Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Russia

Kremlin says it needs to see more progress after Black Sea grain deal renewal

The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed that Russia had renewed the Black Sea grain deal for two months after achieving some results in talks which had given it "certain hopes", but said more progress had to be made to advance its own interests.

Reuters

Russian train blown off rails by 'sabotage' bomb blast inside occupied Ukraine

Footage showed how the carriages, believed to be carrying grain, were thrown off the track with eight carriages derailed and five overturned close to the village of Chistenkoye in Crimea which is annexed by Russia

Daily Mirror

Who are Russia’s allies in Putin’s war against Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin promised African nations that he would write off their debts and provide free grain in an attempt to bolster alliances across the continent at a two-day summit in St Petersburg last month.

The Week

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Freight train derailed in Crimea as Russia blames ‘interference by outsiders’

Photos showed carriages lying on their side next to the railway line

Evening Standard

Polish news websites hit by DDoS attacks

Several Polish news websites were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that the government said could be the action of Russian hacking groups, the digitalisation minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Reuters

Russian mercenary boss accuses regular army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, on Thursday accused regular Russian army units of pulling back 570 metres north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, leaving his own fighters' flanks exposed.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin critic falls ill with fears she's been poisoned by Russian nerve agent

Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, claims she returned to find her hotel door was mysteriously left open and the “smell of cheap perfume” before falling ill

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

President Bashar al-Assad has always seen time as an ally in the Syrian civil war, along with the Iranian and Russian firepower that helped him defeat his enemies, according to sources familiar with his thinking.

Reuters

US President Joe Biden arrives in Japan for G7 summit

Talks to focus on the war in Ukraine, nuclear disarmament, artificial intelligence, climate change, economic security.

Al Jazeera

Kremlin says freezing of Finland's bank accounts in Russia was forced retaliatory step

The Kremlin said on Thursday that a decision to freeze the bank accounts of Finnish embassies and consulates in Russia was a response to what it called the unfriendly acts of "the collective West", including Finland.

Reuters

How fruitful was Zelenskyy’s European tour?

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy paid a surprise visit to Britain this week, at the end of a whirlwind tour of Europe that also took in Rome, Berlin and Paris. Having been flown to Chequers in an RAF Chinook helicopter, Zelenskyy spent two hours in talks with Rishi Sunak.

The Week

Kyiv weathers 'unprecedented' wave of missiles

KYIV: Ukraine said on Thursday it had downed nearly an entire barrage of Russian missiles overnight, the latest in an "unprecedented" wave of aerial attacks on the capital Kyiv.

Bangkok Post

Putin clashes with own finance minister over damage done to Russian economy by oil sanctions

Putin appears to downplay Anton Siluanov’s concerns by saying the situation is ‘absolutely stable’

The Independent UK

Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies fund fight against Russia

Ukraine's military has purchased hundreds of drones this year using money collected by anti-graft agencies from settlements in corruption cases, officials said on Thursday.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

G7 wrestles with how to prosecute one war and prevent another

Leaders searching for unity on extent of help for Ukraine and how to persuade global south to join China containment effort

Evening Standard

Putin’s Wagner Group ‘private army’ chief slams regular Russian troops for retreating around Bakhmut

The head of Vladimir Putin’s Wagner Group “private army” on Thursday slammed regular Russian troops for retreating around the eastern town of Bakhmut in Ukraine.

The New Daily

Ukraine shoots down 29 missiles over Kyiv in night attack

Ukraine shot down 29 of 30 missiles launched by Russia in overnight air strikes but one person was killed in Odesa.

Reuters

Russia pounds supply lines around Bakhmut as Ukraine reports advances

Russian troops are pounding supply lines near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to try to halt advances by Ukraine's military, according to soldiers near the front line.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Crimea official says rail traffic suspended after derailment

Rail traffic has been suspended between Simferopol, capital of the Crimean peninsula, and the city of Sevastopol, after a freight train carrying grain derailed, the region's Russian-installed leader said on Thursday.

Reuters

NATO reaches back to Cold War past with first major defence plans in decades

NATO will step back to the future at its Vilnius summit in July, with leaders set to approve thousands of pages of secret military plans that will detail for the first time since the Cold War how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack.

Al Jazeera

G7 weighs new sanctions on Russia to end Ukraine war

Existing sanctions are some of the toughest ever imposed on a major economy, but there is still room to tighten.

Evening Standard

Ukraine war: Fresh explosions in Kyiv as Russia targets capital with cruise missiles

In the southern region of Odesa, one person died and two were wounded in a Russian missile attack, according to an official

Al Jazeera

Russian cruise missile attack targets Kyiv, one killed in Odesa

Attack on Kyiv marks the ninth time this month that Russian air raids have targeted the Ukrainian capital.

Reuters

Visiting Ukraine, China's envoy urged all sides to create space for peace talks

Beijing's special envoy noted there was no panacea to the war in Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv earlier this week, but urged all parties to create conditions for peace talks, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters

Japan military hospital to treat injured Ukrainian soldiers

Japan will treat two injured Ukrainian soldiers at a Tokyo hospital run by its military, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, Tokyo's latest support measure following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

1 … 1203 1204 1205 1206

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.