Trump’s State Department refused to recognize Lukashenka in 2020. Today he’s a “friend.”
Trump called Lukashenka his "friend" after the latest prisoner exchange deal. The Belarusian bank financing Russia's shells is back in the dollar system.
A 26-year-old Russian flew into Argentina to break Milei. He’s not flying out
Dmitry Novikov ran Russia's biggest 2024 Latin American influence operation—targeting Milei for backing Ukraine. Argentina caught him in Lanús.
Ukrainian drones target Russia’s main army logistics hub—days before Putin’s Victory parade
Russian monitoring channels say drones reached the 200-hectare Nara complex—the Defense Ministry's hub for distributing military cargo to the Russian armed forces.
Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city
Russia rejects humanitarian corridor as Ombudsman pursues longer route.
France issued 23% more visas to Russians as EU rules tightened
EU governments approved 620,000 Schengen visas in 2025, 10% more than 2024 — even as Brussels promised tighter rules over sabotage and espionage.
Russia is making military training a mandatory school subject in occupied Donbas. Kyiv asks the ICC to act
"Cossack classes" enter the curriculum on 1 September. Ukraine's ombudsman calls it a crime against humanity—and says international silence is complicity.
Russia recruited 994 Armenians for its war. Yerevan is pivoting west anyway.
994 contracts. 204 dead or missing. The country that wouldn't defend Armenia in Karabakh is now extracting Armenian lives at industrial scale.
Ukrainian soldier stumbled into a Russian dugout. Two weeks later he walked out with a POW
A wounded Ukrainian corporal spent 14 days unarmed beside an armed captor. The captor surrendered.
Europe’s defenses arrive in 2030. Putin’s window opens now
Two years of intelligence warnings have met a US troop withdrawal from Germany—the EU's rearmament plan is still four years out.
Pipeline from Russian prison to Ukrainian front gets another recruit: man who shot judge and cut off his genitals
After a 22-year sentence, murderer Sergei Kibalnikov plans to swap a strict-regime colony for a defense ministry contract.
Ukraine is striking Tuapse — Russian refinery town founded by general who engineered Caucasus genocide
Three strikes in two weeks have left the Black Sea port burning, evacuating, and coated in oil rain. The land it sits on was the staging ground for a genocide, one Russia still denies and most of the West has never heard of.
“A direct investment in ammunition flying across the border”: Belarusian defectors warn US sanctions relief is funding Russia’s war
Three rounds of US sanctions relief in seven months. 430 prisoners freed, 838 still jailed—and Lukashenka's banks are back online.
Russia hits two hospitals, kills one woman overnight in strikes on Ukrainian cities
A 60-year-old woman suffocated on smoke as her Shostka apartment burned. The same night, a Russian drone destroyed Izmail hospital's reception ward.
The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to Moscow
Five for five at the Belarusian-Polish border. As part of a prisoner swap, a Russian defendant was released six weeks before he was due in Kyiv.