Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine through March 2025, the Vitebsk Radio Components Plant “Monolit” supplied the Russian company Spets-Elektronkomplekt with capacitors and other parts for military equipment worth more than $40 million. The plant has been under Ukrainian sanctions since May 2023 but has yet to appear on EU or U.S. sanctions lists, according to a joint investigation by Slidstvo.Info, Radio Svaboda’s Belarus Service and the Belarusian Investigative Center.

Reporters …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will accompany President Vladimir Putin to Alaska for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Alexey Fadeev, deputy director of the Information and Press Department at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said at a press briefing.

“We believe this meeting should allow the leaders to focus on discussing all issues, from the Ukraine crisis to obstacles to the normal functioning of the bilateral dialogue, which is of critical importance for ensuring international …

Germany will finance one of the first comprehensive aid packages for Kyiv totaling up to $500 million (€427 million) under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism.

The announcement was made on Wednesday, August 13, by Germany’s Foreign Ministry.

The package covers military items either not produced by Europe’s defense industry or available more quickly from the United States than from European partners or Canada. These include, for example, critical air defense systems …

Ukraine launched a mass drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd region overnight on August 14, with an oil refinery in Volgograd among the targets. The strike triggered a spill of petroleum products and ignited fires.

The facility hit was likely the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, where explosions were heard amid the drone attack, Russian outlet Astra reported.

The overnight assault on the Volgograd region began late on August 13. Around 23:00, Russia’s aviation regulator Rosaviatsia …

Heavy fighting continues in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Several days ago, troops from the Azov unit of Ukraine’s National Guard were redeployed there, taking up a section of the defensive line on the Pokrovsk axis. The unit has reported Russian losses over the past 48 hours in this sector, where the situation remains tense and fluid.

Over the past two days, the Azov fighters say they killed 151 Russian soldiers and wounded more than 70 others. The report on Russian losses near Pokrovsk was …

Russian president Vladimir Putin is preparing to fly to Alaska for a meeting with Donald Trump and is calling allies ahead of the Aug. 15 summit. The Kremlin reported he spoke with Kim Jong Un.

According to the Kremlin, Putin thanked his counterpart for “support during the liberation of the territory of the Kursk region,” praised “the courage and heroism of DPRK fighters,” and shared with Kim “information in the context of the upcoming talks with Trump.”

The Kremlin press service noted that …

Ukraine is prepared to consider an “air ceasefire” with Russia, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said in an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera published Wednesday, August 13.

He said the United States, as one scenario, proposed to the Kremlin a full ceasefire - including a halt to missile strikes and drone attacks - but Moscow rejected the offer.

“None of these scenarios was accepted by Russia. Air strikes are a key instrument of …

Ukrainian troops have been redeployed to the Pokrovsk sector to help stop a Russian breakthrough near Dobropillya. Kyiv says there are first successes on the battlefield even as the enemy masses forces and presses the lines.

Small Russian sabotage groups infiltrated deep into Ukrainian positions near Dobropillya, the General Staff said on the StratCom AFU Telegram channel. Despite the push, Ukrainian forces have halted the advance and achieved “certain successes,” said General Staff …