Guy Faulconbridge
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North Korea's Kim inspects Russian fighter jet plant under Western sanctions
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday inspected a Russian fighter jet factory that is under Western sanctions, part of a visit Washington and its allies fear could strengthen Russia's military in Ukraine and bolster Pyongyang's missile program. → Read More
Russia's top general Gerasimov shown in a video for first time since failed June 24 mutiny
Russia's most senior general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was shown ordering subordinates to destroy Ukrainian missile sites in a video released on Monday, his first appearance in public since a failed June 24 mercenary mutiny. → Read More
New hazards of war enclose Belarusian town with turbulent past
A Belarusian town with a turbulent past may hold some haunting new secrets: an empty camp that mutinous Russian mercenaries have yet to use and perhaps even a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons Russia says it has deployed in Belarus. → Read More
Belarus leader Lukashenko says Prigozhin back in Russia, Wagner deployment unclear
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end an armed mutiny in Russia, said on Thursday that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was no longer in Belarus. → Read More
Russia says Ukraine attacked Moscow with at least five drones
Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Moscow with at least five drones that were all either shot down or jammed, though one of the capital's main airports had to reroute flights for several hours. → Read More
CIA's Burns: armed mutiny shows damage Putin has done to Russia
U.S. CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. → Read More
As Russia teetered, the elite trembled, and some private jets left
As one of the world's most brutal mercenary forces marched on Moscow, some among Russia's elite trembled in fear that the world's biggest nuclear power was teetering on the brink of what President Vladimir Putin said could have been a civil war. → Read More
Lukashenko says Putin wanted to 'wipe out' Prigozhin during mutiny attempt
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to "wipe out" mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that pushed Russia towards civil war. → Read More
Putin's former 'puppet master' urges an end to mercenary groups like Wagner
President Vladimir Putin's former chief strategist on Monday urged an end to mercenary groups in Russia after a mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner militia, cautioning that they interfered with the chain of command. → Read More
Russia's Medvedev says Moscow now has free hand to destroy enemies' undersea communications cables
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies' undersea communication cables given what he said was Western complicity in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts. → Read More
Putin ponders a question: Should Russia try to take Kyiv again?
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve in the war in Ukraine, adding that he faced a question only he could answer - should Russia try to take Kyiv again? → Read More
In Russia, the talk is of 'war'
For more than 15 months Russia has been fighting a war in Ukraine that the Kremlin refused to call a war - but that is changing: President Vladimir Putin is using the word "war" more often. → Read More
Kakhovka dam: what happened and what do we not know?
A huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone. → Read More
Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, killed hundreds
It was unclear whether the reported attack represented the formal start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive to recapture some of the territory taken by Russian forces after the invasion. → Read More
Kremlin bans Western journalists from Russia's 'Davos'
The Kremlin said on Saturday that journalists from "unfriendly countries" would not be allowed into the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which President Vladimir Putin has used to showcase the Russian economy to global investors. → Read More
Prigozhin says Kremlin factions are destroying the Russian state
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday that Kremlin factions were destroying the state by trying to sow discord between him and Chechen fighters. → Read More
Can I have a kangaroo? Navalny taunts Russian prison with bizarre requests
Alexei Navalny, Russia's most famous opposition leader, on Friday shared letters showing how he has poked fun at prison authorities for several months with a host of bizarre requests for a kimono, a balalaika, a beetle and even to keep a kangaroo. → Read More
Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. → Read More
Russia says it repels border incursion, Kyiv hit kills three
Russia said on Thursday it had repelled more cross-border attacks from Ukraine while its relentless aerial assaults on Kyiv killed another three people including a nine-year-old girl and her mother locked out of an air raid shelter. → Read More
Prigozhin asks prosecutors to probe 'crime' by top Russian defence officials
Russia's most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that he had asked prosecutors to investigate whether senior Russian defence officials had committed any "crime" before or during the war in Ukraine. → Read More