Russian President Vladimir Putin's commissioner for the protection of children's rights informed the Russian leader during a meeting on Thursday that she had recently adopted a 15-year-old child from the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.

"Now I know what it means to be a mother of a child from Donbas. It's hard, but we

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A Belarusian dissident journalist whose dramatic arrest in 2021 made international headlines after his plane was forced by the authorities to land in Minsk has pleaded guilty to an array of charges against him on the first day of his trial in the Belarusian capital. 

Roman Protasevich, 27, was the former editor of Nexta, a Telegram channel that

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A former pro-Kremlin lawmaker condemned Russia's intrusion of Ukraine in a tweet on Thursday, calling it a war that no one but Vladimir Putin required and commending the genuine heroes in Russia who have spoken up publicly versus it. Robert Schlegel, who has lived in Germany since 2019, was previously a member of the pro-Kremlin United Russia
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President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that Belarus would join the offensives in Ukraine "only if attacked" first by Kyiv's army.

"I'm ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus in one case only: if so much as one soldier from (Ukraine) comes to our territory with a gun to kill my people," the veteran strongman

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Wagner unites dedicated professionals and highly motivated individuals, intones a voiceover at the start of a movie about the mercenary business as slow-motion video footage plays of men in camouflage and maneuvering tanks. It's where true patriots gather, the voice continues. The documentary PMC Wagner: Contract with the Motherland, which was
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The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner stated it might take months to catch the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's monstrous administration for slowing military gains.Russia has actually been attempting to surround the battered industrial city and wrest it ahead of Feb. 24, the first anniversary of what it terms its unique military
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