President Vladimir Putinsaid Wednesday that Ukraine was carrying out “indiscriminate” attacks on civilians during cross-border incursions into southwestern Russia’s Kursk region that triggered a regionwide state of emergency.

“The Kyiv regime has launched another large-scale provocation, firing indiscriminately with various types of weapons, i

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Residents of Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine are appealing to authorities for help with evacuating and accusing them of taking insufficient action as an apparent attack by Kyiv’s forces continued for a second day.

While armed militants from Ukraine have conducted multiple incursions into Russia’s border regions since last year in r

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The video streaming platform of the Russian social media business VK has actually seen a surge in downloads over the previous week as playback speeds on YouTube plunge in an evident effort by the authorities to throttle the website. VK Video app downloads rose 4.5 times in the very first week of August compared to July's month-to-month average, reaching more than 250

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A Russian military blogger who criticized Moscow's conduct in the Ukraine war was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for spreading "fakes" about the army, the Moscow court system's press service said Wednesday.

Andrei Kurshin, a former soldier, accused Russia of cutting off water access to civilians near the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih and

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Russia’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday denied reports that Ukrainian forces made significant advances into the southwestern Kursk region amid ongoing clashes along the border.

“Air strikes, missile forces, artillery fire and a swift response by units defending the state border in the Kursk region prevented the enemy from advancing deep into the t

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Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday accused Ukraine of opening a "second front" in Africa after Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Kyiv.

"Unable to defeat Russia on the battlefield, the criminal regime of Volodymyr Zelensky has opened a second front in Africa," spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the RIA Novosti news

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