An organized crime group is recruiting homeless Russians to enlist in the military, then stealing their benefits.

The leaders of a pro-Russia group in France behind a poster campaign declaring “Russia is not my enemy” have been taken into custody and are being held on suspicion of intelligence-gathering for a foreign power.

Kenya, Nepal, Tajikistan. They say they were deceived by Russia into joining a war they did not want to fight.

People walk along the Red Square as sunlight reflects off the Kremlin Clock on the Spasskaya Tower in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 7, 2025. I have been spending time in Russia every year since the invasion of Ukraine and witnessed a stark societal transformation.

Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs across Ukraine early Sunday, killing five people in a major nighttime attack that Ukrainian officials said targeted civilian infrastructure. Moscow fired 53 ballistic and cruise missiles and 496 ...

Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv killed at least two people and wounded 15 Saturday, officials said, as renewed U.S.-led peace negotiations gathered momentum.

Russia’s latest overnight missile-and-drone barrage slammed into Kyiv, killing one and injuring 11 in the Vyshhorod district as fires tore through residential buildings. The strike—Kyiv’s second major attack in as many days—followed an earlier assault that left half the city without power.