The Russian sports minister said Saturday that Ukraine's call to ban Russian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics, which has gathered support from several countries, was "unacceptable."

"The attempt to dictate the conditions of athletes' participation in international competitions is absolutely unacceptable," Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin was

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Half of Russia's main battle tanks have likely been destroyed or captured by Ukraine, a senior United States defense official said Friday.

Russia "has probably lost half of its main battle tank stock in combat and through Ukrainian capture," Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said during a Center for

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The Russian authorities have actually positioned Alexandra Garmazhapova, the head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, on its desired list, independent news site Mediazona reported Friday, pointing out Garmazhapova herself.According to Mediazona, Russia's Interior Ministry did not specify the crime that Garmazhapova is believed to have committed, though Garm
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An independent media outlet tallying the number of Russian military fatalities in Ukraine advertised this week for volunteers because — for the first time since the start of the war — it did not have enough people to process the incoming reports of deaths.  

Mediazona’s staffing issues are just one of a series of recent indicators that Russia is s

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The Russian journalist who grabbed the world's attention last year when she protested against the war in Ukraine on live Russian state television, described her "extraordinary" escape to France on Friday. 

Marina Ovsyannikova, who was facing 10 years in prison, fled Russia in October just before being sentenced. 

The former editor at Channel One

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NATO member Romania on Friday denied Russian rockets crossed its airspace on their way to Ukraine after Kyiv stated Moscow unleashed a enormous attack from the air. The fresh strikes come a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied for long-range weapons going to EU leaders in Brussels, in only his 2nd journey abroad given that Moscow
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