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Britain warned Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin that “we know what you’re doing” after the Royal Navy tracked what it called a “Russian spy ship” traveling through U.K. waters, amid rising concerns of potential sabotage by Russia-linked vessels.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) have detained three high-ranking Ukrainian military officials accused of failing to properly defend the Kharkiv region during a Russian offensive in May 2024.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his embattled nation had been slammed by more than 1,000 Russian projectiles over the past week, prompting him to renew his urgent plea for additional air defense weapons, particularly the U.S.-made Patriot missile system.
A fire broke out late on January 17 at an industrial site in Russia's Kaluga region south of Moscow after it was hit by drones.
A Russian court sentenced three lawyers of Aleksei Navalny to lengthy prison sentences for carrying correspondence from the late anti-corruption crusader out of prison, prompting his supporters at the hearing to erupt into chants of "heroes."
Ukraine launched a massive attack on targets inside Russian territory on January 14, hitting weapons production plants, oil refineries and warehouses.
Drones crashed into two apartment buildings in the town of Kotovsk in the Tambov region of western Russia, injuring several people, the region’s governor said early on January 11.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said a heavily loaded oil tanker that Germany's maritime emergencies agency had to secure on January 10 in the Baltic Sea is part of the "shadow fleet" that Moscow uses to avoid sanctions on its oil exports.
Russia accused Ukraine of conducting a deadly missile strike on a supermarket in the Moscow-controlled city of Donetsk, while Kyiv reported a massive wave of Russian drone attacks on several regions and fierce fighting near the strategic logistics hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said again that he is eager to see negotiations with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine begin soon after he returns to the White House but gave no specifics on when they would take place.
The Ukrainian military has launched a new assault in Russia’s Kursk region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry and battlefield reports, with Kyiv reporting that "combat clashes" were under way in the region
Ukraine can expect more announcements in coming days about additional U.S. security assistance, a White House spokesman said as President Joe Biden’s term in office winds down.
Finland's national power grid operator (Fingrid) is seeking the formal seizure of the oil tanker suspected of damaging an electric power cable in the Baltic Sea last month.
The United States has imposed sanctions against the Russian judge who sentenced human rights activist Alexei Gorinov to seven years in jail for speaking against the war in Ukraine.
Russian natural gas supplies to Europe via a pipeline traversing Ukraine are set to end on January 1 as a contract on the flow of gas that Ukraine refused to renegotiate is expires.
At least 63 kilometers of coastline in Russia's southern region of Kuban has been covered by heavy fuel oil from two oil tankers that ran aground in the ecologically sensitive waters off Ukraine's Moscow-annexed Crimean Black Sea coast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 30 signed a decree transferring shares of the foreign brewing company AB InBev Efes Russia to the temporary management of the Russia’s Vmeste group of companies.
Russia and Ukraine have conducted another prisoner swap brokered by the United Arab Emirates, freeing hundreds of prisoners of war.
Finland said drag marks from an anchor have been found on the Baltic Sea floor in an area where several power and data cables were damaged, which authorities suspect was caused by a vessel linked to Russia's "shadow fleet."
Germany’s foreign minister described the suspected sabotage of a Baltic Sea power cable as a “wake-up call” for the West and urged the European Union to impose new sanctions targeting what is known as Russia’s “shadow fleet.”
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