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On August 6, authorities in Kyiv renamed the Soviet-era, 102-meter “Motherland Monument” to the “Mother Ukraine Monument” and replaced the USSR’s hammer-and-sickle symbol on its shield with the trident, Ukraine’s coat of arms. The move came after some 663,000 Ukrainians voted in favor of replacing …

At the end of a two-day Africa summit in St. Petersburg on July 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed accusations that his government has been abducting children from Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, speaks during a plenary session at the Russia Africa Summit in St. …

During a July 20 briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said: “[U.S.] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley opened up during a Pentagon news conference saying that Western curators had carefully planned the counter-offensive operation by the Ukrainian Armed …

On July 23, a barrage of Russian missile and drone strikes on the Ukrainian city of Odesa killed at least one person and wounded 22 others. Dozens of buildings, including the Transfiguration Cathedral, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were damaged in the attack. It was the latest in a series …

During a July 24 videoconference with permanent members of the Russian Security Council, President Vladimir Putin claimed that public opinion in Europe is changing, and that Europeans tend to believe that supporting Ukraine is a waste of money and not in European interests: “We can see the public …

While chairing a meeting in Moscow on July 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the banning of Russian state media outlets in some Western countries following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During an exchange with Kristel Nean, the editor-in-chief of the pro-Kremlin website Donbass …

Early on July 17, drones hit the Crimean Bridge [also known as the Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge], which links Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, damaging the bridge and killing two people. The following day, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said the explosions …

The Belarusian opposition in exile has accused President Alexander Lukashenko of approving the forcible transfer of 2,100 Ukrainian children from at least 15 Russian-occupied Ukrainian cities. Pavel Latushka, an exiled Belarus former culture minister who now heads National Anti-Crisis Management, a …

On July 11, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda’s proposal to establish permanent military NATO bases near the Russian border, claiming that Russia never moved its military infrastructure westward: “It seems that the Europeans do not understand this …