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Russia Takes Blocks in Lyman, Forces Kramatorsk Industry to Flee West

New Delhi, June 14 -- MOSCOW - Three months after Russia shifted the main thrust of its Spring-Summer offensive toward Konstantinovka, the pressure cracked something beyond a front line on Sunday. Kyi... Read More


Royal Marines Board Smyrtos in English Channel, Britain's First Solo Seizure of a Russia Shadow Fleet Tanker

New Delhi, June 14 -- WEYMOUTH, England - The tanker that Royal Marine Commandos seized in the English Channel on Sunday had already changed its name once and its flag at least twice before anyone sto... Read More


Russia Presses Pokrovsk Front as Moscow Reports Fresh Gains in Donetsk..

India, June 14 -- The Russian Defense Ministry says its soldiers are tightening their grip on the approaches to Pokrovsk, the battered logistics town in the Donetsk region that both armies have treate... Read More


Japan Quietly Reopens Its Channels to Moscow, and Its G7 Allies Are Not Happy

TOKYO, June 13 -- Japan has quietly reopened high-level channels to Moscow, sending officials and business leaders to the Russian capital and returning to Russian oil, a pragmatic drift that has unset... Read More


A Russian Banker Takes Sick Leave, and the West Writes Her a Coup

MOSCOW, June 12 -- Elvira Nabiullina, the woman who has run Russia's central bank since 2013 and held the ruble together through four years of the most aggressive sanctions in modern history, took sic... Read More


Russia Warns Ground Operation in Iran Would Trigger Irreparable Consequences

New Delhi, June 10 -- MOSCOW - The negotiators have not left the table. That may be the only reason the word "irreparable" still feels like a warning rather than a verdict. Maria Zakharova, the Russi... Read More


Russia Seizes on EU Refugee Debate as Zakharova Claims Europe Is Pushing Ukrainians to the Front

New Delhi, June 10 -- The day European Union interior ministers sat down in Luxembourg to discuss whether military-age Ukrainian men should continue receiving refugee protection, Maria Zakharova was a... Read More


Zakharova Claims Europe Is Drawing Up Lists to Send Ukrainian Refugees to the Front

MOSCOW, June 10 -- In Turku, a Ukrainian woman in her mid-thirties recently told a Finnish broadcaster she had taken a warehouse job she did not want because it was the fastest path to a work-based re... Read More


A Car Bomb Outside Moscow Reportedly Kills the General Who Armed Russia's War

MOSCOW, June 10 -- The morning began the way the neighbors have learned to dread. At about 5:30 am on Tuesday, a BMW X3 pulling away from a residential building in Balashikha, just east of Moscow, exp... Read More


Russia's State Duma Passes Resolution Demanding End to US Sanctions on Cuba, North Korea and Iran

MOSCOW, June 10 -- For the past several months, Volodin and the Kremlin's diplomatic corps had been saying the same things about Cuba through speeches, press conferences, and ministerial statements. O... Read More