A Victory Day Parade will not be held in the Russian city of Kursk on May 9 for security reasons, said the governor of the region Roman Starovoit. According to him, the decision was made by the operational headquarters, which decided to strengthen anti-terrorist measures.

A military parade on May 9 was also canceled in the Belgorod region last week. The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced that he did not want to "provoke the enemy with a large number of equipment and military …

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the French newspaper Les Échos that now is not the time for negotiations in the Russian war against Ukraine and China also understands this.

The journalist asked Macron what after his dialogue with Xi can be expected from China regarding the war in Ukraine.

"I think China is making the same observation as we are, which is that the weather is currently military. Ukrainians are resisting, and we are helping them. It’s not the time for …

Russia began to send its elite military units, including paratroopers, into Bakhmut after the Wagner PMC suffered huge losses in the battles for the city, said the speaker of the Eastern group of Ukrainian troops Serhiy Cherevaty on Ukrainian TV.

"The fact that paratroopers appeared there does not mean an increase in the number of troops. Wagner has suffered very large losses. So, their are forced to deploy additional units of the regular army - paratroopers and motorized infantry in order to …

Ukraine "will be ready" for negotiations on the status of Crimea only when it reaches the borders with the peninsula, that is, from the moment when it regains control over the territory occupied by Russia to the north of the Crimean peninsula, said the deputy head of Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Sibiga, in an interview with the Financial Times.

"If we manage to achieve our strategic goals on the battlefield, and when we are on the administrative border with Crimea, we will be …

The authorities of the Russian Belgorod region have cancelled traditional Victory Day events.

"There will be no parade in order not to provoke the enemy with a large number of equipment and military personnel in the center of Belgorod," said the Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

Gladkov also noted that so far there is no decision whether to hold a procession of the "Immortal Regiment", celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Prokhorovka, and festive fireworks. "No one is …

The Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reports that the Russian troops have started to retreat from previously occupied positions in the Donetsk region.

According to journalists, the Russian army is withdrawing units from the "northern salient" near Avdiivka. "The southern salient near the village of Vodiane is still holding, but they can withdraw from there in the next two days. Positions at Vuhledar have been abandoned. There is now a gray zone ten kilometers deep. The Russian …

Russia handed over to the Belarusian military the Iskander-M missile systems, which can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear payloads, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu.

"The Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system has been transferred to the Belarusian Armed Forces. It can use missiles in both conventional and nuclear versions. On April 3, at one of the Russian training grounds, Belarusian crews began training to operate it to protect the Union State. The Russian …

Captain of the Russian Federal Security Service Gleb Karakulov, who worked until mid-October 2022 as an engineer in the department responsible for the Kremlin’s secure communication channels, fled abroad and condemned the war against Ukraine, reports the Center “Dossier”.

In October 2022, during Putin's official visit to Kazakhstan, Karakulov, who was in Astana as part of a group of FSO employees ensuring Putin’s security, decided to fly with his family to Turkey. To do this, the man used his …