Belarus and Russia's show of firepower appears to be a message to Europe

The Zapad-2025 military drills come just days after Poland accused Moscow of violating its air space with a drone incursion.

Russia warns Europe: we will go after any state which takes our assets

Russia on Monday warned it would go after any European state that sought to take its assets after reports that the European Union is looking for new ways to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.

Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.

Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.

Russia test fires hypersonic missile on NATO's Arctic doorstep

Crew members aboard the Admiral Golovko, a frigate with the Northern Fleet, fired a Zircon missile at a sea target in the Barents Sea, Russia's government said on Sunday. The Admiral Golovko has been known to carry Zircon missiles for several years.

Russia revives barter trade to dodge Western sanctions

Old-fashioned barter is on the rise in Russia's foreign trade for the first time since the 1990s, as companies seeking to outfox Western sanctions swap wheat for Chinese cars and flax seeds for building materials.

7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Russia’s Far East

The quake briefly triggered tsunami alerts at nearby coastlines, less than two months after a larger earthquake sent tsunami waves across the Pacific.
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,300

A Ukrainian drone attack killed two women in the village of Golovchino in Russia’s Belgorod region, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports. A man who was seriously injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Belgorod region in April has died in hospital, TASS reports.

Russia flexes military muscle with hypersonic missiles and bombers during drills

Moscow and Minsk have said the exercises are exclusively defensive and that they do not intend to attack any NATO member.
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