A former Russian minister and ally of President Vladimir Putin was sentenced Friday to 40 months in prison by a British court for breaching U.K. sanctions — the first conviction of its kind.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, was found guilty earlier this week of six counts of sanctions evasion related to his role in Russian-occupied Crimea. The breaches

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U.S. President Donald Trumpsaid Friday that Russia needs to “get moving” with Ukraine ceasefire talks as his special envoy was expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg later in the day.

“Russia has to get moving. Too many people [are] DYING, thousands a week,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Trump’s frustration with

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Finland's parliament voted all in favor of a proposed restriction on Russians from purchasing home and applying hostile impact on the country, the Finnish Defense Ministrysaid Friday.Finland, which shares the EU and NATO's longest border with Russia, has actually blocked numerous realty purchases by Russian nationals and business over the previous y
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A court in the North African country of Tunisia has ruled to release 11 Russian citizens who were detained in November on allegations of “terrorism,” Russian state media reported Friday.

Russia’s Embassy in Tunisclaimed the group was detained on a “sightseeing” tour of Roman monuments in the municipality of Haidra on the Algerian border, where it sa

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LEEUWARDEN, The Netherlands-- Ninety-one aircraft from 15 NATO states have finished taking part in Exercise Ramstein Flag, a two-week wedding rehearsal of possible cumulative actions to an attack on a fellow member state.While the alliance had held exercises like this even before Russia's 2022 full-scale intrusion of Ukraine, participants said the t
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Estonia has detained a Russia-linked tanker, marking the Baltic nation's very first maritime operation targeting the so-called shadow fleet carrying Russian oil in offense of Western sanctions, the Postimees news outlet reported.The vessel was obstructed in the early hours of Friday near Aegna Island in Muuga Bay as it cruised through Estonian
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