Russia

Russia fired a barrage of missiles early Sunday on Kyiv for the first time in more than a month, shattering a sense of normalcy in the Ukrainian capital.

Some Russian troops are refusing to return to fight in Ukraine because of their experiences on the front line at the start of the invasion, according to Russian human rights lawyers and activists.

Putin’s growing authoritarianism undermines the modernisation he once sought for the armed forces

It's worth examining this problem and seeing how it's affected the Russian armed forces. 1st 🧵 in a series.

Unlike most of what passes for "liberal Russian media" in the West, this one isn't based in Moscow

This is the fourth month of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. The fighting, which began across the country’s northern, eastern and southern territory, is now almost entirely concentrated in the Donbass.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, May 28, asked Russia’s Vladimir Putin to hold “direct serious negotiations” with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Moscow “is ready to make a significant contribution to overcoming the food crisis through the export of grain and fertilizer on the condition that politically motivated restrictions imposed by the West are lifted,” according to a Kremlin readout of the call.

Igor Girkin Strelkov, a former Russian military leader, said Russia's attack on Ukraine has "completely failed," according to a social media post from Nataliya Vasilyeva, a Russian correspondent for The Telegraph.

LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday discussed ways to help ease the international food crisis, with the Kremlin saying this could be done only if the West lifts sanctions.