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In pictures: Biggest Ukrainian drone attack yet on St. Petersburg and Leningrad region kills 1, injures 15, and sparks many fires

Ukraine launched drone strikes on St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region overnight on October 18. The attack ...
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A spy inside Russia’s army. The Wall Street Journal tells the story of the lieutenant who helped Ukraine kill hundreds of his fellow soldiers.

Lev Stupnikov came to public attention in September 2025. In an interview that month with Ukrainian YouTuber Dmytro Karpenko, ...
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How do you start over in a foreign country with $500, no job, and a cat to feed? Elmira Drau, a Russian émigré who teaches English, tells the story of her flight to Ar…

Meduza recently launched “The Emigrant Questionnaire,” a series about Russians living abroad. We plan to tell the stories ...
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Russia’s invasion left thousands of Ukrainian children stranded in Russia. For one 12-year-old girl, the only way out of her occupied village led away from her mother.

How Russia Kidnaps Ukrainian Children — And How Ukrainians Get Them Back.” Written by Russian journalist Nina Nazarova and ...
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Pope Leo XIV urges Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Ukraine, to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and civilian evacuations

Pope Leo XIV spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin and the Vatican said. During the call, the ...
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How Ukraine’s military uses Starlink — and what would happen if the Trump administration cut off its satellite communications entirely

In its dispute with Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump’s administration quickly used its strongest leverage. It did more than ...
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Trump denies ordering restrictions on Ukraine’s military Starlink service and says he doesn’t think Elon Musk did, either

Donald Trump said he had not ordered restrictions on Starshield, the military version of Starlink, in Ukraine.
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Dozens detained in immigration raid near St. Petersburg’s Sennoy Market as enlistment officers serve summonses to newly naturalized citizens

An immigration raid is underway in central St. Petersburg, where OMON riot police have cordoned off a block on Moskovsky ...
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‘What do you expect him to do?’ A diplomat explains why European leaders didn’t pressure Zelensky over his criticism of Trump

European leaders did not press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to tone down his remarks about U.S. President Donald ...
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Russian mathematician Semyon Krasotkin charged with treason over $26 in paid Telegram reactions to Ukrainian and opposition channels

Semyon Krasotkin, a 27-year-old mathematician and journalist from Moscow, has been jailed on treason charges, the news outlet ...
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U.S. lawmakers reportedly offered Ukraine Starlink coverage inside Russia in exchange for halting refinery strikes. Zelensky was receptive, WSJ says.

A group of U.S. congressmen has proposed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky halt strikes on Russian oil refineries ...
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Ukrainian drone strike sparks fire at ‘industrial facility’ in Western Siberia, governor says

Ukrainian drones struck Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Governor Ruslan Kukharuk said. The drones hit an industrial ...