A visit by UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi to the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine was delayed to Thursday, Russian officials said. 

Grossi was expected at Europe's largest atomic plant on Wednesday to assess any impacts to the site's safety after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

The breach of the dam, which formed a

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Updated with Kremlin's comments.A Russian legislator from Chechnya who is a close ally of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been injured in Ukraine, Russian media reported Wednesday.State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov is alive, but he has actually been injured, the Russian Defense Ministry-run Zvezda TV channel stated, without offering additional details.Kadyrov

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Lethal Russian missile strikes struck southern and eastern Ukraine on Wednesday as the Western-backed country's air defenses resisted versus Moscow's heightened attacks. Russia fired four Kalibr missiles on the southern port city of Odesa from a warship in the Black Sea, Ukraine's air force said, with air defenses shooting down three of them.One

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Fewer patent applications in the field of quantum technologies were filed in Russia last year due to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday.

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that seeks to solve problems too complex for conventional computers. 

The number of patent applications related to

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A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a previous regional organizer of imprisoned Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny to seven-and-a-half years in jail on charges of creating an extremist group. Lilia Chanysheva, 41, headed Navalny's political office in the central Russian city of Ufa till it was required to dissolve in 2021, when the a

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A minimum of 3 people were killed and 13 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday, authorities said.Russia fired four Kalibr rockets from a ship in the Black Sea, Serhiy Bratchuk, a representative for the area's military administration, said on Telegram.A strike on a retail chain's storage facility

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