The Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, have agreed in principle to limit the entry of Russian citizens who want to enter from their own country or Belarus. Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said the measures would be effective later this month. Exceptions will be made, for example, for people […]
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The Ukrainian secret service was behind the murder of journalist Daria Dugina, the daughter of Putin’s domestic ideologist Alexander Dugin. At least, that is what the Russian intelligence service FSB decides after the investigation into the murder that was completed well one day after the facts. According to the FSB, […]
Russia ends all restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. For example, the mask obligation and restrictions in the catering industry will be abolished, consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has announced. The rules may be lifted thanks to the steady decline in deaths from the virus. Should the situation worsen […]
A meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine is only possible after the resumption of peace negotiations between the two countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this during a visit to Turkey. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has long wanted to sit down with his Russian counterpart Vladimir […]
An agreement has been reached to deliver Ukrainian grain from the hitherto blocked port of Odesa. That writes the Kremlin-loyal newspaper Izvestia, based on sources in the Russian government. Russia and Turkey are said to have agreed on a roadmap whereby Turkey would mine the coastal area near Odesa […]
The Russians currently have the upper hand in the battle in the hotly contested eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. A Ukrainian general acknowledged that, but he also said that Ukraine is doing everything it can and doing everything it can. Observers expect that the Russians want to completely conquer Luhansk […]
Moscow-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine have removed road signs bearing the name of the almost entirely conquered city of Mariupol in Ukrainian and English and replaced them with signs in Russian. The Ministry of Transport of the self-declared People’s Republic of Donetsk said in a statement. The ministry also […]
Russia seeks complete control of the eastern Donbas region and southern Ukraine to build a land bridge to the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, a senior Russian general said this on Friday. “Since the beginning of the second phase of the special […]
Greek authorities have seized a Russian oil tanker off the island of Evia. In addition, new European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine have banned ports in the Member States from allowing ships flying the Russian flag to enter. The Greek shipping ministry said that the nearly 250-meter […]
According to the Ukrainian border guard, more than 38,000 people re-entered the country on Saturday. In the other direction, about 32,000 Ukrainians have fled their country. However, Mayor Vitali Klitschko of Kyiv’s capital warns that it is still too early for citizens to return. Russia is again ramping up […]
