In January, Ingushetia natives Ramzan Padiev and Batukhan Tochiev were arrested on charges of murdering Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the highest-ranking Russian military official to be assassinated since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Kirillov and his assistant were killed in mid-December 2024 when a bomb went off outside his apartment

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“Grandma, I miss you. I want you to come back as soon as possible.”

These were the words in a video recorded by Lyubov Prilutskaya and her children in hopes of convincing her elderly parents, who wound up under Ukrainian occupation when Kyiv launched its Kursk region incursion in August 2024, to evacuate to safety.

For over seven months, Prilutskaya

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At least one person was killed and another seriously wounded in a rare midday Ukrainian drone strike on southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, authorities said Friday.

“The worst has happened — a civilian was killed by a drone strike in the village of Dobrino in the Rakityansky district,” Belgorod region Governor Vyach

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Belarus' Interior Ministry denied Friday that its law enforcement agents utilized violence while apprehending Russian stand-up comedian Artemyi Ostanin earlier this week.A member of Russia's presidential human rights council stated Thursday that Ostanin was beaten with batons before being transferred to Russia, sharing an image showing his back covered in
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested prominent anti-war journalist Sasha Alexandrova on charges of “terrorist propaganda,” media in the republic of Sakha (Yakutia) reported Friday, citing anonymous sources.

Alexandrova, who previously worked for several media outlets in the republic of Sakha before founding her own news platform, left Ru

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German customizeds authorities have actually taken a tanker bring 100,000 lots of oil, which they claim is a part of Russia's sanctions-busting shadow fleet, weekly news publication Der Spiegelreported Friday, mentioning anonymous sources. The Panama-flagged vessel Eventin was traveling from the Russian port of Ust-Luga through the Baltic Sea to Egypt when
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