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A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter delivered Monday morning at the Russian diplomatic mission after a diplomatic official passed on his English-language statement to The Associated Press.

Since then, he has been very active on social media exposing Russian command/govt.

A former Russian officer who took part in the invasion of Ukraine tells CNN why he resigned his post.

Theater director Mikhail Durnenkov and actor Aleksey Yudnikov are both longstanding enemies of the Kremlin.

For decades, their performances have parodied the Russian government and its leader, President Vladimir Putin, testing the boundaries of expressive freedom under constant state surveillance.

Moscow says 265 members of the nationalist Azov Battalion and Ukrainian troops have already laid down their arms

Western leaders are all in, but their citizens have more pressing problems at home, data shows

Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'SCORPION KING: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.

Up to 11,000 troops marched on Moscow’s iconic Red Square on Monday as Russia celebrated the 77th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II. The conflict is largely called the Great Patriotic War in Russia, and May 9 is one of the country’s most revered holidays.

Kiev will ultimately decide if and when the EU embargo against Moscow will be lifted, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said

In an interview with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in Kyiv, former Gazprombank executive Igor Volobuyev explains why he felt he had to flee Russia and return to his native Ukraine. Volobuyev, a Russian citizen, said on April 28 he believes President Vladimir Putin will escalate the war in Ukraine.