A day after the publication of an investigation by two cybersecurity watchdogs showing that a cellphone belonging to the chief executive of an exiled, independent Russian news website had been infected by Pegasus surveillance spyware, several other journalists and media workers for Russian news outlets were reported to have, like her, received earlier notifications from …
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An investigation by the South African government has concluded that weapons were not loaded onto a Russian vessel under American sanctions that docked near Cape Town last year, contradicting accusations by U.S. officials that South Africa had provided arms for the war in Ukraine, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday. “The panel found no evidence …
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Russian forces attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube River with drones early Wednesday, damaging granaries and warehouses that are used to export grain, according to Ukrainian officials and the Defense Ministry of neighboring Romania. The ministry condemned the attacks, on the ports of Reni and Izmail — Ukraine’s two main ports on the Danube, which …
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Russian forces fired more than two dozen missiles across Ukraine early Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said, in assaults that hit two cities near the country’s western edge far from the front lines and killed at least three people. Ukraine’s Air Force said that 28 cruise missiles, 16 of which were intercepted, had been fired around 4 …
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A Russian court on Friday handed Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, a new 19-year prison sentence on charges of supporting “extremism,” Russian state news media reported, a ruling that came amid intensified suppression of dissent in Russia. Mr. Navalny, whose anticorruption investigations criticizing the Kremlin drew popular support and infuriated Russia’s top leadership, …
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