The Latest Breaking News from Russia

Odesa port severely damaged in overnight Russian missile strikes

Russia has ramped up attacks on Ukraine’s grain exports after the Black Sea Grain initiative collapsed in July

Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2023

Putin gives defence chief one month deadline to stop Ukrainian counteroffensive in its tracks

Russian president instructs his defence minister to stop Kyiv’s troops, according to US-based think-tank

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 579 of the invasion

Southern port of Odesa hit by Russian missiles overnight; at least one person killed in attack on Beryslav

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine claims to have killed commander of Russia’s Black Sea fleet — as it happened

Ukraine says 34 officers were killed including Black Sea fleet admiral Viktor Sokolov in its missile strike on Sevastapol last week

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25, 2023

Russia says it is repelling attacks over Crimea, Belgorod regions

The Russian-installed head of Sevastopol in Russian-annexed Crimea on Monday said air defence forces were fending off an aerial attack over the peninsula. Russian air defences also saw action in the region of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, over which seven Ukrainian drones were destroyed, the Russian defence ministry wrote on Telegram.…

France 24 · Sep 25, 2023

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin’s Black Sea fleet commander ‘killed in attack on Crimea navy HQ’

The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces also claimed that 105 others were injured

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

Ukraine is building an advanced army of drones. For now, pilots improvise with duct tape and bombs

The Ukrainian government wants to spend more than $1 billion to build an army of drones

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

Russian news outlet in Latvia believes European state behind phone hack

Galina Timchenko, the CEO of Meduza, was hacked earlier this year before participating in a meeting of exiled Russian journalists

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

Drones attack Black Sea, Crimea and parts of Russia where thousands suffered power cuts

Latest drone attacks affect air traffic as flights diverted from Moscow’s two major airports

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023

North Korea calls South's leader a 'guy with a trash-like brain' as it slams his UN speech

North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023