How will the Moscow concert hall attack affect Putin? | Vladimir Putin

How will the Moscow concert hall attack affect Putin? | Vladimir Putin

On Friday, armed men stormed the Crocus Concert Hall outside Moscow, killing at least 137 people and injuring more than 100. A day later, President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation, promising to “identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists who perpetrated this atrocity”. Some observers may see this…

Russia steps up bombardment of Ukraine’s capital | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia steps up bombardment of Ukraine’s capital | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia launched missiles against Kyiv for the third time in five days, part of an apparent escalation of the aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities as the war stretches into its third year with the front line largely stationary. Five people were injured in the strike on the Ukrainian capital, with…

Ukraine says it hit two Russian landing ships off occupied Crimea | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine says it hit two Russian landing ships off occupied Crimea | Russia-Ukraine war News

The Ukrainian military has said it hit two large Russian landing ships in overnight attacks on the occupied Crimean peninsula as well as other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea. “The defence forces of Ukraine successfully hit the Azov and Yamal large landing ships, a communications…

Putin says Moscow concert attackers tried to flee to Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war

Putin says Moscow concert attackers tried to flee to Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war

NewsFeed Russia has detained the four gunmen and other suspects connected to the attack at a Moscow concert hall which killed more than 130 people on Friday. President Vladimir Putin is linking it to Ukraine, despite an ISIL affiliate in Afghanistan claiming responsibility. Published On 24 Mar 202424 Mar 2024…

Who’s to blame for the Moscow massacre? ISIL, Ukraine or Russia itself? | Vladimir Putin News

Who’s to blame for the Moscow massacre? ISIL, Ukraine or Russia itself? | Vladimir Putin News

Aleksandra Chanysheva is convinced that lax security is what made the Friday night attack on a concert hall just northwest of Moscow possible. “Guards are the most ridiculed and underpaid people in Russia,” the 51-year-old teacher of Russian language and literature at a public school told Al Jazeera. “And they…

‘Imagine if just one dam is hit’: Russian-Ukrainian energy war heats up | Russia-Ukraine war News

‘Imagine if just one dam is hit’: Russian-Ukrainian energy war heats up | Russia-Ukraine war News

Olena Rozumovska is at the end of her rope. Her two-bedroom apartment in an Soviet-era concrete building has no electricity or water supply, and the central heating is off after Russian drones and missiles struck Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Friday. “It’s unbearable, impossible. I want to howl with…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 758 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 758 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here is the situation on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Fighting At least five people were killed and more than one million were left without power after Russia launched a wave of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine, targeting the country’s energy infrastructure. Eight of the Russian missiles hit Dnipro Hydroelectric…

Russia is in a ‘state of war’ in Ukraine, Kremlin says for the first time | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia is in a ‘state of war’ in Ukraine, Kremlin says for the first time | Russia-Ukraine war News

The Kremlin has for two years referred to its invasion of Ukraine as a ‘special military operation’, not a war. More than two years after invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has said that Russia regards itself to be at “war” due to the West’s intervention and support of its neighbour. So…

Deadly Russian attack rocks Odesa; Ukraine vows to defeat ‘lunatic’ Putin | Russia-Ukraine war News

Deadly Russian attack rocks Odesa; Ukraine vows to defeat ‘lunatic’ Putin | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian forces’ creeping momentum has continued for a fifth week after the fall of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine as the Russian command moved reservists from other parts of the front to press its advantage. The villages of Tonenke and Nevelske, west of Avdiivka, fell to the Russian advance by Saturday….