A Russian drone strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa killed 2 individuals and injured 14, consisting of children, regional authorities said on Saturday.Moscow has actually stepped up drone and rocket attacks on Ukraine as peace talks initiated by the United States to end the three-year war have actually stalled. Rescuers pulled the bodies of two people from the

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Authorities in the Russian city of Izhevsk declared a state of emergency situation on Friday due to an oil spill on the Starkovka River that happened nearly a month ago.The cause of the May 29 fuel leak, which encompasses an area of 640 square meters in the city near the Volga River, has not yet been determined.Specialists from the regional Natural

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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russian and Ukrainian demands for peace remain “absolutely contradictory,” as recent talks failed to bring the two sides closer to a ceasefire.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators exchanged written proposals at peace talks in Istanbul earlier this month, but aside from agreeing on large-scale prisoner

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Drone production in Russia has actually increased quickly, according to a report released Friday by the Kremlin-associated Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF). The boost comes regardless of international calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine and renewed negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.In May, the volume of combat drones

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Russia's largest lending institution Sberbank appears to have discovered a workaround to Western sanctions and SWIFT restrictions by making it possible for wire transfers to European banks through third-party intermediaries, the independent news outlet The Bell reported Friday.Sberbank and other significant Russian banks were cut off from the SWIFT financial messaging system after Moscow's 2

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A Russian strike on Friday killed five people and wounded 23 others in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has intensified deadly attacks in recent days, regional officials said.

The attack hit the town of Samar, just outside the regional capital of Dnipro, according to Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Serhiy Lysak.

“Russians killed f

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