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Russia Claims a Strike on the Flamingo's Maker. The Claim Is Also a Disclosure.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- The Russian defence ministry does not usually name the company. Its statement on Friday said attack drones had struck an industrial site in the Kyiv region, and then it identified ... Read More


Russia Calls France's Tanker Seizures Piracy. Its Own Lawyers Have a Better Argument.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- The word Moscow keeps reaching for is the one word that guarantees it loses. Artem Studennikov, who runs the First European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Nov... Read More


Moscow Says the Line to Kyiv Is Open. What It Carries Is Prisoner Swaps.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- Every few months a Russian official confirms that the line to Kyiv still works, and every time the confirmation lands the same way: as reassurance about plumbing rather than news ab... Read More


Moscow Says Europe Wants Talks Only to Buy Kyiv a Pause

Mikhail Galuzin, Aug. 28 -- A pause in the fighting means one thing when Moscow declares it and another when Europe suggests it, and the difference is the whole of Russia's position. to keep Ukraine ... Read More


RIA Quoted Him as a US Journalist. He Has Asked Putin for Russian Citizenship.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- The label the wire used was "US journalist." Almost everything difficult about the story sits in what those two words leave out. Christopher Helali told RIA Novosti this week that ... Read More


Ukraine Strikes Near Europe's Largest Nuclear Plant Kill Russian Nuclear Specialist, Wound 17

ENERHODAR, Aug. 23 -- The shift bus to Europe's largest nuclear power station leaves early, and by six in the morning on August 18 a group of workers was already waiting at the stop. A drone came down... Read More


A Drone Hit a Turkish-Run Ship in the Black Sea. Nobody Has Claimed It.

ISTANBUL, Aug. 22 -- Eleven men got off the RMS TEAM. The twelfth did not, and by Saturday nobody had found him. The fire started in the accommodation block and the engine room, according to the noti... Read More


Russia Protests Document Checks at Its Riga Embassy. Latvia Copied Them From Moscow.

RIGA, Aug. 22 -- The Russian embassy in Riga stands at number two, Ukrainian Independence Street. Riga city council renamed that stretch of Antonijas iela in March 2022, and the mission spent eight mo... Read More


Jaishankar Goes to Russia With India's Russian Oil Purchases at a Record High

NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 -- In February the White House announced that India had committed to stop importing Russian oil, directly or indirectly, and cut its tariffs on Indian goods from 50 percent to 18 pe... Read More


Russia Says It Downed 211 Drones on Friday. Six Days Earlier the Figure Was 1,478.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22 -- The Russian defence ministry published a number on Friday evening. Between eight in the morning and eight at night, Moscow time, air defence crews on duty intercepted and destroyed ... Read More