Several major grain-producing regions in southern Russia and annexed Crimea have declared emergencies in their agricultural sectors due to severe drought and spring frosts.

“Farmers have to work under extremely unfavorable weather conditions this year,” Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar wrote Wednesday on Telegram.

His office said more than

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Fresh Russian drone strikes on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv eliminated three individuals and injured a minimum of 60 others early Wednesday, including numerous kids, Ukrainian officials said.Russia has launched record varieties of drones and rockets at Ukraine in recent weeks, intensifying more than three years of day-to-day barrages while
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Russia's budget deficit rose by 168 billion rubles ($2.18 billion) in May, bringing the total for the first five months of 2025 to 3.4 trillion rubles ($44.2 billion), or 1.5% of GDP, according to the Finance Ministry.

That is nearly five times higher than the same period of 2024 and nearly equal to the entire deficit planned for the full year — 3

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The governor of Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region dismissed his entire cabinet on Tuesday after Russia’s top prosecutor asked regional law enforcement authorities to restore the issuance of government payments to the families of soldiers killed in Ukraine.

Zabaikalsky region Governor Alexander Osipov said his deputies and regional ministers will

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Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday exchanged a new group of prisoners of war under a deal reached during last week’s peace talks in Istanbul, both sides said.

“A second group of Russian military personnel was returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. “A group of prisoners of war of the

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A woman was killed and four other people were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on a gas station in the southwestern city of Belgorod, authoritiessaid Tuesday.

“We were hoping for the best until the last moment,” Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. “But unfortunately, one civilian was killed and four were injured.”

He

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