Authorities in western Ukraine stated early Wednesday that important infrastructure was targeted in a Russian missile attack after air signals sounded across the country.The airstrikes came a day after Ukraine stated it had performed its biggest aerial attack on Russian territory since Moscow's February 2022 intrusion, striking factories and energy hubs

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The Kremlin has actually been in direct contact with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's team in the lead-up to his Jan. 20 inauguration, Russian federal government officials informed The Moscow Times.The formerly unreported interaction between the Kremlin and people representing Trump-- who remain private citizens up until the inauguration-- raises questions abo

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The Czech Republic no longer needs to import Russian oil following the completion of an expansion to the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) from Italy, Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced Tuesday. The building of this expansion has actually now been finished, Fiala informed reporters. Russia can no longer blackmail us, and we have a guarantee that we can

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Moscow has been quietly pursuing a two-pronged strategy to finance its escalating war costs. In addition to the publicly scrutinized defense budget, it has set up a system of state-directed, off-budget soft loans where the Kremlin badgers banks into making easy credits to defense-sector companies to unofficially fund its war machine.

But with the

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Ukraine might cease to exist as a sovereign state in 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with the pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published Tuesday. It can't be dismissed that Ukraine will cease to exist at all in the coming year, Patrushev stated, providing no elaboration or evidence.He

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday expressed cautious optimism about signals coming from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over the war in Ukraine, just days before Trump assumes office.

"The very fact that people are starting to talk more about the realities on the ground probably deserves being welcomed," Lavrov said at a press

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