A large-scale prisoner exchange in between Russia and Ukraine-- the only concrete result of peace talks-- was thrown into doubt Saturday after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of postponing and thwarting the swap.The hold-up to an exchange that both sides stated would happen this weekend came as Moscow's army introduced a barrage of rockets, drones

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Ukraine said Saturday that its forces shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet over the Kursk region.Russia pressed Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk area in late April, months after Kyiv released a vibrant cross-border offensive there in August 2024. This early morning, on June 7, 2025, as a result of a successful Air Force operation in the Kursk direction,

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Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly took apart Central Asia's highest monolith to Vladimir Lenin, the advanced creator of the Soviet Union.Ex-Soviet states throughout the area are looking for to reinforce their nationwide identities, relabeling cities that have Russian-sounding names and replacing statues of Soviet figures with local and

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Russia's National Guard said Friday it had killed a man it caught trying to launch an attack on a military site using drones packed with grenades.

The incident came after Ukraine carried out an audacious coordinated drone attack on Russian airbases this week that damaged billions of dollars' worth of nuclear-capable military planes.

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Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber airplanes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation professionals, straining a modernization program that is already delayed.Satellite images of airfields in Siberia and Russia's far north program comprehensive damage from the attacks, with a number of

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Most Russians no longer consider the United States their country’s main enemy, according to a Levada Center survey released Thursday, as Donald Trump’s return to the White House fuels hopes of a diplomatic thaw between Moscow and Washington.

The share of respondents who named the U.S. as the most hostile country toward Russia has nearly halved to

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