Isabel van Brugen

For the first time since 2020, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov has failed to brief the Russian president about civil aviation developments.

The drills will prepare Russian troops "for the combat use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons," the defense ministry said.

The blaze engulfed 800 square meters of NPO Avtomatiki, a subsidiary of Russia's Roscosmos space agency.

Their disappearances have fueled speculation of a possible group prisoner exchange.

"The American public should know that content that they read online...could be foreign propaganda," an official warned.

A host on Russian state TV alleged that Russia's Foreign Ministry may be working with Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said Russia lost 46 artillery systems in the past day, bringing the total to 16,056.

The Russian president flew on the supersonic, nuclear-capable Tu-160M, also known by its NATO code name "Blackjack," in February.

An advert luring Muscovites to fight in the war in Ukraine was broadcast on state TV last week.

"Where is the fleet? It's gone. This is really a victory of the enemy," State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov said.

State TV propagandists, including Olga Skabeyeva, have often floated the idea of seizing NATO territory during the war.

Kyiv's forces "continue to destroy the military infrastructure of the Russian invaders," Ukraine's General Staff said.

"As a great maritime power, Russia should possess a powerful navy," presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev said.

The measures are the latest adopted by some members of the NATO military alliance to protect against a potential Russian attack.

Russian and Chinese aircraft came within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast this week.

Kyiv's forces struck Crimea with four U.S.-supplied missiles, wounding two Russian servicemen, the Astra Telegram channel said.

The Netherlands and Denmark are sending Ukraine 14 refurbished Leopard 2A4 tanks this summer.

"There is no longer a single Russian warship in the Sea of Azov," Ukrainian navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said.

At least six high-ranking Russian military officials have been detained since late April in the Russian president's purge.

The helicopter's crew was killed in the crash, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has long appealed for permission to use Western weapons to strike targets on Russian soil.

In January, the Baltic States signed an agreement to create a common defense line to bolster NATO's eastern border.

Multiple Russian news outlets reported that Andrei Torgashov, who is reportedly deputy head of a Russian military satellite communications center, was targeted.

Several top Russian officials have plunged to their deaths from windows in recent years, including a top oil executive and a defense official.

A Ukrainian unit said it tracked down the Russian Tor system using a drone, before targeting it with U.S.-supplied HIMARS.

"In [Harris], you have the devil in his purest form," said Oleg Matveychev, a member of Russia's parliament, the State Duma.

Russia lost over 360 warplanes during the course of the Ukraine war, according to figures published by Kyiv.

Russia has relocated many of its warships from annexed Crimea to Novorossiysk due to relentless Ukrainian attacks.

Last year, Russia spent more than 225 million rubles ($2.5 million) on cemetery expansion projects, the Moscow Times reported.

Ukraine has frequently attacked Russian military bases using long-range drones, saying they are legitimate targets in the war.