Ukraine today claimed Russia bombed a church in the Zaporizhzhia region of the war torn country on Orthodox Easter Sunday. Photographs showed the building in ruins with just rubble and debris in its place and a scorched black hole in the ground. It comes as Putin and a huge security team joined worshippers at a service in Moscow, led by Russia’s top bishop and ally of the president. The Russian... 

FBI investigators have arrested Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old suspected of being behind the biggest US intelligence leak in nearly a decade. Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that the National Guardsman had been arrested in North Dighton, Massachusetts ‘without incident’. He said Teixeira will appear in a local court as part of the investigation into ‘alleged unauthorized... 

The government of Ukraine has announced a new policy which restricts its national teams from participating in any international events that include athletes from countries that are known to have close military ties with a certain neighboring country. The policy, which was published on the Ministry of Youth and Sport’s website on Tuesday, applies to all Ukrainian teams in Olympic, non-Olympic... 

The Kremlin has passed a new bill to strengthen its hold on Russian residents and make it easier to summon conscripts for the army with a new law, in a bid to bolster its military forces. The bill was unanimously approved by 391 Russian deputies, with no absentees or votes against it. The new law requires conscripts to show up for recruitment after being notified in person and digitally, to make a... 

Russia said Thursday it had cut off Ukrainian forces inside Bakhmut, while Kyiv insisted supply lines were still open into the besieged city, as video emerged showing incendiary munitions raining down from above. Russian troops have been battling since last summer to capture the city, which had a pre-war population of 70,000, and whose fall would now mostly present a symbolic victory for Vladimir... 

New revelations has sent shockwaves throughout the international community, harrowing videos have surfaced, purportedly showing Russian soldiers engaging in gruesome acts during the conflict in Ukraine. Allegedly perpetrated by members of the Wagner Group, these acts include beheadings of Ukrainian soldiers, with their severed heads displayed on spikes. The first disturbing video, posted on a pro-Russian... 

Vladimir Putin is receiving treatment for cancer and his top generals are looking to ‘throw’ the war in Ukraine as he does, according to a rumour contained in a leaked American intelligence document. In what appears to be the gravest leak of US secrets in years, the documents – which leaked last week and have prompted a national security investigation in the US – are understood... 

According to senior Biden administration officials, classified war documents that contained secret American and NATO plans to enhance the Ukrainian military before a planned offensive against Russia were posted on social media platforms this week. The Pentagon is currently investigating who might be behind the leak of the documents, which were posted on Twitter and Telegram, a widely accessible platform... 

Amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov has disclosed that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed a willingness to engage in negotiations to bring an end to the war. This revelation came during a meeting with İbrahim Kalın, the Presidential Spokesperson of Turkey, in Moscow. Peskov conveyed that Putin acknowledged Russia’s openness to discussions on Ukraine... 

A major meeting of top envoys from Saudi Arabia and Iran is expected to happen in Beijing on Thursday, as the next significant step in the China-brokered rapprochement and normalization of ties between the longtime enemies takes shape. As Reuters underscores, “The meeting between Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian, will be the first formal meeting... 

A prominent anti-Putin activist has raised concerns that the Russian president is laying the groundwork for unleashing nuclear warfare in Ukraine as a twisted message to the global community. The activist, Andrey Sidelnikov, conveyed that Putin has been escalating nuclear rhetoric as part of his desperate efforts to dissuade Western leaders from providing modern weaponry to Ukraine’s army. Putin’s... 

Finland terminated over 70 years of military neutrality on Tuesday by joining NATO, thereby significantly expanding the alliance’s border with Russia. The move dealt a major blow to Russian President Putin, who has been accused of escalating the risk of a significant conflict by the Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu. Shoigu, in a meeting with the country’s armed forces leaders, asserted... 

In the complex quagmire of the Ukraine conflict, Vladimir Putin finds himself ensnared in a “no-win situation,” according to James Olson, former director of counterintelligence at the CIA. The seasoned intelligence veteran believes that the war will persist unless the Russian president meets a grim fate – either being killed or ousted, rendering him a “dead man walking.”... 

The Russian woman arrested on suspicion of assassinating one of Vladimir Putin’s propagandists in a bomb attack has today admitted she carried the statue laden with explosives into a cafe in St Petersburg – but insisted she had been ‘set up’. Daria Trepova, 26, was filmed with her hands chained to a radiator while being interrogated by Russian investigators over the assassination... 

The Chinese spy balloon that few across the US in February gathered intelligence from several American military sites before it was shot down, according to two senior US officials and a former senior administration official. The sources said China could have gathered more intelligence if not for the Biden administration’s efforts to block it. The intel collected was mostly from electronic signals,...