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The International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations should strictly demand that the Russians leave the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and hand it over to the control of a special commission. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President's Office, wrote this on his…

Russians called up as part of the partial mobilization go through military training in Rostov on October 21, 2022. Arkady Budnitsky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A video posted to social media appears to show a Russian soldier describing bleak conditions on the front lines in Kherson.He said that some troops mixed water from the river in…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the United States, European Union, United Kingdom and numerous other jurisdictions implementing the most draconian economic sanctions ever imposed on a major economy. While those economic sanctions continue to be progressively tightened, jurisdictions opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine also…

November 25, 2023 at 3:41 p.m. ESTRostyslav Lavrov shows the selfie he and his friend, Denys Berezhnyi, took after arriving in Kyiv. (Alice Martins for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveKYIV — The Russian missing child poster went up in Crimea soon after Rostyslav Lavrov escaped last month.“HELP FIND,”…

According to a federal indictment unsealed in Florida last week, Russian intelligence manipulated and co-opted multiple U.S. political groups as part of a “malign influence campaign” to “sow discord, spread pro-Russia propaganda, and interfere in elections in the United States.” As a former intelligence officer, I recognize the tactic, and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — If a warm handshake with Russian President Vladimir Putin weren’t provocative enough, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban went into an EU summit Thursday saying he was right to meet the EU’s foremost enemy and that most of the other leaders were wrong.Orban characterized himself as the…

Prison cells installed at the Philharmonic Hall in Mariupol, Ukraine, in this image released via social media on August 6. (Mariupol City Council/Reuters) There are growing concerns over the trials of prisoners of war scheduled to take…

FILE PHOTO - The lobby of Twitch Interactive Inc, a social video platform and gaming community owned by Amazon, is seen in San Francisco, California, U.S., March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Elijah NouvelageRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterLONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A court in Russia has fined streaming service Twitch 2 million…

Vitaly Kuzmin Ukraine has destroyed several Russian long-range air defense systems in the last week, the UK MoD said. It suggests Russia's Integrated Air Defence System can't cope with hi-tech precision strike weapons. Unconfirmed reports said that Ukraine used US-provided ATACMS to strike at the Russian systems. Ukraine has likely…

View of damage after the shelling of a private residential complex, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, August 29, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. SES Ukraine/via REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterMOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Russian defence ministry said on Monday that Ukraine's troops have attempted…