RUSSIA

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he is prepared to use Russia's tactical nuclear weapons to protect his country from aggression.

Russia reportedly carried out this week more strikes against Ukraine, which caused civilian casualties.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday for a resolution calling on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia for three months.

Reuters journalists gained access to the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Neskuchne on Tuesday, confirming that Ukraine's forces have been advancing in the early phase of a counteroffensive against Russia's invasion.

Former President Donald Trump tried to spook a Republican audience about the possibility of a Third World War if he doesn't win next year's general election.

Latvian President-elect Edgars Rinkevičs warned that Russia's neighboring countries should be on "alert day and night" in case Moscow does end up losing the war in Ukraine.

China added 60 new warheads to its growing stockpile in 2022, according to a think tank.

Talks about interfering in the 2024 election come as Trump, a favored candidate by Russians, is at risk of ending up in prison following recent indictments.

Russian Senator Valentina Matviyenko, who is also chairwoman of the Federation Council, also said the country will remain a "world power" amid sanctions from the West and Europe following its invasion of Ukraine.

A think tank warns that the world is "drifting into one of the most dangerous periods in human history" as the global nuclear weapons stockpile keeps expanding.

Russian propagandist Olga Skabeyeva made the claim after Ukraine launched its highly anticipated counteroffensive.

A U.S. military veteran living in Russia as a musician was accused of selling drugs after he was arrested in a drug raid by Russian authorities this week.

Three boats were evacuating 21 civilians, most of whom were elderly, from the left bank of Kherson Oblast.

One of the websites hacked was a Moscow-based company overseeing the interaction between the Central Bank of Russia and other legal entities.

The Taiwan-based computer manufacturer allegedly supplied computer hardware to Russia between April 8, 2022, and March 31, 2023.

A Ukrainian intelligence official said Russian President Vladimir Putin's body doubles are kept in different places.

Ukrainians abandoned inundated homes on Wednesday as floods crested across the south after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, with their presidents trading blame for the disaster.

"I live on and will tell the truth. And in that sense I consider myself innocent," said the woman, who calls herself a "peace activist" and was dubbed by German media as "Putin's fangirl."

A retired U.S. brigadier general said the West is incapable of deterring Russian President Vladimir Putin's possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Russian soldiers have blocked all possible exits out of the village of Kozachi Laheri.

One city in Kherson Oblast is now 90% flooded following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam.