War in Ukraine

Boris Nadezhdin, who criticized the Ukraine war and tried to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, was one of the few high-profile Putin critics still living in Russia.

Russia has used glide bombs against Ukrainian towns and cities since it invaded its neighbor more than four years ago. The Soviet-era bombs are retrofitted with guidance systems and can carry up to 6,600 pounds of explosives.

While the missile in Poland caused no injuries or damage, it could deepen tensions between the military alliance and Moscow.

Andy Burnham will be the fifth British prime minister to deal with the Ukrainian president since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

A Russian missile attack meanwhile killed six people and injured dozens of others on Friday in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Loomer had spent years minimizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amplifying Russian propaganda to her nearly 2 million followers. This week she had a change of heart.

The secretary of state, who held talks with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov, said Moscow and Kyiv should have the incentive to end a “very blood war.”