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Russian drones assaulted the southwestern Ukrainian port city of Izmail for a second night, authorities in Kyiv said on Thursday, claiming a number of Russian aircraft went into Romanian airspace.Moscow has actually routinely targeted ports in the southern Odesa region considering that it backed out of a contract in 2015 that enabled Ukraine to export grain via the

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 26 July 2024

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The former head of the Russian military’s construction company has been arrested on abuse of power charges, the Kommersant business daily reported late Wednesday, citing anonymous government sources familiar with the matter.

Andrei Belkov headed the Defense Ministry’s chief military construction authority for special facilities until 2021, when he w

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 26 July 2024

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A military attack helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area of central Russia, killing the entire crew, authorities said early Thursday.

"AMi-28helicoptercrashed in the Zhizdrinskydistrict," Kaluga region Governor Vladislav Shapsha said. "A taskforceandrescuers are working at the crashsite."

The Zhizdrinskydistrict, located in the central Kaluga

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 26 July 2024

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Russia’s militarysaid Wednesday that it scrambled a Su-27 fighter jet to prevent three British warplanes from entering Russian airspace over the Black Sea.

A Su-27 identified the “three air targets” as a U.K. Royal Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft and two Typhoon fighter planes, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.

“As the Russian f

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 25 July 2024

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President Vladimir Putin met with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as continued "escalation" in the Middle East, state media reported on Thursday.

The meeting, held late Wednesday, comes at a time when Russia — which saved Assad's government through its military intervention in 2015 d

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 26 July 2024

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Authorities in Moscow on Wednesday renamed the capital city’s Square of Europe as the Square of Eurasia amid Russia’s worsening relations with the West over the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Square of Europe, located in front of the bustling Kievsky Railway Station, was unveiled in 2002 as part of a joint Russian-Belgian project symbolizing