Moscow investigators on Monday said they сharged an employee of the state-run diamond producer Alrosa, her son and two others in connection with a diamond theft scheme at the company.

Valentina Matyushenkova, an Alrosa employee, is accused of swapping high-value diamonds with cheaper industrial-grade stones between September 2024 and January 2025,

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Russia released a wave of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine overnight, eliminating a minimum of seven people, including six in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials stated Monday.President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired 352 drones and 16 rockets, a few of which he declared were supplied by North Korea. One person was also reported eliminated in Bila Tserkva, a city

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was anticipated to hold important talks with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, simply 48 hours after a significant U.S. strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities.Israel launched airstrikes on Iran's military and nuclear program previously this month, and Tehran has reacted with its own salvos of rockets and

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Ukraine's top military commander vowed to increase the "scale and depth" of strikes on Russia in remarks made public on Sunday.

He said the strikes were proving "effective" and that Kyiv would only attack military targets.

"Of course, we will continue. We will increase the scale and depth," Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky told

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Russia said Sunday that it "strongly condemned" the United States's bombings of nuclear sites in Iran, calling the attacks "irresponsible" and a "gross violation of international law."

"It is already clear that a dangerous escalation has begun, fraught with further undermining of regional and global security," the Russian Foreign ministry added in

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Belarus's top jailed opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was freed alongside over a dozen other political prisoners on Saturday in a surprise release hailed as a "symbol of hope".

His wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who took the mantle of the opposition after his jailing, said the United States helped broker the deal and thanked U.S. President Donald

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