Amy B. Zegart
The Russian government is planning to open a political education workshop for youth that will be analogous to the Soviet-era Higher Komsomol School, which indoctrinated young Communist Party members, the Russian pro-state news agency RBK reported on …
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will attend Russia’s military celebrations in Moscow on May 9, despite EU High Representative Kaja Kallas' warnings to European leaders.
“I am going to Moscow on May 9,” Fico wrote in a Facebook …
April 13 marked Russia’s deadliest attack on the northeastern city of Sumy, killing 35 people and injuring nearly 120.
As locals flocked to the city center on the morning of Palm Sunday, Russia launched two ballistic missiles in what is known as a …
Poland and the Baltic states would be the “first to suffer” in a direct conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin said on April 15.
The nations along …
After Russia launched a missile strike at the city of Sumy on Palm Sunday — killing 35 civilians, including children, and injuring over 100 others — U.S. President Donald Trump wrote off the attack as a “mistake.”
“I think it was terrible, and I …
Key developments on April 15:
As Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine drags into its fourth year — leaving behind more destruction, more death, and deeper trauma — the global conversation is shifting. The world’s leading democracies are preoccupied with their own internal crises, …
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrived in Odesa on April 15 and visited a local military hospital alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Rutte’s visit to the southern city came two days after a Russian missile strike on Sumy that killed …
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Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and metal reserves to smelt, weld, and cast the heaviest of machinery — and weaponry — for the whole of the Soviet Union.
One of these …
The Kremlin sees no “clear outlines” of an agreement with the United States on the war in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on April 15, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Peskov’s remarks follow a meeting between U.S. Special …
The majority of artillery shells used by Russian forces in Ukraine in 2024 were manufactured in North Korea, according to a joint investigation by Reuters and the Open Source Center (OPS), published on April 15.
North Korea has become a key military …
On April 13, Russia launched a brutal double-tap attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. Two ballistic missiles rocked the city center on Palm Sunday, killing at least 35 people — including two children — and shocking Ukraine and the …
Ukrainian forces struck the base of Russia’s 448th Missile Brigade, which had carried out a deadly attack on the northeastern city of Sumy on April 13, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on April 15.
The Russian missile strike, launched on Palm Sunday, …
The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug has become the first Russian region to reduce enlistment payments for soldiers fighting in Ukraine, the Moscow Times reported on April 15, citing local officials.
Throughout the three years of Russia’s …
Formed on the basis of the 12th Special Purpose Brigade “Azov,” bringing five brigades under a single command.
A joint decision with Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) on supplying long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine is increasingly possible, Johann Wadephul, deputy head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, told Tagesschau on April 15.
“The Social …
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The U.S. has told the other G7 members it would not support a joint statement condemning Russia’s deadly attack on Sumy last week so as not to disrupt peace efforts, Bloomberg reported on April 15, citing undisclosed sources.
Russia launched the …
