The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, the Russian state news agency Tass reported
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby points out that the letters were ‘more at the surface level’ but that talks on a weapons sale were advancing
The Kremlin said earlier that President Vladimir Putin wasn’t planning to attend the funeral
President of the European Council Charles Michel has set a deadline of 2030 for the expansion of the Union. Kyiv currently meets only two of the seven requirements to start accession negotiations
Conservative Alexander Schallenberg defends his country’s military neutrality in the Ukrainian war and expresses concern about the possibility of Moscow taking advantage of the loopholes left by the EU
Members of the small and independent Fulcro theater group – who left Saint Petersburg because of the war – are trying out another scene in Israel
Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa and Syria, was eulogized by President Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind the accident that many saw as an assassination
Drawn by natural resources, the mercenary corporation operates in Libya, the Central African Republic, Sudan, and Mali, where they strive to spread Russian influence and enrich the Kremlin
US intelligence and some Russian media point to an attack on the plane in which the Wagner leader was traveling. ‘He was a man of difficult fate, and he made serious mistakes in life,’ said the Russian president
The list of the deceased includes the firm’s second-in-command, its head of logistics and other senior officials. Two pilots and a stewardess were also killed
President Putin on Thursday expressed his condolences to the families of those who were reported to be aboard the jet and referred to ‘serious mistakes’ by Prigozhin, who led an insurrection against the Russian military two months prior to his death
The latest ruling means he faces spending at least eight months in prison. Gershkovich has been sitting in jail since the end of March when he was detained in the city of Yekaterinburg while on a reporting trip
The crash immediately raised suspicions, since the fate of the founder of the Wagner private military company has been the subject of intense speculation ever since he led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military two months ago
The Kyiv security services claim responsibility for the sabotage, operations that demonstrate their ability to infiltrate enemy territory
The Kyiv government organized a meeting with four prisoners of war, three of them from the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk
The arrest of a military officer accused of passing information to Moscow adds to fears of a wider infiltration of Germany by the Kremlin’s secret services
The spacecraft was scheduled to land on the south pole of the Moon on Monday, racing to beat an Indian probe also heading to Earth’s satellite. The launch was Russia’s first since 1976
Almost 18 months after the start of the war, a humanitarian corridor between the Russian city of Belgorod and Sumi in northeastern Ukraine opens a window of opportunity for trapped citizens
The governor of the northern region, Vyacheslav Chaus, said Sunday that the total number of people wounded in the attack had risen to 148
The head of European diplomacy thinks that the EU’s aid to Ukraine has been too gradual. He also spoke with EL PAÍS about the explosive situation in the Sahel region after the military coup in Niger: ‘It’s the moment of truth for Africa’
Neither side gave details of what the cooperation will entail, but the two countries have agreed to hold joint military exercises next year
The fragility of the region’s states — some ruled to military juntas or immersed in civil wars — jihadism and disputes over natural resources have exacerbated instability
Ukraine’s economy, crunched by the war, is heavily dependent on farming. Its agricultural exports, like those of Russia, are also crucial for world supplies
A new textbook to be introduced as compulsory reading in high schools rewrites much of post-World War II history to meet the designs of the Kremlin
The Russian currency had passed 101 rubles to the dollar Monday, continuing a more than one-third decline in its value since the beginning of the year
The Center for Civil Liberties has documented 4,000 people arrested during the invasion, a number the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, puts as high as 20,000
The destabilization in the African region poses a higher threat of jihadist terrorism and increased flows of migrants to Europe
