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Vladimir Solovyov speaking at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 2008: A war against Ukraine would be "the most terrible crime you can think of"

Large protest in Kyiv tonight, the first signs of public dissent against Zelenskyy’s government since the full scale invasion, as demonstrators rally against the passing of a bill stripping anti-corruption bodies of their powers

Influential Russian commentator Fyodor Lukyanov on Trump's Ukraine announcement earlier today: "Trump hasn't done anything radical. In my opinion, he is trying to avoid a situation where he would be perceived as a party seeking direct confrontation with Russia."

Wonder how many more fake videos claiming to show US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites we're going to get tonight. This one, viewed over 600,000 times, shows a Russian missile strike on Kyiv a few days ago.

New update to our database of Russian losses in the war against Ukraine. 119,150 soldiers confirmed killed: - 5,381 officers - 32,169 volunteers - 17,845 prisoners Read the full report: en.zona.media/article/2025/0…

Russian state media appear keen to downplay what Trump said yesterday Channel 1 talk show host Olesya Loseva says this morning: "Trump’s important statement on Russia turned out to be much weaker than everyone assumed it would be"

On Russian state TV tonight what did the 2-hour 30 min ‘News of the Week’ programme say about Roman Starovoit: the transport minister sacked by Vladimir Putin on Monday & found dead with a gunshot wound to the head? Nothing.

Russia officially confirms the killing of Maj Gen Gudkov, the deputy commander of the Russian Navy and commander of Russian naval infantry, missile and artillery forces, in a Ukrainian strike that killed other senior officers (including at least one colonel) in their Kursk…

Sorry to all those who have shared this After watching the whole report, it’s clear to me that this soldier is in fact accusing Ukrainians of doing this, rather than admitting that Russians do it I was misled by the ambiguity of the impersonal grammatical construction he used

Last night on Russian state TV’s flagship weekly news show, a soldier nonchalantly admitted to mutilating captured Ukrainian snipers by cutting off their index fingers on both hands

My husband Siarhei is free! It’s hard to describe the joy in my heart. Thank you, 🇺🇸 @POTUS, @SPE_Kellogg, @JohnPCoale, DAS Christopher W. Smith, @StateDept & our 🇪🇺 allies, for all your efforts. We’re not done. 1150 political prisoners remain behind bars. All must be released.

Here, @Tsihanouskaya heard her husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski’s voice for the first time in 4.5 years – after 2 years and 3 months of complete incommunicado detention. "Yes, we’ll see each other soon. Listen, [things are] already better now. I’m so happy to hear your voice! I…

Asked how far his army will go in Ukraine, Putin says: "I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one people. In that sense all Ukraine is ours."

"Allies have been known to spy on one another, but the extent of China’s hacking activities against Russia suggests both a higher level of mutual distrust and a reluctance by the Kremlin to share all that it is learning on the battlefield in Ukraine."

Iran's state broadcaster, the IRIB, has been targeted by Israel. Here's the moment a presenter for the rolling news channel IRINN experiences a strike live on air.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claims that Ukraine, with UK backing, is planning a false flag attack on a US Navy ship in the Baltic Sea It sounds like SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin has been enjoying The Wargame podcast by @haynesdeborah tass.ru/politika/24232…

Last night Russian state TV predictably described The Wargame as “paranoid”

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