest attacks since Russia’s invasion of its neighbor began almost a year ago. With any form of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had “no doubt” Moscow would emerge victorious in Ukraine on Wednesday, despite military setbacks in the nearly year-long offensive. Putin ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in February last year, and in September announced a military mobilization to prop up Moscow’s forces in the country. Despite a number of military…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday likened Western policies on Russia to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s planned “Final Solution” for Europe’s Jews. Moscow’s top diplomat — whose comments on Hitler and Jews led to President Vladimir Putin issuing a rare apology on his behalf last year — made the comparison at his annual press…
Russian authorities on Wednesday announced having killed a soldier who left his military base, with state media identifying the man as an armed deserter from fighting in Ukraine. “Dmitry Perov, wanted for the unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, was found and liquidated,” the government of the Lipetsk region in western Russia said on social media.…
Russia’s largest bank Sberbank is launching operations in Crimea for the first time since Moscow annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, Russian media reported Wednesday, citing the company’s press service. The majority state-owned lender had until now avoided operating in Crimea due to the threat of Western sanctions. But the bank was among the…
Updates with reduced death toll, adds tributes to the dead. At least 14 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister, have been killed in a helicopter crash outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, authorities said Wednesday, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky has called a “terrible tragedy.” The aircraft fell near a kindergarten in the town of Brovary, some 20…
At least 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister, have been killed in a helicopter crash outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, authorities said Wednesday, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky has called a “terrible tragedy.” The aircraft fell near a kindergarten in the town of Brovary, some 20 kilometers northeast of Kyiv, while children and staff were inside…
Several people were detained in Moscow at a makeshift memorial dedicated to victims of Saturday’s deadly missile strike on a Ukrainian residential building, media reported late Tuesday. At least 45 people, including six children, were killed and 20 remain missing after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the east-central city of Dnipro, in…