Ukraine’s military intelligence claimed responsibility for a drone strike on an oil refinery in southern Russia’s Saratov region that eyewitnesses said sparked a blaze late Friday, according to media reports.

“A drone was eliminated over the territory of Saratov overnight. Part of the debris fell in an industrial zone in the Zavodsky district,” Sar

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A Russian court has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison on "treason" charges after he was reported to have donated around $54 to Ukraine's military.

The Moscow City Court said Friday it had found Alexander Kraychik guilty of "high treason" saying he provided "financial assistance to a foreign state [to support] activities against the security of

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Russian and Western traders and brokers are optimistic following Donald Trump's election victory, the Financial Times reported, citing market sources.

“All the talk this morning is about how to trade Russia and whether sanctions will be thrown off... [traders at Western banks] are questioning suddenly whether the ruble is now tradeable,” FT wrote.

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The owner of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has sold its last remaining property in Russia to a little-known businessman amid an ongoing wartime redistribution of assets.

“We are now in the last part of the scaling down process, and we can confirm that we have sold [Ye]sipovo Distribution Center outside of Moscow, as well as remaining land plots,”

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A Russian army general in charge of a unit alleged to have tortured its own soldiers and murdered a U.S. citizen was reportedly killed in Ukraine this week, becoming theeighth Russian general to die since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Major General Pavel Klimenko commanded the Russian ground forces’ 5th S

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Venezuela and its most powerful ally Russia signed agreements Thursday on intelligence-gathering and counter-espionage, as well as energy cooperation, during a visit by a senior Kremlin official to Caracas.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez that his country stood ready to support

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