A Russian military court has sentenced eight mobilized soldiers to prison terms of up to seven years for deserting their unit in eastern Ukraine, the independent Mediazona news websitereported Tuesday, citing their lawyer.

The soldiers had been sent to a field camp in the Moscow-occupied region of Luhansk after being drafted in September as part of

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Russian officials and pro-Kremlin voices were split over Tuesday’s unprecedented drone attack on Moscow and its surrounding areas, with some downplaying the attack and others sharply criticizing the country’s defense capabilities.

President Vladimir Putin called the incident a provocation by Kyiv but appeared calm in televised comments, saying that

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Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Tuesday’s drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region on “terrorist activity” and called it an attempt to “intimidate” ordinary Russians.

“The Kyiv regime has chosen... the path of attempting to intimidate Russian citizens and striking residential buildings,” the state-run TASS news agency quoted Putin

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Russia has issued 1.5 million passports in occupied Ukrainian areas, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated Tuesday.Residents of the occupied areas informed AFP this month that they had been pushed into taking up a Russian passport, necessary for utilizing basic public services.Kyiv has described the passport handouts as an effort to suppress
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Luxury houses owned by the Russian elite and President Vladimir Putin's main out-of-town residence were just a few kilometers from where drones were shot down Tuesday during a major attack on the Russian capital, according to a crash sitelist published by a Russian parliamentary deputy.

Since the Soviet era, Moscow’s western suburbs — where at lea

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Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that he and other prisoners in his jail colony are forced to listen to pro-war and anti-Semitic songs several times a day as part of the jail's re-education efforts.Navalny is serving his prison term in the IK-6 jail in the Vladimir area east of Moscow, a center understood for its severe
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