Moscow on Tuesday freed an American prisoner after the first-known visit by a member of President Donald Trump's administration to Russia, in a deal the White House called a positive sign for ending the Ukraine war.

The White House said Trump secured the release of Marc Fogel, an American jailed since 2021 on drug charges, as part of an "exchange,"

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be visiting Ukraine to meet the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday.

War between Russia and Ukraine "must and will end soon," Trump said in a Truth Social post, adding that there has been "too much death and destruction."

But he did not specify

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Russia's oil and gas revenues increased by 16.9% year-on-year in January 2025, reaching 789.1 billion rubles  ($8.6 billion), the Finance Ministry said last week.

The rise was driven by higher extraction tax receipts despite a slight decline from December levels.

The increase comes despite the Biden administration tightening sanctions on Russia’s oi

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Britain, the United States and Australia on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber firm and several of its employees, accusing them of "facilitating crippling ransomware attacks globally."

The sanctions against Zservers and its staff are the latest in a series of coordinated actions by Western governments, which last year targeted the

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An explosion aboard an oil tanker in the Gulf of Finland off the coast of northwestern Russia has actually not led to an oil spill, Russia's Transportation Ministry said Tuesday.The Koala tanker, integrated in 2003 and flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, is presently moored at the port of Ust-Luga with 130,000 metric lots of fuel oil.Fears of a
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Kyiv and its Western allies are preparing attacks on ships in the Baltic Sea and exiled Kremlin critics in an effort to blame Moscow and hinder Ukraine peace talks, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed Tuesday.The alleged false-flag operations are focused on preventing the launch of a serene settlement procedure for the war in Ukr
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