Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny says he has been moved to a small, isolated cell and deprived of family visits, his team announced on social media.

Navalny said he had been placed in a "cramped cell" used for prisoners accused of bad behavior, adding: "Congratulate me!"

Under the toughened detention conditions, he is only allowed

The blasts which destroyed sections of the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea in September were acts of sabotage, Swedish officials confirmed Friday.

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines have been at the center of geopolitical tensions as Russia cut gas supplies to Europe in suspected retaliation

Russian authorities in annexed Crimea are fortifying the peninsula's defensive positions, its governor said Friday in a signal of Moscow’s growing concerns over Ukrainian forces’ push to reclaim captured territories in the south.

Attacks on the Black Sea peninsula have increased in recent weeks as Kyiv presses on with a counteroffensive to retake

The Russian military has dismissed as “fake” a video address by mobilized soldiers who accuse commanders of endangering them during last week's chaotic retreat from southern Ukraine’s city of Kherson, state mediareported Thursday.

In the videopublished Tuesday, the soldiers said they had suffered losses during two days of Ukrainian shelling while