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ABC News Russia’s ambassador to the United States claimed on Sunday that the U.S. Administration didn’t pass “concrete information” through the Russian Embassy in Washington about possible preparations for the terror attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall. “Nothing was passed,” Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov told Russian state news agency TASS while answering […]

Master/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal and international law enforcement are warning of Russian cyber actors using “compromised” internet routers for cyber operations. Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting Ubiquiti EdgeRouters and using their default credentials to break into them, the FBI and its international partners warned in a cyber alert dated Feb. 27. “The U.S. Department […]

peng song/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Russian authorities have given Alexei Navalny’s body back to his mother more than a week after the opposition leader’s death in an Arctic penal colony, according to Navalny’s spokesperson. Spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that a funeral is to come and that they don’t know yet if […]

belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian military aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed Wednesday in western Russia’s Belgorod region, Russian officials said. The “captured” Ukrainian soldiers were being transported to the Belgorod region, located along Russia’s border with Ukraine, as part of an “exchange,” according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of […]

Ukrainian rescue and emergency workers attend the site of a missile attack in Kharkiv on Jan. 23, 2024. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images) (KYIV, Ukraine) — Air raid sirens sounded in Ukraine’s two largest cities just before dawn on Tuesday, as the Russian military again targeted residential areas with a barrage of missiles, killing five […]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been located in a remote penal colony in Siberia after his lawyers and associates have been unable to contact him for nearly three weeks, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. Navalny was located in IK-3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous […]

ABC News (MOSCOW) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been located in a remote penal colony in Siberia after his lawyers and associates have been unable to contact him for nearly three weeks, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. Navalny was located in IK-3 in the village of Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug part […]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s team says they don’t know where he is after the prison camp where he was being held told them he’s no longer there, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Monday. The spokeswoman, Kyra Yarmysh, said his lawyers tried to see Navalny on Monday at the prison but […]

SERGEI ILNITSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has hailed deepening relations between Russia and North Korea during his two-day diplomatic trip to Pyongyang in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday, flying from Beijing where he […]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an “abnormal situation” and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency. Moscow’s lunar […]