Petro Poroshenko, photo: Adam Warzawa / EPA-EFE The National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the former president of the country Petro Poroshenko. This was reported by Forbes Ukraine and "RBC Ukraine" with reference to sources.

Belarus freed three political prisoners, including the American Greek police accompany Alexander Vinnik to the court building. 2017. Photo: Nikos Arvanitidis / EPA The United States will release the Russian Alexander Vinnik in exchange for the American Mark Fogel released by Russia. This was announced by Trump's press secretary Caroline Livitt. According to the New York Post, Saudi Arabia participated in the exchange. Vinnik is a co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-E.

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth at the start of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 12 February 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET The new US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, has used his first appearance at a Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting in Brussels to deliver an uncompromising assessment of the war in Ukraine and to inform the other members of the NATO alliance that US global priorities had shifted away from Europe.

Russia and the United States arranged a new exchange of prisoners. Why is it beneficial to both parties and will a truce come closer in Ukraine? US President Donald Trump, along with Mark Vogel, released from the Russian prison, Washington, District of Colombia, USA, February 11, 2025. Photo: Aaron Schwartz / EPA Russia liberated and transferred the United States to the ex-employee of the American embassy in Moscow, Mark Vogel, convicted of 14 years for “drug smuggling”.

US President Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin shakes hands at a one-to-one meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, 16 July 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE / ALEXEY NIKOLSKY US President Donald Trump had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, CNN reported before the conversation was confirmed by both Trump and the Kremlin.

A monologue of a Russian doctor about work during the war How do war and repression change Russian society? We continue to talk with Russians of different professions. Maria works as a therapist in one of the hospitals of the city, which she asked not to indicate. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta Europe, she spoke about the lack of drugs and instruments, cums, low salaries and processing in state clinics, as well as how her life and work after the outbreak of war changed.

According to him, negotiations on the war will begin "immediately" Archive photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA-EFE Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a conversation by phone. This was reported on social networks of the American president. The Kremlin soon confirmed this information. Negotiations on the war in Ukraine will begin “immediately,” Trump said.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks to the press at the alliance’s headquaters in Brussels on Wednesday. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET Should Russia decide to attack NATO, the bloc’s response would be “devastating”, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday amid growing concerns in Europe about Russian sabotage, election interference and destabilising provocations.

Vladimir Putin meets the head of Rosfinmonitoring Yury Chikhanchin at the Kremlin, 9 March 2023. EPA-EFE/MIKHAEL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL Russia’s financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring added 3,165 individuals to its list of terrorists and extremists in 2024, almost twice as many as it did the previous year, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday.

The Moscow military registration and enlistment office actually confirmed the existence of a register of military accounting. About this writes the "School of the Demand". At the end of November last year, the Muscovite was fined 30 thousand rubles for failure to appear in a single call point on an electronic agenda. The man decided to appeal this decision and turned to human rights activists. His personal data is not disclosed.

Trump requires minerals from Ukraine for $ 500 billion. Novyevropa wilted whether Kyiv has such resources Open quarry of the Zavalievsky graphite mine, Kirovograd region, Ukraine, February 10, 2025. Photo: Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine should pay with its natural fossils for help provided to it.

Photo: yuri kochetkov / epa-efe The total expenses of Russia for military purposes in 2024 amounted to 13.1 trillion rubles or $ 462 billion - this is five billion dollars more than the total defense budget of the UK and all EU countries. This was reported by the newspaper Financial Times (FT) with reference to the annual study of the International Institute of Strategic Research (IISS). From the IISS report, it follows that in 2024, Russia's expenses for defense increased by 42%.

The series “Autsors” is released-about the death penalty in Russia of the 1990s. This seems to be one of the main domestic series of 2025 Frame from the series series "Aesose". Photo: Sreda Production Company So far, the Russian film distribution is “saved” with conflict film screening, streaming, on the contrary, stamps gloomy series about the nineties.

While the world is distracted by Trump’s lunacy, the Kremlin is busy weakening European democracies A campaign poster for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AFD) featuring its candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, and reading “She fights for us”, in Berlin, Germany, 17 January 2025.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov in Moscow, 11 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL The United States has agreed to release an unnamed Russian citizen from an American prison “in the coming days” following the release of US schoolteacher Marc Fogel from a Russian prison on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.