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The ministry cited what it called ‘the special military operation’ in Ukraine and the expansion of NATO as the reasons for beefing up the army

The Kremlin rejected Finnish authorities’ claims that Russia has encouraged the influx of migrants at the border to punish Finland for joining NATO

Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in St. Petersburg in April 2022 after replacing tiny price tags with ones that decried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Moscow’s air and artillery superiority is pushing the defenders of the strategic city in Donetsk province to the limit as ammunition supplies run low

A delegation of G7 experts will meet in Antwerp, the great historical center of the sector, to assess formulas for tracking and tracing Russian gemstones

Valerii Zaluzhnyi predicts that there will be no progress for at least a year and has compared the situation at the front to World War I

Almost half of countries have suffered setbacks in the democratic process in the last five years, according to the IDEA organization, which however highlights growing citizen participation

The strike on a cafe in the village of Hroza on Oct. 5 was one of the deadliest attacks since the Kremlin’s forces launched a full-scale invasion 20 months ago

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was accused of reporting on the Russian military ‘in order to transmit information to foreign sources,’ the state-run website Tatar-Inform said

Guided bombs hit key infrastructure in the city of Kherson, sparking a partial blackout and disruption to the area’s water supply

With schools demolished by shelling and students evacuated, educators continue to give classes from basements or air raid shelters to provide a small sense of normalcy

Last July, Russia broke the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement signed in summer 2022 with Turkey and the UN that allowed Ukrainian grain to be exported to international markets

Marina Ovsyannikova, who interrupted a live broadcast of one of Russia’s most-watched news programs and also called Vladimir Putin a killer, lives in France under consular protection

Azerbaijan is increasing its demands on the government of Nikol Pashinyan after regaining control of the territory, while the opposition has called the prime minister a ‘traitor’ for seeking peace negotiations

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have intensified their operations against the invader’s positions in the illegally annexed territory

Russia says Ukraine has launched another missile attack on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

Populist and far-right parties are capitalizing on the discontent and fatigue of their citizens in the middle of electoral periods in Slovakia and Poland

The Ukrainian military has confirmed a change in tactics in their advance to reduce the number of casualties. Officers are asking for more time to obtain results in the counteroffensive

Kyiv is producing a new generation of weapons, including cruise missiles, to strike beyond its borders and reduce dependence on its international allies

Ursula von der Leyen will deliver the State of the Union speech on Wednesday in Strasbourg with many internal and external issues on the table for the bloc

The Russian invasion has destroyed buildings containing the paintings of Maria Primachenko and Polina Raiko. Today, the works of these folkloric artists are being displayed in various exhibitions, in an attempt to strengthen the national Ukrainian identity

The hardline anti-Kremlin politician has been dubbed ‘Europe’s New Iron Lady’ for her stance on the Ukraine war but is under pressure after a scandal erupted in the media

Each barrel of crude that the Kremlin sells is already clearly above the set threshold, but the U.S. and the other non-EU members of the G7 — Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom — are refusing to introduce changes

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attack on a civilian target as U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Ukraine, where he was expected to announce more than $1 billion in new American funding

The Russian president says the agreement that allowed Ukraine to export through the Black Sea won’t be restored until the West meets its obligations to facilitate Russian agricultural exports

The Ukrainian military warns that Moscow is replicating its strategy in Bakhmut to break the defenses of the strategic city while diverting forces from the counteroffensive in the south