The Pigeon Express
Russian authorities have promised to fix the mistakes in their troop call-up for Ukraine, after some public outrage over students, older or sick people being mistakenly ordered to report for duty. When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation last week, he said only people with “relevant” skills or military experience would be concerned. […]
At least 16 people died and another three were hospitalised after a truck collided with a stationary minibus in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region. “According to preliminary data, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle did not slow down in good time and hit a stationary minibus,” Ulyanovsk’s interior ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Roadworks […]
The daughter of a close ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee said. It is thought her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as “Putin’s brain”, may have been the […]
A $75 million Russian superyacht will go under the hammer after its owner was sanctioned. The Axioma was seized in Gibraltar in March after US bank JP Morgan claimed owner Dmitrievich Pumpyansky did not pay a $20 million loan. The 72.5 meter vessel is being auctioned on Tuesday and, because it is listed for one […]
Ukraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region. It says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka is now impassable. It comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine is waging a counter-offensive towards […]
The war in Ukraine began with Crimea and must end with its liberation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Ukraine’s president was speaking after a string of explosions hit a Russian airbase there, killing one person. Mr Zelensky did not mention Tuesday’s blasts but said: “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give it up.” Russia’s […]
One person has died after blasts at a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration has said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula’s western coast. Footage circulating on social media appeared to show multiple explosions. […]
A high-resolution Iranian-owned satellite has been launched into space from a base in Kazakhstan on board a Russian rocket, amid speculation about its uses. The remote-sensing Khayyam satellite, which Iran has said it wants to use for non-military purposes, was successfully launched on Tuesday, according to footage aired live by Iranian state television. Earlier this […]
Ukraine’s nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak. Enerhoatom said a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line had been damaged at the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest in southern Ukraine. Ukraine also accuses Russian forces of firing rockets at civilian […]
Russia has accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war. Moscow said on Tuesday it was responding to comments by Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence, about the way Kyiv used US-supplied long-range HIMARS rocket launch systems based on what he called excellent satellite imagery and real-time information. Skibitsky told […]
The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, […]
A third of Russians believe that the Sun orbits the Earth, according to a survey on scientific misconceptions published on Tuesday. The number of Russians that did not believe the Earth revolves around the Sun, 35%, had grown from the 28% that believe such in 2007, VCIOM, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public […]