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  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin twice to watch out for threats to his life. The Belarusian leader’s comments came just days after a plane believed to be carrying Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary group Wagner, crashed in a field northwest of …

Russian paramilitary fighters will have to swear an oath to the Russian flag, a presidential decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, August 25 stipulates, two days after the reported death of Wagner mercenary group chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.   The measure is aimed at “forming the spiritual and moral foundations …

An unmanned Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency on Sunday, August 20.    The pilotless spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to land on the south pole of the moon, an area where scientists believe …

A Russian missile slammed into the center of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 100, including 12 children, Ukrainian officials said. The missile tore through the main square just before noon, as people were leaving church after celebrating a holy day, …

Ukrainian forces have retaken the tiny village of Urozhaine, moving farther into the Mokri Yaly River Valley in the south of the country, after more than a week of battling Russian troops, as Kyiv pushed on with a grinding counteroffensive that has struggled to break through entrenched Russian lines. “Urozhaine …

Russian state media footage shows a fire at a gas station in the southern city of Makhachkala. There were no immediate reports of foul play or connection to the war in Ukraine.

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Air raid sirens activated across eastern, central and western Ukraine as the air force warns of Russian missile threat. Air raid sirens were activated across most of Ukraine and explosions have been heard in the western Ukrainian region of Lviv bordering Poland, local officials and media reported. …

Russian shelling has killed seven people, including a 23-day-old infant, and wounded 20 others in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson, prompting local officials to declare a day of mourning. Kyiv reclaimed part of Kherson from Russian occupation last November, but Kremlin troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas …

A new textbook published by the Russian government says that the West is attempting to destroy Russia.   Excerpts from Russian media, reports that students would now be taught that if president Vladimir Putin hadn’t launched his “special military operation” against Ukraine, human civilization may have ended. Vladimir Medinsky, a …

A Russian court on Friday handed Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition campaigner, a new, 19-year sentence on charges of supporting “extremism” and ordered him imprisoned under the harshest conditions. The sentence demonstrated the widening scope of repression under President Vladimir V. Putin and threatened to further isolate his most …