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The Ryazan Refinery in Ryazan, Russia, suspends operations after an overnight drone attack by Ukraine destroys the main crude distillation unit at the facility. Locals report hearing at least five explosions during the attack.
2025-02-24

Three people are killed in a fire at a paper warehouse in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
2023-05-30

An Ilyushin Il-76 military cargo plane carrying nine people crashes near Ryazan, Russia, killing five passengers.
2022-06-24

The European Union suspends some of its military activities in Mali due to the alleged involvement of Russian private military companies in the conflict, especially during the Siege of Moura in March.
2022-04-12

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warns that the United States will impose sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine.
2022-02-19

Human Rights Watch calls the attack a war crime and says both Russia and Syria may bear criminal responsibility.
2018-04-9

The Syrian Army, backed by Russian airstrikes, retakes control of the strategic town of Salma in the northern Latakia Governorate. The town had been mostly under rebel (FSA) and jihadist (Al-Nusra Front) control since 2012.
2016-01-12

Russia's Gazprom halts gas supplies to Ukraine until the Ukrainian government pays in advance for future supplies to replenish the current supplies of gas that it has used up; Ukraine says it has stopped buying from Gazprom because it can get cheaper gas from Europe. Roughly 15% of the gas used in Europe travels through Ukraine, and a previous cut-off of gas supplies in 2009 caused serious disruptions in shipments to EU countries at the height of winter.
2015-11-25

A column of at least 23 Russian armoured vehicles and military trucks crosses the border from Russia into Ukraine, in the first confirmed sighting of such an incident by Western journalists.
2014-08-15

2011 Libyan civil war: The President of the United States Barack Obama expresses support for Russia acting as a mediator in the uprising.
2011-07-13