Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition politician and Putin nemesis, reported dead at 47
London, UK Reuters Alexei Navalny, reported to have died on Friday by Russia’s prison service, was the fiercest domestic opponent of Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of trying to kill him and of having him jailed on bogus charges and deprived of medical care. He was 47. The Kremlin dismissed the allegations and cast Navalny […]
Moscow accuses Wagner head of mutiny, he says his forces enter Russia
Moscow, Russia/Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go “all the way” against Moscow’s military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny. As a long-running standoff between Prigozhin and the military top brass appeared to […]
Russia marks Victory Day with new strikes on Ukraine, but pared-back parade
Updated: 8:30am, 10th May, 2023 (AEST)Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia fired cruise missiles at Kyiv on Tuesday and paraded troops across Moscow’s Red Square for its annual celebration of victory in World War II, pared back amid shortages of manpower and arms at the front after a failed winter campaign in Ukraine. In a fiery 10-minute […]
Moscow says US behind Kremlin drone attack, air raid sirens sound in Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens sounded again in Kyiv as darkness fell following attacks the previous night. Reuters witnesses heard gunfire and repeated heavier explosions near the centre of Kyiv. […]
Updated: Russia says Ukraine tried to kill Putin with drone attack on Kremlin
Updated: 7:50am, 4th May (AEST)Moscow, Russia/Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in Moscow, and threatened to retaliate. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv had nothing to do with the reported overnight incident. “We don’t attack Putin, or […]
Patriarch says Russians who don’t serve country are “internal enemies”
Reuters The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church on Tuesday branded Russians who fail to serve their country as “internal enemies” and described patriotism as the “greatest virtue”, the RIA state news agency reported. Patriarch Kirill is a close ally of President Vladimir Putin and has strongly backed the war in Ukraine, in which tens […]
Defiant Putin proclaims Ukrainian annexation as military setback looms
Updated: 8:20am, 1st October, 2022 (AEST)London, UKReuters A defiant Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of a swathe of Ukraine in a pomp-filled Kremlin ceremony, promising Moscow would triumph in its “special military operation” even as he faced a potentially serious new military reversal. The proclamation of Russian rule over 15 per cent of Ukraine – […]
Kremlin critic Navalny will survive “poison attack” says ally
Moscow, Russia/Frankfurt, GermanyReuters Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who fell gravely ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was a poisoning, will survive, the founder of the activist group that sent the air ambulance to fly him to Germany, told a newspaper. “Navalny will survive poison attack, but be incapacitated for months as a politician,” […]
ORTHODOX CHURCH: RISKING A SPLIT OVER INDEPENDENCE FOR UKRAINE’S CHURCH
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports from Paris on the divisions in the Orthodox Church…