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Russian special forces killed two people suspected of plotting terror attacks in a shootout in the country's south on Thursday, the country's National Antiterror Committee said. According to the committee's statement, the suspects were blockaded on the outskirts of Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria republic, and opened fire on special forces of the Federal Security Service. The committee did not give details of the actions that the suspects were believed to be planning, but the shootout came amid heightened security concerns after the March 22 attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall...
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Ukraine fired at least eight missiles at Russia’s Belgorod border region, killing two people and wounding 12, local officials said on Thursday. Russia also said it repelled cross-border incursions by Ukrainian forces in the same area and neighbouring Kursk. Moscow claims its troops killed 195 Ukrainian soldiers, destroyed five tanks and four armoured infantry vehicles - just two days after saying it killed 234 Ukrainian troops in another border assault. It is not possible to independently verify these claims. Cross-border attacks in the area have occurred sporadically since the war began and h...
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Russian forces launched S-300 missiles against residential areas in Kostiantynivka, causing intense damage to buildings. Euronews interviewed resident Vitaliy, who says he has lost everything of the building he has lived in for over 70 years. Russia's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said that comments made by U.S Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin were "irresponsible", after Austin warned on Thursday that NATO would be drawn into war if Ukraine is ultimately defeated by Russia. Peskov condemnend the remark as a statement that would " lead to further escalation of tension". Meanwhile Russian Pres...
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A Russian rocket on Thursday successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlined the increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Russia's state-run Roscosmos corporation said that a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch facility in the country's far east to carry the Iranian satellite and 18 Russian satellites into orbit. The Iranian state TV said the 110-kilogram satellite has three cameras to take images for environmental, agricultural and other purposes. Iran's state TV said the satellite will be put into orbit around the North an...
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Citizens of Moscow and foreign diplomats have paid tribute to Russian opposition leader Boris Nemstov on the anniversary of his murder in 2015. Nemstov, who served as deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, was shot as he walked across a bridge with his girlfriend. Five men from Chechnya were ultimately convicted for his murder in 2017. The US ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, was among those to lay a floral tribute on the bridge where Nemstov was killed. The US Embassy and Consulate in Russia released a statement saying: " As we remember Boris Nemtsov and his legacy, we also recognize tho...
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The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a direct conflict between NATO and Russia would be an "inevitability" if the military alliance deployed troops to Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was reacting to statements on the potential deployment of NATO troops at an international conference held in Paris on Monday. Peskov said that discussing the possibility of sending "certain contingents" from NATO into Ukraine is a "very important new element". "It is not in the interests of these countries, and they should be mindful," he said. "In that case (of sending troops...
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The body of Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, the spokesperson of the late Russian opposition leader confirmed on Saturday, more than a week after he died in a penal colony. "Lyudmila Ivanovna is still in Salekhard. The funeral is still pending. We do not know if the authorities will interfere to carry it out as the family wants and as Alexei deserves," Kira Yarmysh added on X, formerly Twitter. Navalny, 47, died unexpectedly on Feb 16 in the penal colony in the Arctic Circle where he had been serving a 19-year sentence on charges of "extremism". But his family was initially d...
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Donald Trump has compared his legal troubles to the persecution of Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic prison last week. Speaking to Fox News, the former US president called the Russian dissident's imprisonment and death a "very sad situation", suggesting he probably should not have returned to Russia. Trump did not assign any blame for Navalny's death, however. US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have pointed to Vladimir Putin. In the hour-long interview, Trump claimed the recent $355 fine handed to him in a New York fraud trial was a "form of Navalny". "It is a form of c...
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