The Wagner Group’s leaders said in a brief statement that Yevgeny Prigozhin and his deputy Dmitry Utkin were on board the Embraer RA-02795 that crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region. Their bodies were identified shortly afterward. The plane took off from Seremetyevo at 5:54 Moscow time and was headed for Pulkovo, but it disappeared from radar 26 minutes after take-off. The Federal Aviation Agency... 

Leaked blueprints have revealed a bunker hidden deep underneath Vladimir Putin’s £1 billion mansion overlooking the Black Sea. Gelendzhik Palace has its own church, casino, fully-equipped gym, ice hockey rink and ‘entertainment room’ – complete with stripper poles. The sprawling 190,000-square-foot complex is sealed off from the rest of Russia by 17,000 acres of woodland guarded by the FSB... 

Russian FSB agents and armed soldiers have prowled a Ukrainian orphanage to abduct children and send then to Moscow, chilling CCTV footage shows. Ukrainian intelligence claims a staggering 13,000 orphans as young as toddlers have been kidnapped and shipped to Russia where they are indoctrinated with pro-Kremlin propaganda, while teenagers are trained to be soldiers. Volodymyr Sahaidak is the director... 

The toll of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has reportedly reached a staggering 90,000 “irrecoverable losses,” dealing a severe blow to Vladimir Putin’s ambitions. The information, disclosed by a source within Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and a former state security officer, was initially reported by Russian media project iStories and later relayed by... 

Vladimir Putin faced a significant setback as a drone attack targeted a military airfield in Russia, reportedly destroying two TU-22M3 long-range bombers at the Shaykovka air base in the Kaluga region. Situated about 200km from the Ukrainian border, the air base houses Russia’s 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment, known for deploying TU-22M3 bombers equipped with Kh-22 missiles, extensively... 

Japan on Tuesday demanded Russia apologise for detaining a diplomat over alleged espionage, denying the charge and accusing Moscow of blindfolding and pinning the man down in ‘unbelievable acts’. Motoki Tatsunori, a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok, was deemed ‘persona non grata over illegal intelligence activities’, top government spokesman Hirokazu... 

This is insane. Some people there in Russia are so zealous Putinists that they would demonize their own children for opposing the war…. The daughter of a strongly pro-Putin senator in Russia has fled abroad fearing persecution and jail after he branded her a ‘traitor’ for opposing the war in Ukraine. Diana Isakova, 25, posted flyers against the conflict which led to her arrest and... 

Russia has lost more than 900 elite specialists since the invasion of Ukraine in February, according to reports. Publicly available data shows 337 marines, 245 National Guard’s special forces and riot police troops, 151 military intelligence soldiers and 144 elite paratroopers have been killed, the BBC’s Russian service reported. The Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Guards Service... 

The Russian army of demonic thieves are trying to steal Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant. Through this theft, they are risking a nuclear disaster meltdown just like Chernobyl. This is an emergency, Russia needs to be stopped urgently or these vile orcs could poison Europe once again with radioactivity. The president of Kyiv’s nuclear energy business has warned that Russia is preparing... 

Rogue security agents from Russia’s feared FSB spy agency are feared to be behind the car bombing attack which killed the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s Rasputin-esque ‘guru’ advisor, amid mounting suspicions the Russian president’s inner circle is turning on him. There are growing fears in Moscow that the attack on Putin loyalist Alexander Dugin’s daughter, Darya... 

A leading Russian hypersonic missile expert has been detained on suspicion of high treason. Professor Alexander Shiplyuk, 55, was held in a swoop by the FSB counter-intelligence agency in Novosibirsk, Siberia where he heads the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. The respected academic is the latest to be held in a wave of arrests of leading researchers on suspicion of handing secrets... 

Several people, including two in Russia, have been arrested for allegedly plotting an armed insurrection against the Belarusian president. He claims that the US may have sanctioned the assassination attempt. Earlier this week, several Belarusian opposition figures were arrested in their home country and in neighboring Russia. The two nations made it clear that those arrested are all suspected of plotting... 

Eighteen months after he was arrested in a Moscow hotel room and accusing of spying, a Russian court has handed down a 16 year jail term to Paul Whelan, a national of four western countries: Canada, Ireland, the US and the UK. The 50-year-old defendant described the trial, partly held behind closed doors, as a “sham” and protested his innocence throughout the process. After Monday morning’s... 

After a little bit of digging, it turns out that it’s Russia’s fault for the immigration crisis in Greece now and yes this time we mean it, we’re not being sarcastic like in the case of Trump being a Russian agent, hacker, whatever. No this is real! Let us explore the never-discussed Russian role in the Muslim migrant crisis of the European Union. Well for starters, you need to know... 

A festive December evening turned deadly as a man opened fire in the very heart of Moscow, killing one and injuring five others, as he targeted FSB headquarters, just across the street from a children’s department store. We do not know much about the shooter yet but considering that the media is covering his identity and calling him “a man”, “shooter” and “gunman”,...