Russia's Defense Ministrysaid Friday that its forces were developing a buffer zone in the areas of northeastern Ukraine's Sumy region that border southwestern Russia's Kursk area, where Moscow recently stated it forced out Kyiv's troops.President Vladimir Putin proposed establishing the so-called buffer zone to secure the Kursk region from f

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Ukrainian officials said Friday that unknown drones had actually targeted a Russian military intelligence station that spies on foreign satellites and electronic signals. The governor of southern Russia's Stavropol area, Vladimir Vladimirov, said drone fragments fell in the village of Moskovskoye without casualties or other damage early that morning.But

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Three firefighters deployed to battle the devastating wildfires in Russia’s Far East Zabaikalsky region were found dead on Friday, the region’s environment ministry announced

The news comes just days after the region’s fire safety chief Rinat Khismatulin resigned “at his own initiative.” 

Andrei Abramov, Andrei Alekmensky and Alexander Nazimov

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Blizzards blanketed Moscow in snow on Friday in a historic first for the season, toppling trees onto cars and causing power outages for tens of thousands of residents in the wider region.

The snowfall marks the first time that Moscow's base weather station has recorded snow cover on May 2 in its 75 years of operations, said Mikhail Leus from the

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) stated Friday that it apprehended a potential female bomber thought of outlining a Victory Day attack on police officers in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.The 28-year-old Russian resident was described as a advocate of an international terrorist organization prohibited in Russia, the FSB stated in a

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday a landmark minerals deal with the United States offered "equal" benefits for both sides even though the accord offered no concrete security guarantees for Kyiv.

Russia later launched a large-scale drone attack on the central industrial city of Zaporizhzhia, ripping open a Soviet-era residential

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