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Russia has yet to eject Ukrainian forces from Kursk despite bringing in more than 10,000 troops from its ally North Korea, according to Ukrainian, South Korean and U.S. assessments. Russia has ...
Assad has fled to Moscow, Iran has withdrawn from Syria and abandoned its mercenaries, and Russia’s remaining soldiers are isolated in the Assadist strongholds of Latakia and Tartus — where ...
Still, not all of Russia’s arguments are unreasonable. “There are some concerns on the Russian side that are legitimate,” Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told me.
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
On 9 March Russia attacked Ukraine with an estimated 81 missiles. [118] The Ukrainian military said 34 missiles were shot down, a lower than usual rate due to Russia shifting to new technologies. [119] Russia claimed it carried out a "massive retaliatory strike" as payback after an alleged raid in the Bryansk Oblast of Russia.
Russia is believed to be behind dozens of hybrid attacks on NATO going back years. These incidents — part of a so-called shadow war — have escalated since the invasion of Ukraine. NATO is now ...
In March 2023, Russia announced that people from unfriendly countries will be subject to a "voluntary" exit tax of up to 10 percent to be paid into the Russian federal budget, on the sale of shares in Russian companies. [24] This was expanded in July 2023 so that companies leaving Russia must sell their assets to Russian buyers at a 50% discount.
The Ukrainians, backed by more than $55 billion in Pentagon aid since Russia’s invasion in Feb. 2022, did not inform the White House or Pentagon in advance of their incursion, a U.S. official said.