Russia's defense ministry said Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol. 

"Over the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist regiment surrendered," the ministry said in its daily briefing on the conflict. 

"In total, since May 16, 1,730

A top Russian official claimed Wednesday that Europe’s largest nuclear power station - that was captured by Russian forces in Ukraine - will provide electricity to Russia .

Ukraine’s energy providers dismissed the comments on the seized Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as a technical impossibility.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, on a visi

Russia reported Thursday its second civilian death since the start of the invasion of Ukraine as fighting near Russia's border with Ukraine intensified.

“Another enemy attack that took place at dawn unfortunately ended in tragedy,” Roman Starovoit, the governor of western Russia’s Kursk region, wrote on Telegram.  

A truck driver making a delivery

Google’s Russian branch has initiated a bankruptcy procedure over its inability to pay a $100-million fine for keeping up content Moscow deems illegal, mediareported Wednesday as Russia continues to intensify its pressure on Big Tech following its invasion of Ukraine.

Google confirmed the reports the next day.

"Google Russia has published a notice