All news on the topic: Russia

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Ukraine missile attack kills girl, 2, with five kids injured by Russian strike
A little girl was killed and five other children were among 22 people injured in an attack on a residential district in Dnipro in central Ukraine, the region's governor said
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Downed Russian tanks transformed into works of art by Ukrainian craftsmen
Oleskandr Demchenko launched the campaign History Art Metal, transforming fragments of combat vehicles into panels and pendants. The artworks are being sold to help pay for medicine for civilians
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'Beginning of the end for Putin' with 'break-up' of Russia coming, expert says
Vladimir Putin could be facing the beginning of his own end and further break-ups of Russia are likely once the country is defeated in Ukraine, Luke Coffey, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, said
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Explosion 'from British Storm Shadow missile' rips through Russian-occupied port
A huge plume of smoke can be seen rising from a port in Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia region in Ukraine - and it is reported to be an attack by a British Storm Shadow missile
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Vladimir Putin 'thought lazy Nato would abandon Ukraine to Russian troops'
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed the Kremlin leader believed the West would soon tire of backing President Volodymyr Zelensky's regime, but added: “Putin cannot wait us out"
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Tragic pics show gran's agony as Russian missile kills daughter and grandkid
WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: The grandmother was pictured distraught over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic in Ukraine's capital Kyiv that was damaged during today's attack
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'We work at Europe's biggest nuke plant and fear new Chernobyl under Russians'
Russia gained control of Zaporizhzhia - Ukraine's large nuclear power plant - in March 2022 and since then, engineers have become increasingly concerned a catastrophe is "waiting to happen"
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Moscow under siege by drone strikes with explosions in wealthy parts of capital
Footage shows an explosion in a Moscow suburb from a drone attack on the Russian capital with several apartment blocks hit while Kyiv was also targeted in a pre-dawn air raid
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'Russian spy' whale found with harness strapped around body is spotted in Sweden
The Beluga whale was seen "moving very quickly away from his natural environment" days after it was spotted in Norway, whose residents were told to "avoid contact" with the creature
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Ukrainian prisoners 'electrocuted and pray for death' in Russian torture jail
Alexander Tarasov, a former inmate of Russia's Simferopol Detention Centre, has opened up about life inside, and how innocent civilians are tortured
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Russian ambassador 'offended' by questions threatens to end TV interview
Moscow's man in London repeatedly clashed with BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg as she grilled him about his country's invasion of Ukraine
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Cherie Blair's charity linked to firm sanctioned for 'supporting Russia'
Dubai-based John Desmond Hanafin is accused of facilitating movement of Russian cash into the UAE via Huriya, which funds 50 mentoring scholarships for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
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'Reckoning' needed for Russia after Ukraine war, says ex-US military chief
Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said the Kremlin needed to face facts in the 21st Century, while a former NATO boss called on the West to reach out to younger Russians
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Russian soldier raped two schoolgirls the day after he returned from Ukraine war
The suspected paedophile, who was identified only by the name Sergei, told the two girls - aged 10 and 12 - that he would use a grenade to blow them up if they refused
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Putin 'totally underestimated' NATO backing for Ukraine, says alliance chief
Outgoing alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - and former Norwegian Prime Minister - is preparing to host the organisation's annual leaders' summit in Lithuania this summer
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Man who fled Ukraine has built 'robot planes' to help them in war against Russia
Gene Avakyan knows all to well what it's like to grow up in times of tension having fled Ukraine as a child and now he's created 'robot planes' to help country at war with Russia
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Boy, 11, burned alive after being 'doused in petrol' then nailed in shed
Albert Umbetyarov died after being locked in a shed that was shut before going up in flames in Dubovaya Roshcha, Moscow region. He was allegedly killed after a dispute with other kids
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Russian troops could be snared in 'mousetrap' Ukrainian city as '100,000 killed'
Kyiv sources are claiming that more than 100,000 soldiers have been killed battling for Bakhmut and that Ukraine’s soldiers will encircle them in the coming weeks
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Russia risks 'severe nuclear accident' as power is cut off to damaged plant
Vladimir Rogov, a Russia-installed local official in the Moscow-controlled part of the region, has said the Zaporizhzhia plant was "completely" disconnected from the external power supply
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Putin frees man who brutally killed wife on CCTV leaving local women terrified
Vadim Tekhov killed his ex-wife Regina Gagieva, 22, and the brutal attack was filmed on CCTV, leaving Russia shocked. But after fighting in Ukraine, the murderer has been pardoned by Vladimir Putin
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Vladimir Putin has branded the West as 'halfwits' who will fail to defeat Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a deranged speech at the Council for Interethnic Relations during which he contradicted himself and his "halfwits" joke fell flat
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Family who named son Putin in honour of Russian president regret it 10 years on
The Dzhurayev family moved to Russia from Tajikistan in the early 2010s and officially renamed their son when he was one-and-a-half years old to Rasul Putin
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Russian train blown off rails by 'sabotage' bomb blast inside occupied Ukraine
Footage showed how the carriages, believed to be carrying grain, were thrown off the track with eight carriages derailed and five overturned close to the village of Chistenkoye in Crimea which is annexed by Russia
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Putin critic falls ill with fears she's been poisoned by Russian nerve agent
Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, claims she returned to find her hotel door was mysteriously left open and the “smell of cheap perfume” before falling ill
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US says Iran is Russia's top military backer as Putin seeks more deadly drones
The White House has said Iran has provided Russia with more than 400 attack drones since August with Russia looking to buy more after using up most of the drones already purchased