U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that Russia has pledged to send Washington its terms for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Andriy Portnov, a top aide to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead outside the gates of a school in the Spanish town of Pozuelo de Alarcón on Wednesday, Sky News and Reuters report.

A local official in Russia’s Kursk region told Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that annexing Ukraine’s Sumy region is necessary for national security. “Sumy should be ours,” said Pavel Zolotaryov, head of the Glushkovsky District, at a meeting between municipal…

Chinese tourism to Russia is booming — believe it or not. In 2024, four times as many Chinese nationals visited Russia through tour operators as in the previous year. Official data show that 106,700 Chinese travelers arrived in the first quarter of 2025 —…

Russia’s justice minister has proposed introducing “the defense of moral values” as a new basis for exemption from criminal liability. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, Konstantin Chuychenko said, “Currently, individuals can be exempted…

After kicking off peace negotiations in February with a phone call to Vladimir Putin, earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump had to call his Russian counterpart again. Months of talks, public spats, backchannel pressure, and high-stakes diplomacy…

After several years of rapid, war-driven growth, the Russian economy has begun to cool. Oil prices remain well below their peak levels, and the U.S. Department of Energy has already lowered its 2025 forecast for Brent crude’s spot price. Meanwhile, the European…

Andriy Portnov, a former top aide to ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead in a wealthy neighborhood outside Madrid on Wednesday. The ex-official was reportedly killed shortly after dropping off his children at the American School of…

U.S. President Donald Trump privately told European leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not prepared to end the war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the conversation. The remarks reportedly…

Russian air defense forces shot down 35 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow on Wednesday night, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

Officers from the Russian Investigative Committee raided the homes of relatives of Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova, Mediazona reported on Thursday, citing the activists themselves.

U.S. President Donald Trump told European leaders on May 19 that the next round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place at the Vatican, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the conversation.

The Russian state-sponsored hacker group known as Fancy Bear hacked into security cameras in an effort to surveil Western aid deliveries to Ukraine and disrupt supplies routes, The Guardian reported on Thursday, citing the intelligence services of the U.K.…

More than 20 Russian-born residents of Serbia have been left stateless after giving up their Russian citizenship in order to receive Serbian passports, only to be denied them, The Moscow Times reported on Thursday.

Two weeks ago, a Russian soldier became so desperate to break his army contract that he attempted suicide — and effectively livestreamed the act. Pavel Stovchan, a 35-year-old contract fighter whose social media profile still reads "Keep working, brothers…

At 4:00 p.m. on May 24, Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo will activate his Expanded Memorial for Alexey Navalny at Meduza’s “No” art exhibition in Berlin. Visitors will be able to take home a miniature figurine of the late opposition politician, in…

Ukrainian drones targeted the city of Yelets in Russia’s Lipetsk region overnight. According to Governor Igor Artamonov, debris from one of the drones, shot down by air defenses, fell on a residential building, damaging around 20 apartments.

Ukraine has proposed that E.U. countries begin contributing to the funding of its armed forces starting in 2026, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said following a meeting of G7 finance officials.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G7 countries discussed the possibility of lowering the agreed price cap on Russian oil if Moscow refuses to agree to a ceasefire, Reuters reported on Friday.

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…