Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a meeting with security and defense officials about the Kursk and Belgorod border regions, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow on Monday. Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 386 square miles of neighboring Russia’s Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of …
Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, left, walks out of his lawyer’s office in Las Vegas after being released from federal custody Tuesday. Wright suggested that defense attorneys wanted him free “likely to facilitate his absconding from the United States.” Smirnov’s defense team, headed by veteran Las Vegas attorney David Z. Chesnoff, filed an emergency petition last week with the U.S. …