Russia’s security service said Wednesday it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine’s security service. Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces …
A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. Workers load a body of Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces into a bus after he and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov …
Ponomarev, once a liberal parliamentarian, has likened himself to Charles de Gaulle. Exiled in Ukraine since 2016, Ponomarev is the political head of the Freedom of Russia Legion, a volunteer militia thought to include about 1,600 Russian dissidents and defectors using pinprick tactics to aggravate Russian troops with the aim of one day marching on Moscow. “Average Russians don’t know …
Ilya Yashin was charged after casting doubt over the Kremlin’s narrative on atrocities that took place in Bucha, Ukraine. Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for “spreading fake information” about the Russian army. Yashin is also an ally of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, and was close …
The prominent opposition politician and activist has been charged for allegedly spreading false information about the army. Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Ilya Yashin, a critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine and one of the last opposition figures remaining in the country, for allegedly spreading false information about the army, his lawyer said. Yashin has been a …
