Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected troops deployed in the Arctic as well as preparations "to defend specially important installations" in this strategic zone, his ministry said Saturday.

Shoigu was accompanied by Alexey Likhachev, head of the state nuclear company Rosatom, and visited Novaya Zemlya, in Russia's extreme north, a

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Russia air defense forces shot down 2 Ukrainian missiles over a bridge connecting Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, an official said on Saturday. Air defence forces shot down two opponent missiles over the Kerch Strait. The Crimean bridge was not harmed, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean peninsula, said
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Russia's federal budget profits from convict labor has actually more than doubled from 2016-2022, The Moscow Times' Russian service reported Friday, pointing out Finance Ministry data.In 2022, the federal spending plan received 19.1 billion rubles ($192.4 million) from forced labor carried out by convicts for state and private business, compared to 8.8 billion rubles
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A mass die-off of northern fur seals and Steller sea lions was found by a group of conservations in Russia's Far East, regional media reported Thursday. Photos published online revealed the animals' carcasses spread throughout the coast of Tyuleniy Island, located around 17 kilometers off the coast of Sakhalin.Conservationists from the Friends of
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Over 30,000 Russian soldiers have actually been eliminated in Ukraine given that the start of the Kremlin's intrusion a year and a half ago, according to an independent tally performed by the independent Mediazona news site and the BBC's Russian service.The two outlets have actually been confirming the variety of Russian soldiers eliminated in Ukraine utilizing publicly available
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Three employees at a waterpark in annexed Crimea were forced to sing a tune in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin after being filmed dancing to a Ukrainian pop tune, authoritiessaid Friday.A Russian pro-war Telegram channel that explains itself as a register of Russophobes, Ukrainian Nazis and traitors shared video of the waterpark
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