Russian strikes wounded more than 30 people in Ukraine overnight, officials said on Friday, a day after Kyiv and Washington signed a landmark minerals deal.

Ukraine hopes the deal will pave the way for Washington to provide security pledges to the embattled country, which has been fighting a Russian invasion for more than three years.

“Twenty-nine

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Trump administration insiders are growing increasingly concerned over special envoy Steve Witkoff’s solo meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New York Post reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.

Witkoff, a former real estate attorney and investor known as a “fierce negotiator,” has reportedly met with P

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Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities, with activists describing them as part of a broader crackdown that intensified ahead of the country’s spring military draft.

In late March, officers stormed a Spirit Fitness gym in southwest Moscow, forcing club-goers to

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Belarusian authorities said Thursday that they freed an opposition figure and naturalized U.S. citizen jailed for allegedly attempting to seize power from President Alexander Lukashenko.Yuras Zyankovich, 47, was detained in April 2021 throughout a crackdown on opposition activists objecting against Lukashenko's rule.He was sentenced to 11 years in
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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday mocked a new U.S.-Ukraine investment deal as forcing Kyiv to pay for military aid with its natural resources, calling Ukraine a “vanishing country.”

The deal, signed at the White House on Wednesday, was framed by President Donald Trump’s administration as a new form of U.S. c

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The head of Russia’s Communist Party on Thursday called on President Vladimir Putin to officially rename the southern city of Volgograd to Stalingrad in honor of its World War II legacy.

“We’ve been pushing for this for a long time,” party leader Gennady Zyuganov told the state-run TASS news agency. “In my opinion, it’s long overdue. If I were [the

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