A convicted murderer in Russia has actually signed his second agreement to fight in Moscow's war on Ukraine simply months after receiving a brand-new jail sentence for another murder, the Travmpunkt legal rights group stated Monday.Ivan Rossomakhin had actually been serving a 14-year sentence for murder when he was first recruited by the Wagner mercenary group in 2022 to

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The Kremlin refuses to cancel next month’s elections in the Kursk border region despite Ukraine’s ongoing offensive there, deeming it to be “only a local crisis” from a military perspective, three Russian officials familiar with the election preparations told Politika.Kozlov. 

The officials agreed to speak on condition of anonymity due to the

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Poland's Armed Forces said Monday that the nation's airspace was likely broken by a drone following lethal Russian strikes across Ukraine earlier in the day.Russia introduced numerous drones and missiles at Ukraine early Monday. The strikes, which targeted the country's energy infrastructure, killed at least 4 people.During the attacks,

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “partial” military mobilization for the war in Ukraine in September 2022, more than 500 women gathered on the central square of Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s Far East republic of Sakha (Yakutia), to protest the decision. 

“My friend and I

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A possible Russian drone flyover last week prompted a NATO military base in western Germany to briefly raise its security level, media in the nation reported Monday, mentioning confidential security sources.The Western military bloc on Friday said it raised and then decreased the security level at Geilenkirchen Air Base due to an unspecified potential t

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) took apart an underground betting operation inside a chastening colony in the Rostov region, local media reported Monday.FSB representatives took playing cards, casino chips, a cellphone, SIM cards and other devices used to run the illicit gambling establishment at Penal Colony No. 14 in the town of Novocherkassk, according to a

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