Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in historic multi-country prisoner swap ABC News Video Biden on prisoners freed from Russia: ‘Their brutal ordeal is over’ ABC News WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free The Wall Street Journal Who are the Americans freed from Russian prison? NBC News ‘Day of great joy’: Wall Street Journal’s crusade to free Gershkovich … Read more
Speculation rises over Russia prison swap including Paul Whelan The Hill Biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War could be underway, movements suggest USA TODAY Russia May Free 20-30 Political Prisoners in Historic Exchange With West The Moscow Times Russian-UK dissident Kara-Murza disappears from jail in latest sign a prisoner swap with West may be close Reuters Russia transfers … Read more
Tbilisi, Georgia – Georgia is in flux. Protests erupted in the mountainous nation in the Caucasus region in mid-April over a “foreign agents bill” that requires organisations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas to register as “agents of foreign influence”. Critics see the measure as resembling Russia’s own “foreign agents” law, … Read more
Court expected to issue verdict in espionage trial of The Wall Street Journal reporter on Friday. A Russian prosecutor is seeking an 18-year sentence for American journalist Evan Gershkovich who has been charged with espionage. The court said a verdict is expected to be issued on Friday at 12:00 GMT. The 32-year-old correspondent for The … Read more
At least 31 people have been killed and 112 wounded across Ukraine in a barrage of Russian missile attacks – the deadliest in months. A missile smashed into a children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, on Monday, trapping victims under rubble. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers dug through debris of a part of … Read more
“In a 9,000 square-meter warehouse the enemy used to keep different kinds of missiles, shells for tanks and artillery, boxes with cartridges for firearms,” the law enforcement official said. “Locals heard an explosion after which a massive detonation started. They could see the column of smoke tens of kilometers away.” The official warned that Russia’s … Read more
Russia promises to retaliate after several people in Crimea killed in missile attack. Russia has said the United States bears responsibility for a deadly Ukrainian missile attack on Russian-occupied Crimea. At least four people were killed in the attack and more than 100 others injured, according to Russian authorities.Russia has hit many civilian targets in … Read more
Moscow responds to a broadcasting ban on four Russian outlets that the EU accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda. Russia has banned 81 media outlets from European Union countries in response to broadcast bans imposed on several Russian state media outlets by Brussels last month. The 27-member bloc had banned four Russian media outlets from broadcasting … Read more
Ukraine has been fending off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion since February 2022 with the help of Western weapons. While Russia’s defense ministry claims to have intercepted four of the missiles, fragments of a fifth detonated in mid-air after being struck by air defenses, killing four people and injuring 151 on the ground, according … Read more
Ukrainian energy facilities came under a “massive attack” from Russia overnight, the Ukraine energy ministry said on Saturday, describing it as the eighth time Russia has launched an assault on energy infrastructure in the past three months. “The situation in the energy sector remains difficult,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that hourly electricity … Read more