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First Russian diesel from Putin-Trump deal heading for US, data shows

The identities of the buyer and seller were not immediately known. The cargo will be the first imported by the US since former President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil in 2022

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A drone view shows the Russian-flagged tanker Bratsk, which is under U.S. sanctions for links to the Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot, near the Baniyas oil terminal, in Baniyas, Syria, April 8, 2026.
(Illustrative) Police officers work in the vicinity of an Antonov cargo plane, near which a drone was found, at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 5, 2026, after the police said explosives experts examined a drone near a runway.

Germany's military warns of 'significant' Russian sabotage threat, raising alert level

The reassessment was triggered by the discovery in mid-September of a crashed drone carrying a tin of high explosives near Germany's Wunstorf air base in Lower Saxony.

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US citizen Stephen Hubbard with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff after being freed from Russian captivity, October 21, 2026.

Russia releases wrongfully detained US citizen Hubbard following Witkoff-Putin meeting

The Michigan native, 74, was detained in Ukraine in 2024. Russia’s judiciary alleged that he was fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine in the war, though his family denied the claims.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media while he visits together with British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband the site of an apartment building where 22 residents were killed amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine, October 8, 2026.

Kremlin rejects Zelensky's idea of a 60-day ceasefire, says it wants an overall peace deal

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that Russia wanted a long-term peace deal rather than a temporary ceasefire.

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Neo-Nazi terror group believes its leader is a Kremlin spy, the Guardian reports

The Guardian reported that some members of the white supremascist terror group the Base believed that their leader is an agent for the Russian federal intelligence services.

APRIL 26, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Kremlin says instant results not possible after Trump demands Ukraine progress

This comes after President Trump told reporters that "there’s a point at which you just have to either put up or shut up," in regards to the war in Ukraine.

APRIL 13, 2025ByREUTERS
THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Russia says it will retaliate after Moldova expels three of its diplomats

Moldova accused Russia of helping pro-Kremlin MP Alexander Nesterovschii flee before his 12-year sentence, expelling three Russian diplomats. Russia vowed retaliation.

MARCH 31, 2025ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link in Moscow, Russia, March 31, 2023.

Putin wants Trump to formally recognize all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports

Putin reportedly wants Donald Trump to recognize Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson as part of Russia.

MARCH 19, 2025ByREUTERS
Servicemen of 24th Mechanized brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a 120-mm mortar towards Russian troops at a frontline, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine March 16, 2025.

Romania arrests 'military-type' group on allegations of Russia-backed coup

Prosecutors said the group had a military-type structure, with one member being a retired major general.

MARCH 6, 2025ByREUTERS
Police walk by supporters of Romanian independent far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, in Mogosoaia, Romania, December 8, 2024

Kremlin praises Trump’s foreign policy shift, signals approval of US-Russia ties

Russia appears to back Trump’s stance on Ukraine as tensions between Kyiv and Washington grow.

MARCH 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

Russian FM says 'neo-Nazi' Zelensky rejects peace, obsessed with continuing war

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that in order for true peace to last, Kyiv would need to "denazify" and adopt Russian culture.

MARCH 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Spokeswoman of Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova attends a press conference held by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of the BRICS group of nations in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia June 11, 2024.

Bomb kills at least one person at luxury Moscow apartment building

The blast is attributed to an alleged assassination attempt of a a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025ByREUTERS
Blast at Moscow residential building

The Russian hand that built Assad also destroyed him

As rebel forces seize Damascus, the collapse of the Assad regime threatens Russia’s strategic foothold in the Middle East, signaling a profound shift in the region’s balance of power.

DECEMBER 10, 2024ByVERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city, in Syria November 30, 2024.

Kremlin to discuss Russian bases with Syria's new rulers

Asked about the future of the bases, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "It's premature to talk about it yet."

DECEMBER 9, 2024ByREUTERS
A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter takes off at the Russian military base of Hmeimim, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria, on September 26, 2019.