Police discovered the body of a man with a gunshot wound in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district on Thursday morning.

In a bid to promote its new messaging app, Max, the Russian tech giant VK has enlisted Internet-famous celebrities to sing its praises. But their boilerplate endorsements have found only one thing to be impressed with: the app works. The push comes amid reports…

Sheila Fitzpatrick is one of the world’s leading experts on the Soviet period, with more than 60 years of experience researching Stalinism and the history of the USSR and Eastern Europe. Most of her work focuses on everyday life under Communism, as well as…

Just hours after former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit’s memorial service on Thursday, the Kremlin’s propaganda machine retracted reports that President Vladimir Putin had sent a funeral wreath to the farewell ceremony. 

Russian budget expenditures on military personnel participating in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine reached approximately 2 trillion rubles (roughly $25.8 billion at the current exchange rate) in the first half of 2025, according to analysts at Re: Russia.…

A Russian appellate court has jailed a 55-year-old trucker on suspicion of aiding the Ukrainian military in drone attacks on June 1 against several major Russian Air Force bases. Court records reviewed by Mediazona show that Mikhail Ryumin was arrested on…

Russia’s Federal Security Service has opened a criminal case against two journalists who reported from Sudzha in August 2024 while the town was under Ukrainian occupation. Pyotr Ivanov and Ruslan Terekhov, who no longer reside in Russia, face charges of illegal…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Malaysia on Thursday to discuss a path towards ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. The talks, which marked the first high-level meeting between U.S. and Russian officials…

U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to send a new weapons transfer to Ukraine using Presidential Drawdown Authority — marking the first such move since he returned to the White House, according to Reuters, which cited two sources familiar with the matter.

Russian forces launched an overnight drone strike on Ukraine’s Kharkiv, targeting the city’s Saltivka neighborhood, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

In a new interview with Expert magazine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov defended the Russian government’s tightening grip on the media, calling wartime censorship “justified.” The surge in patriotic messaging across Russian newsrooms, he argued, isn’t propaganda…

Sergey Ilyin, commander of Russia’s 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, has been killed in the war. A message announcing his death appeared on July 10 on the VKontakte page of the administration of the Urmarsky District in the Chuvash Republic. The post…

In December 2024, thousands of tons of mazut — a heavy, low-grade oil product thatʼs mainly used in power plants — leaked from wrecked tankers and washed up on the coast of Anapa, a popular tourist destination near the Sea of Azov. The spill created immediate…

Euromaidan activist Andriy Kolomiyets, who was imprisoned in Russia for the past 10 years, is now a former political prisoner. At a press conference in Kyiv on July 11, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi announced that Kolomiyets was “back on Ukrainian…

A new executive order from Vladimir Putin affirms the foundations of Russia’s state language policy, pledging to “preserve, develop, and support” the Russian language, the state languages of Russia’s republics, and other languages of the peoples of the Russian…

Colonel Ivan Voronych, who was shot dead in Kyiv on July 10, served in Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency and had been with the agency for decades, according to The New York Times. Voronych had for a time commanded the special operations unit known as…

Spanish police in Girona have arrested Dmitry Artyakov, the son of Rostec Vice President Vladimir Artyakov. The arrest was reported by the investigative Telegram channel All Exclusive, citing a source in Spanish law enforcement.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said suspected Russian intelligence agents were behind last week’s killing of Ivan Voronych, a colonel in the agency. The two suspects were shot dead after resisting arrest in the Kyiv region, according to the SBU.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Pyongyang is prepared to continue supporting the Russian authorities in their efforts to “resolve the situation” in Ukraine, according to North Korea’s state news agency KCNA.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has put forward First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine’s new prime minister, he said on July 14.