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Wagner Chief: Nerve agents, poison and window falls. Over the years, Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed
TALLINN: The attacks range from the exotic – poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent – to the more mundane of…
Prigozhin: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s presumed death removes one problem, may create new ones for Vladimir Putin
LONDON : The presumed death of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a fiery plane crash leaves Russian president Vladimir Putin stronger in the short term,…
US intelligence: Plane crash that killed Wagner Group leader deliberately caused by explosion
WASHINGTON: US intelligence, in its preliminary assessment, has found that the plane crash which previously was presumed to be an accident and resulted in the…
Ukraine: Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks as Kyiv claims it took out a key S-400 missile defense system
KYIV: Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again and the Kremlin’s forces launching another bombardment of…
Russia: ‘It’s dragged on’: Ukrainians confront slow war gains
KYIV: Rusted Russian tanks, which the Kremlin had hoped would parade victorious through Kyiv days after it invaded Ukraine, have instead been lined up as…
Russia says it repelled border incursion from Ukraine
MOSCOW: Moscow’s forces have repelled an attempt by Ukrainian “saboteurs” to break into the Russian border region of Bryansk, the region’s local governor said Tuesday….
Kyiv saboteurs behind attacks on air bases inside Russia: Report
KYIV: Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases…
Russia’s Vladimir Putin attends Brics summit in South Africa remotely while facing war crimes warrant
JOHANNESBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were both absent as leaders from the Brics group of emerging economies started a three-day…
Africa: China’s Xi heads to South Africa for Brics summit
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping headed to South Africa on Monday, state media reported, where he will attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. The state…
Zelensky says met troops in Ukraine’s frontline Donetsk region
KYIV: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited troops in the frontline region of Donetsk, where Kyiv has been painstakingly clawing back territory from Russian…