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
Dima, 16, left his hometown on the peninsula occupied by Moscow since 2014 for fear of being forced to fight with Russian troops against Ukrainians
Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone
The largest, SLB, maintained and even grew its business after others eventually departed
The Russian Defense Ministry said it destroyed facilities preparing ‘terror attacks’ against Russia involving maritime drones, as well as Ukrainian fuel depots
The Black Sea Grain Initiative has allowed 32.9 million metric tons of grain to be exported from Ukraine since last August
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
After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the biochemist escaped Russia and joined the National Cancer Research Center in Madrid to find a cure for pancreatic cancer
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
Popov was the commander of the 58th army fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, which is a focal point of Ukraine’s counteroffensive
The move follows the private army’s brief rebellion last month that challenged the Kremlin’s authority
The island of Gotland will become one of the strongholds of the Alliance, and the powerful Swedish military industry will strengthen the development of aircraft, tanks and anti-aircraft defense systems
Biden described the summit as a “historic moment” and said the United States agreed with a proposal to outline a path for Ukraine’s eventual membership.
The catastrophic collapse of a dam in southern Ukraine has made Kyiv worried that Russia might stage an attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to foment panic and quell Ukrainian advances on the frontline
Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets
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
Speaking in a video from Snake Island released Saturday, Zelenskyy honored the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the island and all other defenders of the country
After arriving at night in London, Biden will meet the next day with King Charles III for the first time since he was crowned
The decision comes despite widespread concerns that the controversial bombs can cause civilian casualties
The Wagner militias’ uprising has torn the veil and broken the power vertical. The president now appears to be weak and fragile, a discredited loser, fodder for a coup d’état, and even an assassination
Tuesday was Putin’s first multilateral summit since an armed rebellion rattled Russia and comes as he is eager to show that the West has failed to isolate Moscow over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine
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
Analysts say his participation at a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Tuesday is an opportunity to show he is in control after a short-lived insurrection by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin