News
- Released defenders of Mariupol report on torture and deaths of Ukrainian POWs at detention facility in Russia’s Kamyshin
- Russian government claims record gold output in 2025, expert says it may be exaggerating by 100 tons
- GRU operative Viktor Labin sentenced to five years in Belgian prison after being exposed by The Insider
- Latvia cancels concert of U.S. rapper Xzibit due to performances in Russia after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
- YouTube begins taking down videos advertising Russia’s Shahed drone-building Alabuga Polytech college, at least 61 clips disappear overnight
- Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network launches new disinfo campaign claiming France is preparing to turn Armenia into “foothold against Russia”
- Russia included on EU list of countries whose citizens will face expedited review in asylum cases
- Sales to China have not made up for Russia’s loss of European natural gas and coal markets, GreenThinkTank analysts report
- Ukraine strikes Russian “shadow fleet” tanker West Horizon in the Black Sea
- Investigative Committee calls second June 9 Moscow car blast “attempted killing of research and production worker” without naming target
- Russian general killed in blast outside Moscow identified as Damir Davydov, MoD official responsible for ammunition supplies to front
- First evidence emerges of Russia transporting fuel to Crimea using military trucks disguised as civilian vehicles
- Fuel disruptions spread from occupied Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar Region as governor blames “artificial rush”
- Disruptions from unidentified drones cost German aviation industry close to €160 million in 2025
- “Mr. Ivanishvili thinks that everybody is plotting against him,” Salomé Zourabichvili tells The Insider
