
Russia arrests a hard-line nationalist who accused Putin of weakness in Ukraine
Igor Strelkov, who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, argued a total mobilization is needed for victory in the current war

Igor Strelkov, who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, argued a total mobilization is needed for victory in the current war

A decade ago, 75% of visitors to the Black Sea commercial and tourist capital were Russian. Now the city is the main target of Moscow’s bombs

Messaging app channels linked to Prigozhin’s Wagner private military company said he spoke to his troops at a field camp in Belarus and ran a blurry video purported to show him speaking there

The decision means South Africa will not have to face the dilemma of whether it should act on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Russian leader

Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian activist group that monitors troop movements in Belarus, said a convoy of more than 100 vehicles carrying Russian flags and Wagner insignia entered the country on Monday

It’s the end of an accord that the U.N. and Turkey brokered to allow food to leave the Black Sea region after Russia invaded its neighbor

Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the strike was carried out by two Ukrainian maritime drones. The attack was the second major strike on the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections
In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., the Russian president said that Moscow has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far

Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a munition that has been banned by over 100 countries and which will wreak havoc on the civilian population for decades after the end of the war

The Kremlin earlier this month suggested that it was open to a possible prisoner exchange that could involve Evan Gershkovich, but it underscored that such talks must be held out of the public eye

The Wagner head has not commented on the meeting with Putin, and his ultimate fate remains unclear, as he could still face prosecution for financial wrongdoing or other charges

The crisis in Russia over Wagner’s mutiny has revealed the complex network of troops working in and outside of the country. The Kremlin helped create a system that has now turned against him

The failed rebellion of Wagner’s mercenaries has shown the cracks in the Russian leader’s power. In addition to the war in Ukraine, the president faces international pressure, faltering domestic support and a bleak economic outlook

The Ukrainian-held city in the Zaporizhzhia region is one of the staging points for Kyiv’s counteroffensive, making it a target for daily shelling by the Kremlin’s forces

The Russian president came out of the crisis caused by the Wagner rebellion weakened, but he has not yet been defeated. He has merely avoided a decisive fall

Officials also claim there are indications other Russian generals may have supported Prigozhin’s attempt to forcibly change the leadership of the Defense Ministry

Following the aborted uprising, it remains unclear where Prigozhin’s 20,000-25,000 mercenaries are deployed and what their next move will be after their leader’s exile

The Russian president said all necessary measures have been taken to protect the country and the people from the rebellion. He blamed ‘Russia’s enemies’ and said they ‘miscalculated’

The main unknown in Wagner’s attempted rebellion is whether Prigozhin’s uprising is an isolated act of a defiant coup plotter, the figurehead of one (or several) Kremlin families, or both
Life in Moscow and the southwest border with Ukraine has returned to normal after the mercenaries stopped their march towards the Russian capital, but the security crisis has called into question Putin’s strongman image

‘The longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have,’ President Zelenskiy warned

The head of the private security company Wagner has raised his profile during the war in Ukraine. His attack poses a major challenge to the Kremlin

El grupo de mercenarios rusos, con Yevgueni Prigozhin a la cabeza, ha llamado a levantarse contra el poder del Kremlin

After the deal was reached Saturday, Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. The deal appeared to defuse a dramatically escalating crisis

Members of the Ukrainian Police’s special forces are engaged in fighting in their home region, spurred on by the desire to liberate their relatives from the occupied zones

Seven African leaders visited Ukraine on Friday to try to help end the nearly 16-month-old war, ahead of a trip to Moscow to meet with the Russian president
The Thor unit, which is involved in one of the most intense battles of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, is attacking Russian positions around the village of Mala Tomachka