More than 100 Russian civilians have actually been evacuated to Ukraine following a lethal strike on an air-raid shelter in the Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in southwestern Russia's Kursk region this month, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.Kyiv and Moscow have pointed fingers at each other over a Feb. 1 strike that killed at least 5 people and

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Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa emphasized the strong strategic ties in between his country and Russia throughout his very first phone call with President Vladimir Putin because taking power, the Syrian presidency said Wednesday.Rebels led by Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted Moscow's close ally Bashar al-Assad in December after a

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BRUSSELS — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said Washington would not send peacekeepers to Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees for Kyiv and dismissed Ukraine’s goals of NATO membership and restoring its pre-2014 borders as “unrealistic.”

In a speech where he stressed that the U.S. remained committed to NATO but would

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A Moscow court placed a former pro-Kremlin activist in pre-trial detention and charged him with “confidential cooperation” with a foreign organization, Russian media reported Wednesday.

Agents from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Nikita Prosvirin, 32, in Moscow on Tuesday, according to the Ostorozhno Novosti Telegram news channel, c

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Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday accused each other of blocking the rotation of staff from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.

Moscow's troops seized the facility, Europe's largest nuclear power station, in the first days of its invasion of Ukraine. Since then, both sides of the

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Russia released previous U.S. teacher and diplomat Marc Fogel as part of an offer brokered by President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday. Following Fogel's return to the U.S., Trump said another detainee is set to go totally free from Russia on Wednesday.The Trump-orchestrated deal comes months after three Americans, consisting of former U.S. Marine Paul

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