Russia's top court bans only anti-war party from September election
Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Yabloko, the country's only liberal party campaigning against the war in Ukraine, cannot run in next month's parliamentary elections.
Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Yabloko, the country's only liberal party campaigning against the war in Ukraine, cannot run in next month's parliamentary elections.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Tatarstan region, more than 1,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, killing at least 12 people and injuring 39, regional officials said.
Ukraine's president says Moscow and Pyongyang have agreed to raise North Korea's troop presence in Russia to between 30,000 and 50,000 — a scale that would make it Russia's largest foreign troop contribution and give Pyongyang combat experience with implications far beyond Europe.
A drone crashed and exploded near a natural gas pipeline in Bulgaria on Saturday, in a field near the Romanian border and the Black Sea.
A new Italian study finds Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence campaigns running side by side against Italy's institutions, each exploiting the same openings.
After migrants crossed in large numbers into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, Spain and Italy began checking IDs at their shared borders again, straining the EU's normally open-border area known as Schengen.
Russian missiles hit the region around Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, overnight, killing three people including a child and injuring several others, local officials said.
The European Union has added five more people to its sanctions list over Russia's renewed missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
US intelligence believes Russian President Vladimir Putin might try a small military attack on a NATO country to test the alliance's response, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Kyiv had its worst night yet of Russian missile strikes, with air defenses failing to stop many missiles, including one that hit a resident's home.
The European Commission has given Ukraine an initial €1.4 billion, paid for not with Russia's frozen central bank reserves themselves but with the interest those reserves have earned since being frozen after Russia's 2022 invasion.
Ukraine's government told Reuters that a North Korean missile unit has arrived inside Russia to help fight the war, going beyond the troops and supplies North Korea has already sent.