IOC’s stance on Russia could ‘bury Olympic movement’, Putin says | Olympics News

IOC’s stance on Russia could ‘bury Olympic movement’, Putin says | Olympics News

Putin remains tight-lipped on Russian athletes’ participation in the 2024 Olympics under the conditions imposed by the IOC. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of trying to bury the Olympic movement by imposing rules on Russian athletes for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Last…

Russian court rejects appeal to release WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich | Freedom of the Press News

Russian court rejects appeal to release WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich | Freedom of the Press News

President Vladimir Putin says he hopes for agreement with US on prisoner swap but admits ‘it’s not simple’. An American reporter jailed in Russia must stay behind bars into the new year as he awaits trial on espionage charges, a Russian court has ruled. Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow correspondent for…

S Korea scrambles jets after Chinese, Russian aircraft enter defence zone | Military News

S Korea scrambles jets after Chinese, Russian aircraft enter defence zone | Military News

Four Russian, two Chinese aircraft crossed into Korea Air Defense Identification Zone over Sea of Japan, South Korea says. South Korea’s military says it has deployed fighter jets in response to Chinese and Russian military planes flying into its air defence zone unannounced. Four Russian and two Chinese aircraft crossed…

Dozens hurt, children’s hospital damaged, in Russian missile attack on Kyiv | Russia-Ukraine war News

Dozens hurt, children’s hospital damaged, in Russian missile attack on Kyiv | Russia-Ukraine war News

Officials warn number of injured could rise after second missile attack on Ukrainian capital this week. At least 45 people have been injured and a children’s hospital as well as homes damaged after Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday morning. People were woken…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 658 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 658 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 658th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Fighting Yevgeny Balitsky, the Moscow-installed head of the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhia region, said Russian forces had “advanced significantly forward northeast of Novopokrovka”. The village lies some…

Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says | Russia-Ukraine war News

Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says | Russia-Ukraine war News

Moscow is ‘very attentively’ watching as US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in Washington. Any further United States aid to Ukraine will be a “fiasco”, the Kremlin has said ahead of a meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moscow is also…

Putin views Russia’s new nuclear submarines, says more being rolled out | Military News

Putin views Russia’s new nuclear submarines, says more being rolled out | Military News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to strengthen Russia’s naval prowess after the country inaugurated two new nuclear submarines. Putin travelled to the northern city of Severodvinsk to view the vessels, the Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk, at the Sevmash shipbuilding yard where they were built over the past six…

Allies say Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny removed from prison | Prison News

Allies say Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny removed from prison | Prison News

A spokesperson for the Russian opposition figure says that prison officials have refused to say where he was transferred. A spokesperson for Alexey Navalny has said that the Russian opposition leader has been removed from the prison where he was being held and that his whereabouts are unknown. In a…