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Why Haven’t Sanctions on Russia Stopped the War? The Money Is Still Flowing.

Sanctions were imposed on Russia’s VTB Bank in February 2022, and it was kicked off the interbank payment system called SWIFT ...

How Russia’s drone attacks have reshaped the war in Ukraine: An illustrated guide

Many of the drones aren’t particularly fast or high-tech, but they are cheap enough for the Kremlin to launch more than 700 ...

Why North Korea Is Coming Clean on Its Role in the Russia-Ukraine War

North Korea is "no longer content to have its nuclear weapons and be left alone," a former senior U.S. official told Newsweek ...

Russia bombs US factory in one of war’s largest attacks

Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, ...

Despite a flurry of meetings on Russia’s war in Ukraine, major obstacles to peace remain

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

Putin war hero, the ‘Executioner,’ exposed as ringleader of $2.5M scam that had his Russian elite troops shoot him, each other to get paid

Members of an elite Russian military unit – including a distinguished Vladimir Putin war hero dubbed the “Executioner” – ...

Russian preschools are introducing patriotic and war-themed lessons to teach kids to 'love the Motherland'

A new pilot program with 100 preschools will trial the "Converations about Important Things" series that is officially ...

Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges

"We also think there's a significant probability of Russia's economy slipping into a technical recession in the coming ...