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Who is Grigory Melkonyants? Russian election watchdog leader sentenced to five years in prison | World News

Who is Grigory Melkonyants? Russian election watchdog leader sentenced to five years in prison (Photo: AP) A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election monitoring group Golos, to five years in prison on charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, a charge widely condemned by human rights advocates […]

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he will be waiting for Russian leader Putin in Ankara on Thursday for talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (File Photo AP) KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Turkish capital this week to conduct face-to-face talks about the more than three-year war. Putin hasn’t yet said whether he will be at the talks, which US President Donald […]

Gone as Soviet spacecraft, back as Russian debris: Kosmos 482 to hit Earth on Saturday

Representational AI image A Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos 482 is about to fall back to Earth more than 50 years after it failed to reach Venus. Launched in 1972 as part of the USSR’s Venera programme, the aircraft aimed to study the solar system’s hottest planet. But due to a rocket failure, it never left […]

A Russian missile-and-drones attack kills 2 people in Ukraine’s capital

Ukraine, aftermath of attack (AP) KYIV: Russia launched a missile and a barrage of drones targeting the Ukrainian capital before dawn on Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead, Ukrainian officials said. Eight people were also wounded in the attack, including four children, the Kyiv City military administration said in a post on Telegram. The […]

Zelenskyy says does ‘not believe’ Russian truce promises

Czech Republic’s President Petr Pavel and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference at the Prague Castle, Czech Republic (Image: AP) PRAGUE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that he did “not believe” Russia would adhere to a coming three-day truce to coincide with Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations.Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered […]

Watch: Ukraine claims it shot down Russian fighter jet from sea drone for first time

Ukrainian drone downs Russian Su-30 fighter jet Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence (DIU) announced on Saturday, and said this was the world’s first downing of a combat aircraft by a maritime drone.“On May 2, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine special operations […]

Brain removed, bones broken, head shaved, electrocuted: Who was Viktoriia Roshchyna? Ukrainian journalist’s horrific end in Russian custody, says report

When the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties were exchanged in a frozen forest in February, Red Cross officials noted a disturbing anomaly: body number 757 was recorded as “NM SPAS”, an unidentified male, cause of death listed as heart failure. Weeks later, forensic experts identified the corpse: it was Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian […]

Video: Russian general Yaroslav Moskalik killed in car blast near Moscow

A senior Russian general has been killed in a car bombing just outside Moscow, in what authorities described as a targeted assassination likely carried out by Ukrainian special services. The incident, which claimed the life of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, marks the second deadly attack on high-ranking Russian military officials in recent months.The Russian Investigative […]

Russian general killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow

A Russian general was killed by a car bomb Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months that Moscow blamed on Ukraine. The committee said Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the general staff of […]

Russian state TV was celebrating Trump’s surrender before his ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ message: Report

Trump blasted at Putin after Russia’s fresh attack on Kyiv. President Donald Trump’s recent stance in the Russia-Ukraine war entertained Kremlin’s premier propagandists as they reveled how they could not ever imagine that Trump would say that Crimea belongs to Russia. Daily Beast reported that state TV showed the clips of Trump, Vice President JD […]