Ukraine has escalated its drone attacks on Russian oil refineries since the beginning of the year in an effort to cripple Russia’s economy and constrain fuel supplies to its military. Despite the increased intensity of these strikes, experts who spoke to The Moscow Times agree that their impact on the Russian economy has so far…
PETROZAVODSK, Russia – On a cold April morning, a closed coffin was laid to rest with military honors in the local cemetery of Petrozavodsk, a city of 235,000 people in the republic of Karelia. Inside the coffin lay the body of 19-year-old Russian soldier Kirill Chistyakov, one of the first to be sent by the…
Residents of Orsk, the Ural Mountains city most impacted by some of Russia’s worst flooding in decades, staged protests against local authorities’ perceived inaction on Monday. Much of Orsk was submerged underwater after the Ural River swelled and burst through a dam embankment on Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate. Russia declared a regionwide state of emergency…
Russia has hit up to 80% of Ukraine’s conventional power plants and half its hydroelectric plants in recent weeks in the heaviest attacks since the war began, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Monday. Moscow has launched almost daily strikes on Ukraine’s power grid since late March, causing major blackouts in the northeastern city of…
A Russian activist and volunteer who had helped Ukrainian refugees return home during the invasion has died in police custody in the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod, the Vot Tak news outlet reported Monday, citing two anonymous sources in his inner circle. Alexander Demidenko, 61, was reportedly abducted and tortured in October 2023. After serving 10 days in…
Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of attacking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station with a drone for the second day running, after Kyiv had earlier pointed the finger at Moscow. The plant in southern Ukraine, Europe’s largest nuclear facility, has been under the control of Russian forces since the first days of the military offensive in…
The indigenous people of Tyumen Oblast celebrated the national holiday of the arrival of spring – Crow’s Day – with the support of RN-Uvatneftegaz (part of Rosneft’s oil production complex)
Russia’s Embassy in Lithuania was attacked with Molotov cocktails twice over the weekend, media in the Baltic country reported Monday. The embassy wall in Vilnius was damaged after unidentified individuals threw bottles with incendiary liquids after 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday and Monday, according to the broadcaster LRT. The suspects have not yet been identified.…
A jailed ex-minister in annexed Crimea has asked to join the Russian military and be deployed to Ukraine, a Russian prison watchdog member told state media Monday. Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court last July sentenced Vera Novoselskaya, Crimea’s former Russian-installed culture minister, to 10 years in prison for accepting 25 million rubles ($270,000) in bribes. Russia’s Public Monitoring…
Russia said Monday that more than 10,000 residential buildings were flooded across the Urals, Volga region and western Siberia as emergency services evacuated cities threatened by rising rivers. On Sunday, Russia declared a federal emergency in the Orenburg region, where the Ural River flooded much of the city of Orsk and is now reaching dangerous…
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region killed three people on Monday, in the second day of deadly attacks on the area, its governor said. The strike on the rural area came a day after three people were killed in a Russian attack on the town of Huliaipole. “Three people were killed and three people…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China for an official visit on Monday, his ministry said, as the two countries look to strengthen diplomatic ties as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on. The Foreign Ministry announced Lavrov had touched down in Beijing in a post on X Monday morning. He will spend two days…