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Ukraine launches a massive drone attack on Moscow, the largest inside Russia since the start of the war. At least three people are killed and 18 others are injured. Multiple fires are reported throughout the city and flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport are suspended.
2025-03-11

Russian president Vladimir Putin demands that NATO guarantee that it will not move its forces into Ukraine, accusing NATO and the U.S. of "trying to send Ukraine and Russia into direct armed conflict."
2021-12-24

Russia reports a record 780 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 144,492.
2021-07-13

Ukraine reports its first two cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a woman and a teenager who travelled from Russia.
2021-06-23

The United Nations Security Council approves aid deliveries to northwest Syria through one border crossing with Turkey, a day after its authorization for the six-year-long humanitarian operation ended. Russia and China abstain today on this week's fifth attempt to approve this help.
2020-07-11

A Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian airstrike reportedly kills a dozen people at a market selling diesel fuel in the rebel-held Idlib Governorate. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the death toll is likely to rise.
2016-03-7

Russian warships launch cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor. Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, reported over 600 terrorists were killed in the strikes. Video footage also emerged of Russian ground crew servicemen writing the words "For Paris" on bombs to be dropped on ISIL targets in a show of solidarity with France in the wake of the November 13 terror attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.
2015-11-20

More than 250 people have died of the cold weather in Europe, with Russia forced to reduce supplies of natural gas.
2012-02-5

The United Kingdom plans to reduce or eliminate international aid to countries such as the "powerhouses" of Russia and China, as well as South American and eastern European countries. The government plans aid increases to some poorer nations including a 40% increase to Afghanistan.
2010-07-18

A mine explosion in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo Oblast), Russia, kills at least 12 people and injures 24 others with 64 unaccounted for.
2010-05-9