Fighting Russia launched a swarm of Iranian-designed attack drones, damaging port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region and killing one civilian. The Ukrainian air force said it destroyed 15 of the 18 Shahed drones. The attack was the first on the Danube ports since November...
Russia lost 30 tanks and more than 1,000 troops in a single day, Kyiv’s military said in an update on Friday, as clashes intensify for the Donetsk town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s forces have lost a total of 322,900 fighters since Russian President Vladimir...
Finland will close its eastern border with Russia, the country’s interior minister has said, just hours after the Nordic nation relaxed a two-week closure of all roads between the two countries. Helsinki has said a recent rise in asylum seekers arriving via Russia was an orchestrated move...
More than 30 years after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, former Soviet states are still suffering the effects of the war against religion, says one of the founders of an organization formed to record testimonies of the victims of Soviet oppression. Elena Zhemkova helped...
Putin also indicated on Thursday that Russia has yet to take a final decision on whether its competitors will take part next year. The IOC rejected a blanket ban last week when it confirmed Russians will be allowed to compete under the name of Individual...
