The Chechen leader has made similar public statements in the past about stepping down, but has always remained in power.

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

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The terrible fate of our colleague prompted many international organisations to respond to the inhumane conditions in which thousands of Ukrainians are being held in Russia ... Chechnya, Dagestan, ...

Experts at US military information service ... the chemical were also used extensively by Russian troops in the December 1994 battle for Grozny, in Chechnya. The Agency for Toxic Substances ...

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KYIV—Ukraine said it downed two Russian jet fighters using sea drones equipped with modified U.S.-made missiles, in what military officials in Kyiv said is the first such attack in the history ...

As rumours swirled about Russia's alleged proposal to station military jets in Indonesia's Papua province, claims both countries have denied, footage surfaced in posts that falsely claimed it ...

At least 45,287 Russian occupiers were eliminated in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record for the Russian army, according to an analysis by BBC in conjunction with Mediazona. In 2024, the ...

Ukraine's military intelligence said one of its units destroyed the fighter jet on Friday with a Ukrainian Magura drone near the port of Novorossiysk — a key port city for Russia, where Ukraine ...

Russian forces are "incredibly dangerous, oftentimes fanatical or desperate people that would torture you and kill you if they caught you," said Macer Gifford, the nom de guerre of British former ...