A veteran Russian state media journalist has been killed in an accident on a shooting range in Moscow-annexed Crimea, Russia's main Rossiya Segodnya state media group has said. 

Svetlana Babayeva, the head of the Kremlin-backed media's Crimea bureau, "died due to an accident" while practicing shooting on Friday, Russian agencies quoted the media

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The Russian Navy on Saturday thwarted a drone attack on the Sevastopol port, home to Moscow's Black Sea Fleet in Russia-annexed Crimea, Moscow-installed authorities said. 

"Today, starting at 4:30 a.m. for several hours, various air defense systems in Sevastopol repelled drone attacks," Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram. 

"All

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Norway's counter-intelligence service (PST) on Friday revealed what it said was the true identity of a Russian spy posing as a Brazilian researcher.

The PST named the suspect as Mikhail Mikushin, a Russian born in 1978, who they said had been passing himself off as a 37-year-old Brazilian named Jose Assis Giammaria.

Mikushin is a senior Russian

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The battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has intensified as Russian troops led by the murky Wagner mercenary group relentlessly exchange artillery fire with Ukrainian forces in their attempt to seize the small but strategically important city. 

The fighting, which has grown increasingly deadly in recent days, underscores Russia’s d

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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that on Friday that the partial mobilization campaign declared to boost the Russian military campaign in Ukraine has come to an end.

"The dispatch of citizens called up during mobilization was completed today. The notification of citizens [to report for military duty] has ended," the state-run RIA

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Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who spent more than a decade in a U.S. jail before being returned to Russia in a prisoner swap, was appointed a member of Russia's Civic Chamber by President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Yaroshenko, who was arrested in Liberia in 2010 and extradited to the United States on drug charges, was convicted of cocaine

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