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Greenpeace warns of oil spill threat following Aframax Rio tanker fire, saying Russian authorities lie about pollution

African countries ask Ukraine to return citizens who fought for Russia and were captured

Montenegro to deport Russian pro-Kremlin war blogger and founder of Rybar propaganda project Mikhail Zvinchuk

Kazakhstan releases Ukrainian woman detained while attempting to recover grandson from Russia

New anti-jamming antenna on Russian Geran-4 drone resembles design by Chinese company Harxon, The Insider finds

Oil slick from Aframax Rio tanker fire off the coast of Sochi grows to 25 square kilometers, Greenpeace says

AfD and Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance in Saxony-Anhalt call for a halt to aid for Ukraine and an end to Russia sanctions

Latvian citizen handed six years in prison for financing Russian military with €43 donation through Belarus

MEPs linked to Russia oppose European Parliament resolution declaring Russia’s new State Duma illegitimate

Drones attack two Yandex data centers in two days, damaging major facility in Kaluga

52-year-old Russian political prisoner Igor Yakovenko dies in Krasnodar detention center after being returned for “palliative care”

Kremlin-linked Matryoshka bots accuse France’s Macron of militarism and Germany’s Merz of profiting from aid to Ukraine

Ukrainian drones hit Yandex site in first major attack on Russian data center housing two of the tech giant’s supercomputers

Russian attack on two buses in Ukrainian frontline city of Kramatorsk kills 30 and wounds at least 20

Japan extradites Russian man to Germany over role in Qilin ransomware group

Russia steps up sabotage campaign against Danish companies supplying Ukraine, intelligence service says

FSB-linked charges appear in 67% of Russia’s political cases in 2026, Memorial report finds

68-year-old Russian who swam to Lithuania in search of asylum gets six years in prison after being returned home

Russian strike on Pryluky in Ukraine’s Chernihiv Region kills at least 19, including five children, in deadliest attack of the past month

U.S. urges Americans to leave Russia amid reports of plague outbreak in Irkutsk Region, Trump says he will call Putin

Latvia moves to declare Russian journalist Leonid Ragozin persona non grata, Baltic outlet Delfi reports

Former German intelligence chief August Hanning may have passed secret documents to Azerbaijan, Der Spiegel reports

Oil tanker linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” catches fire near Sochi after weeks off tracking services

Four Russians put in solitary confinement at Georgia ICE facility after hunger strike over detention conditions

Russia drops criminal case against children’s hospice charity founder Lida Moniava

Russian-made Oxygen Forensics software was used to extract data from Hunter Biden’s laptop, RFE/RL reports

Former German intelligence head arrested on suspicion of espionage had traveled to Russia at least seven times

Russians held at U.S. immigration detention facility report mistreatment, harsh conditions, and inadequate medical care

Russian activist deported from U.S. sentenced to six years in prison

Russian authorities deny plague outbreak as media delete coverage and Central Asian countries tighten sanitary border controls

The Insider confirms Russia ties of UK businessman involved in VexPay project, promoted by A7 “shadow banking” network to evade sanctions

Two dead as Turkish-operated cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain sinks off the coast of Romania after drone attack

Russia’s oil and gas revenues fall 17% in 2026 despite doubling of Urals crude prices

Russia names eight fatalities in Tu-95MS crash in the Far East, The Insider confirms three officers linked to combat missions in Ukraine

Kazakhstan detains Ukrainian woman at Russia’s request after she traveled to Astana to bring her grandson home

Tankers and cargo ships form 60-kilometer queue in Gulf of Finland waiting to enter northern Russian ports

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