Russia suggested Sunday that it may confiscate the Russian-based assets of nations it considers unfriendly in response to a US plan to auction Russian billionaires' assets and transfer the revenues to Ukraine, Agence France-Presse reported. At the same time, Moscow announced it was pulling...
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The US is collaborating with its allies to redirect some natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria in response to Russia's threat to cut off the flow of gas to those nations, the New York Times reported. The economic consequence of Europe's reliance on Russian...
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Russia released former US Marine Trevor Reed on Wednesday following a prisoner swap with the United States, despite ongoing tensions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Radio Free Europe noted. Reed was jailed in 2020 for allegedly assaulting Russian police officers a year before. His...
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Russia's state-controlled gas firm cut off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday, signaling a dramatic escalation in tensions between Moscow and the West over the Ukraine crisis, the Washington Post reported. Gazprom said the move was prompted by the failure of...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine this week, pledging support and more military aid to the war-torn nation, Politico reported. The meeting marked the first time senior US officials visited Ukraine after Russia launched its invasion...
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It's been two months since Russia invaded Ukraine to push back against alleged NATO encroachments and bring back into the fold an important region of the former Soviet Union and the late Czarist Russian Empire. Of course, some say that Russia’s invasion really began when troops...
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Russia wants to seize "complete control" of eastern and southern Ukraine, in part so it can access Moldova, according to a Russian commander, raising fears that the war could spill beyond Ukrainian borders, the Washington Post added. Lawmakers from Latvia and Estonia officially declared...
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A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich imagined a story about a former KGB agent who became head of state, created a class of corrupt oligarchs around him, draped himself in the mantle of the Russian Orthodox Church...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces Thursday to blockade the steel plant where Ukrainian troops are holding out in Mariupol, saying it would be “impractical” to attack the factory, the New York Times reported. Putin’s announcement came as Russia claimed victory over the...
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Russia issued a last ultimatum to Ukrainian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol on Wednesday to surrender. The city's defenders, pleading for international assistance, declared that they were "probably facing our last days, if not hours," the Los Angeles Times reported. Meanwhile, Kyiv...
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Ukrainian officials are hurrying to evacuate the last residents from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russia launches a fresh military attack near the area's key population centers, the Wall Street Journal wrote. Meanwhile, UN officials said humanitarian ceasefires between Ukrainian and Russian...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded an honorary title to a military unit accused of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, Axios reported Monday. Ukrainian authorities had accused Russia’s 64th Motorized Infantry Brigade of being "directly involved in committing war crimes against the people of Ukraine...
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The island of Jersey, a British territory and tax haven in the English Channel, recently froze $7 billion of assets owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. That’s around half the Chelsea football club owner’s wealth, noted Fortune. He’s been ordered to sell the team too,...
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Russian forces seized most of the besieged city of Mariupol over the weekend, according to Russian officials, as the conflict enters its second month, CNBC reported. The Russian army also told Ukrainian fighters that their lives “will be spared” if they lay down their...
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Russia threatened Thursday to deploy nuclear weapons around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden decide to join NATO, according to CNBC. The warning comes only a day after Finland and Sweden – prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – stated they will...
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Russian forces commenced airstrikes on Ukrainian positions inside the besieged city of Mariupol early Wednesday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that peace negotiations with Kyiv had failed, while troops from both sides exchanged fire ahead of an expected escalation of bloodshed,...
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The United States and the United Kingdom are investigating reports that Russian forces used chemical weapons in their onslaught on the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, according to the BBC. Russian-backed forces denied the allegations, Al Jazeera noted. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that “tens of thousands” of people may have been killed in the besieged city of Mariupol, adding that Russian forces “are not halting their onslaught,” Sky News wrote. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, United Nations officials estimate...
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Ukrainian officials have discovered a mass grave containing dozens of civilian victims in the town of Buzova near the capital, Radio Free Europe reported. Meanwhile, a Russian missile struck a train station in the town of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 52...
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Hundreds of volunteers from Belarus have joined a dedicated Belarusian battalion and other formations of Ukrainian armed forces fighting the Russian army, with more than 1,000 others still awaiting vetting and training, the Wall Street Journal reported. Meanwhile, Freedom for Russia, a second force...
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