Russia

FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has announced that Wagner Mercenary Group is to continue its operations in Africa and its troops are set to remain in place following the aborted armed mutiny by Wagner mercenary fighters in Russia on Saturday. Speaking in an interview with Russia Today, Lavrov said that the […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Western officials said Russia’s forces in Ukraine are so badly depleted that Russia may lack the reserves to effectively respond to a major counteroffensive from Ukrainian troops in the coming weeks. One official said Russia does not appear to have a dedicated reserve force to react to a major breakthrough […]

Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Russian Federation will on April 1 take over the presidency of the U.N. Security Council, a shift in power that may seem extraordinary amid the war in Ukraine. Despite the international condemnation and the allegations of President Vladimir Putin’s forces committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine, […]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A year ago, President Vladimir Putin plunged Russia into the war in Ukraine, pulling his country into a bloody military debacle and reigniting a global stand-off with Western countries. Nearly 200,000 Russian troops are estimated to have been killed or wounded in the past 12 months. Over […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (LONDON) — As tens of thousands of Russian troops lined up along Ukraine’s eastern and northern borders for “military exercises” last February, some international observers warned that Russia was about to do the unthinkable. President Joe Biden had declassified intelligence in the weeks prior that showed an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty was imminent. […]