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The mayor of Balakliia in Kharkiv Oblast is charged with treason by Ukrainian authorities for accepting aid from Russian occupation forces. The mayor is believed to have fled to Russia with his family.
2022-04-22

Russia says that it used Kalibr cruise missiles to destroy a major oil terminal near Kyiv.
2022-03-25

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says that Belarusian troops are not willing to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine.
2022-03-24

Vietnam approves the emergency use of the American Moderna and Russian Sputnik V vaccines.
2021-02-26

A friend of poisoned exiled Russian spy Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia. Russia denies receiving such a letter.
2018-03-24

French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin and afterwards urges that European Union sanctions on Russia be lifted.
2017-03-24

Dutch-led investigators say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile that had come from Russia.
2016-09-28

The city of Grozny in the Russian republic of Chechnya holds a protest with 60% of the population in attendance in opposition to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
2015-01-19

Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, says that Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine.
2014-03-29

A senior Russian diplomat is gunned down in Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
2013-09-9