Russian troops edged more detailed to surrounding Kyiv's fortress of Vuhledar in the eastern Donetsk area on Monday, according to the Ukrainian crowd-sourced tracking site DeepState.The advance is a part of Moscow's wide-reaching offensive in eastern Ukraine that rapidly accelerated last month in spite of Ukraine's surprise incursion into western Russia's

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Russia will be barred from next year's ceremony celebrating 80 years because the Red Army liberated the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the museum stated Monday.The museum, located in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim, chose to exclude Moscow for a third time given that the full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. NATO and EU

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Russia's Central Bank on Monday extended restrictions on moving cash abroad for an additional six months, with their brand-new expiration date set for March 31, 2025. The curbs were first presented by President Vladimir Putin quickly after the full-scale intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022, targeted at protecting Russia's economy from the impacts o

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At least 56 people from southwestern Russia’s Kursk region have been killed and 770 are still missing since Ukraine launched its surprise incursion early last month, Russian officials said Monday.

Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy for “crimes of the Kyiv regime,” Rodion Miroshnik, said another 266 people, including 11 children, were injured

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Two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan Monday, ending a record-breaking stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub invested 374 days in low-Earth orbit at the ISS, the longest-ever constant stay there. Kononenko also set a new record for the longest cumulative time anyone has actually invested in space-- passing t

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Japan lodged a very major demonstration with Moscow after a Russian patrol plane entered its airspace 3 times, the Japanese Defense Ministry stated Monday, calling it the first validated offense since 2019. Tokyo responded to the event by scrambling fighter jets and providing radio and flare cautions, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told

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