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Ukrainian authorities on August 29 said that Russia has handed over the bodies of 84 Ukrainian soldiers killed in action.

A Moscow court rejected a bid for the pretrial release of Igor Girkin, the former leader of Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine and the latest one-time Kremlin favorite finding himself in peril after criticizing President Vladimir Putin’s sputtering war effort in Ukraine.

The meeting of an Israeli envoy with the leader of an extreme right-wing party in Romania has provoked fierce criticism.

Among the passengers listed aboard the Wagner jet that crashed in Russia on August 23 was longtime mercenary commander and former military intelligence officer Dmitry Utkin. Here’s a look at Utkin and how his death, if confirmed, could affect the notorious company.

Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered as a Russian Orthodox priest blessed a massive monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the town of Velikiye Luki. Former police officer and historian Andrei Ivanov, whose own relatives were repressed under Stalin, was one of the few to object.

Village by village, Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive is grinding forward -- but the pace is slow, and Russia is already counterattacking in some places. Worries are growing in the West about whether Kyiv can pull off a repeat of last year’s sweeping battlefield successes.

The number of high-profile Russians who have died under unusual circumstances over the years has led the world to speculate that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been involved in at least some of them. The Russian president has turned multiple allies into enemies, including Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was reportedly killed on Wednesday as a passenger on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow.

Belarusian opposition politician Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk was at home in the western city of Brest in January 2021 when ...

Understaffed and undersupplied sappers have not yet cleared 1 percent of the beleaguered Kharkiv region’s estimated 12,400 square kilometers of mined territory. And as Russia increases its barrage on the region, more mines could be coming.