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Biden Allows Ukraine to Send Missiles From US Into Russia

Policy change reflects effort to boost aid before Trump takes office

(Newser) - After months of lobbying by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Biden has authorized the use of long-range missiles provided by the US for strikes deeper into Russia. The decision reverses American policy on the Army Tactical Missile System, NBC News reports. US hesitance was partly driven by concern about a...

Biden Praises Unity Against Growing Threat

Meeting in Peru addresses military partnership between Russia, North Korea

(Newser) - President Biden on Friday praised the cooperation among South Korea, Japan, and the US at countering what he described as North Korea's "dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia." Biden spoke at the start of a meeting in Peru with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese...

Russia Hits Kyiv With First Missile Attack in Months

Damage is still being assessed after Wednesday morning strikes

(Newser) - Russia struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days on Wednesday morning and damage is still being assessed, a top official in the Ukrainian capital said. Air raid warnings blared for hours, the AP reports. Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City...

Russia Outlawing 'Child-Free Propaganda'

Putin wants women to have more children

(Newser) - Vladimir Putin wants the women of Russia to have more children, and the government took a big step toward making that wish formal on Tuesday. The nation's lower house of parliament approved a law that would ban "child-free propaganda," meaning anything that might promote the idea that...

Russia Convicts Doc Accused of Saying Soldier Deserved to Die

Doctor gets 5.5 years in penal colony, denies telling 7-year-old his dad's death in Ukraine was legit

(Newser) - More than 1,000 people in Russia have reportedly faced criminal prosecution for vocalizing their opposition to the war in Ukraine, and now an elderly pediatrician there is facing her own repercussions. Citing state news agency Tass, Reuters reports that 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova was sentenced by a Russian court on...

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Kremlin Says Trump Call to Putin 'Pure Fiction'

'There was no conversation,' and there are 'no concrete plans' for one, Kremlin spokesman claims

(Newser) - The Kremlin has firmly denied reports that President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin last week and urged the Russian leader not to escalate the war in Ukraine. "This is completely untrue, it is pure fiction," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, per the BBC . "This is...

Russia: We're All Ears on Trump's Plans for Ukraine

'Further steps to establish communication between teams were discussed'

(Newser) - Russia is open to hearing President-elect Donald Trump's proposals on ending the war, an official said, as a Russian drone killed one person and wounded 13 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and the European Union foreign policy chief held talks in Kyiv after the change in US...

Trump's Win Will Have Big Implications for Ukraine
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What Trump's Win Could Mean for Ukraine

A shift is coming; what it will be is unclear

(Newser) - In mid-October, Donald Trump made his thoughts on Russia's invasion of Ukraine clear: Volodymyr Zelensky "should never have let that war start." More fully, he said: "I think Zelensky is one of the greatest salesmen I've ever seen. Every time he comes in we give...

Russia Blamed for Polling Place Bomb Hoaxes

'They're up to mischief, it seems,' says Georgia's secretary of state

(Newser) - Voting was interrupted at multiple locations Tuesday because of bomb threats the FBI has linked to Russia. "The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains," the agency said in a statement, per the...

Ukrainian Official: We're Now Fighting North Koreans

Soldiers were recently deployed to help Russia

(Newser) - Ukrainian troops have for the first time engaged with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor, Ukraine's defense minister said Tuesday. Another Kyiv official said Ukraine's army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk border region....

US Accuses China, Russia of Shielding North Korea

Hours later, North Korea launches more missiles

(Newser) - North Korea says it's speeding up the building of its nuclear weapons arsenal to counter threats from "hostile nuclear weapons states," like the United States. "The nuclear threat of United States against [North Korea] has already reached critical point in terms of its scale and danger,...

Russia Allegedly Plotted to Put Bomb Aboard US-Bound Jet

Wall Street Journal reports two explosions at foreign DHL warehouses were part of a test run

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia has been plotting to send explosives aboard planes—possibly passenger planes—bound for the US and Canada. The Kremlin denies the allegations. The startling report stems from an investigation into two separate explosions at overseas warehouses for the global transportation company DHL.
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In Putin's Backyard, a Pro-Western President Wins 2nd Term

Maia Sandu triumphs in former Soviet republic Moldova amid allegations of Russian interference

(Newser) - Moldova's pro-Western President Maia Sandu has won a second term in a pivotal presidential runoff against a Russia-friendly opponent, in a race that was overshadowed by claims of Russian interference, voter fraud, and intimidation in the European Union candidate country. With nearly 99% of votes counted in the second...

Russia Fines Google $20 Billion Trillion Trillion

That's many times the size of the world economy

(Newser) - A Russian court that apparently has a poor grasp of numbers and/or reality has ordered Google to pay an absurdly large fine for blocking Russian channels on YouTube. The court says Google owes 2 undecillion rubles, which works out to $20 decillion, or $20 billion trillion trillion, CNN reports. The...

Ukraine: Russia Is Executing More POWs

It alleges there has been a spike in such incidents

(Newser) - Russian forces are increasingly opting to execute Ukrainian soldiers rather than holding them as POWs, Ukraine's prosecutor general office alleges. It tells the Washington Post that in violation of the Geneva Conventions, Russian troops are more often killing Ukrainian soldiers as they attempt to surrender, in some cases shooting...

In Russia, Old Guard of Scientists Fear Prison

It's 'spy mania' as the Kremlin seeks to rigorously protect hypersonic technology

(Newser) - It's a dangerous time to be a scientist in Russia, the Wall Street Journal reports. By its count, at least a dozen leading researchers have been arrested in the last six years, including six since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. One common denominator: Many of the detained scientists have...

Russia Made Fake Video of Man Destroying Trump Ballots: US

Intelligence agencies warn of more misinformation efforts before election

(Newser) - A viral video appearing to show mail-in ballots being destroyed in a Pennsylvania suburb is a Russian hoax, US intelligence officials say. The deception is part of Russia's campaign to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a senior official told USA Today . The video shows a stack of sealed...

US Isn't Sure Why North Korea Sent 3K Troops to Russia

Administration issues warning, concerned that force will fight Ukraine

(Newser) - The US said Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops have deployed to Russia and are training at several locations, calling the move very serious and warning that those forces will be "fair game" if they go into combat in Ukraine. The deployment raises the potential for the North...

In Posthumous Memoir, Navalny Shares the 'Important Thing'

Acceptance is key, late Russian dissident writes in Patriot

(Newser) - In a memoir released eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that his cause is worth suffering for while also acknowledging he wished he could have written a very different book. "I so much do not want my book to be...

Navalny's Widow Aims to Take Putin's Job

Yulia Navalnaya says she wants to see Putin become 'an ordinary prisoner in Russia'

(Newser) - Alexei Navalny's widow says she will do everything she can to make Vladimir Putin's regime fall "as soon as possible"—and when he is out of power, she plans to run for president. Yulia Navalnaya tells the BBC that when free and fair elections can be...

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