LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts. They're among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who've been pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year, according to 13 people with knowledge of the matter, including five fighters in the units. Few live to tell their...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy's first in- person appearance at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Moscow's invasion of his country when Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia objected to him taking the floor at the start of the meeting. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, serving as president of the tense session,...
SEOUL (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has returned to the capital city of Pyongyang, state media said Wednesday (Sept 20), receiving an "ardent" welcome home after wrapping up a week-long Russia tour. Kim's tour of Russia's far east included a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which has fanned Western fears that isolated, nuclear-armed Pyongyang...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was headed home after making a final stop in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok, where he visited a university, an aquarium and an animal food plant, state media KCNA reported on Monday. Kim spent two days in Vladivostok while inspecting various facilities in the fields of military,...
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was heading home by train on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported, after a week-long visit to Russia that included talks with President Vladimir Putin on closer military and other cooperation. A video published by Russia's state-run RIA news agency on Sunday showed Kim walking along a red carpet...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is close to approving the shipment of longer-range missiles packed with cluster bombs to Ukraine, giving Kyiv the ability to cause significant damage deeper within Russian-occupied territory, according to four U.S. officials. After seeing the success of cluster munitions delivered in 155 mm artillery rounds in recent months, the U.S. is...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not encourage or enable attacks inside Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said after Russian authorities said they downed drones that tried to attack Moscow early on Wednesday. It is up to Ukraine to decide how it chooses to defend itself from the Russian invasion that began in February...
The head of Russia's investigative committee said Moscow had charged 92 members of Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity and proposed an international tribunal backed by countries including Bolivia, Iran and Syria. The government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta on Monday (July 25) quoted committee head Alexander Bastrykin as accusing "more than 220 persons, including representatives of the...
Grand Duke George, the Head of the Russian Imperial House Grand Duchess Maria's son, will marry his Italian fiancee on Oct 1, 2021 as the country's first royal wedding since the Russian Revolution of 1917 will take place in the city of St Petersburg.Reuters MOSCOW - Russia's former imperial capital is set to play host to...
