Putin’s latest boasts of battlefield success are exaggerated ...
2 days ago · Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.
Yulia Navalnaya discusses Putin, Ukraine, and political ...
23 hours ago · On Wednesday, the independent news outlet TV Rain published a nearly two-hour interview with Yulia Navalnaya — the first she’s given in Russian since her husband, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, died in an Arctic Russian prison in February 2024. During the conversation, Navalnaya spoke about the war in Ukraine, the controversies surrounding …
Russia’s military is trying to intimidate men into enlistment ...
23 hours ago · Military enlistment offices in Moscow have started notifying conscripts that failing to answer their summonses could result in the revocation of their freedom to leave the country, manage property, run a business, register a vehicle, or borrow money.
When a Russian city unveiled a memorial honoring local ...
1 day ago · Recently, residents of Chebarkul, a city in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, were shocked to find the portrait of a convicted murderer displayed on a memorial honoring local soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Public outrage forced officials to take the photo down, but many locals fear it could be put back up once the backlash dies down. Here’s what we know about …
The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition
4 days ago · 00:00 34:28. Last month, as another 30 days of war passed in Ukraine, Russian activists, economists, and politicians in the exiled anti-Kremlin opposition spent much of their time arguing about a banking scandal from the last decade. The debate has been as mystifying to outsiders as it is confusing to those without an education in finance.
Kremlin denies reports that Putin and Trump spoke by phone ...
2 days ago · Source: Interfax. The Kremlin has denied reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone after Trump’s election victory last week. “There was no conversation. This is an obvious example of the quality of the information currently being published, sometimes even in fairly respected outlets.
Reuters: Mood ‘bleak’ in Kyiv and NATO invite ‘less likely ...
2 days ago · The next four or months will be “pivotal” for determining Ukraine’s negotiating position in potential talks to end the war, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a senior official in Kyiv.