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Articles with tag "Defense Ministry"

Russia Claims Another Village in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Region

The Russian defense ministry said its troops had seized the village of Novomykolaivka near the border with the Donetsk region.

Putin Likely Lets Gerasimov Stay On as Top General After Hitting Retirement Age

Analysts said the Kremlin is probably “satisfied” with Valery Gerasimov’s performance despite the general turning 70 this week.
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Wounded Soldiers Driving Prosthetics Innovation, Senior Russian Defense Official Says

Deputy Defense Minister Anna Tsivilyova, reportedly a relative of Putin, said injured men returning from the battlefield had become a "driver" in prosthetics...
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Former Military General Jailed 9 Years for Bribery

Prosecutors accused Alexander Oglobin of taking bribes worth nearly $150,000 in exchange for steering state contracts.
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Russian Military Appoints New Commander of ‘North’ Grouping of Forces

Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov replaces Alexander Lapin, who earlier this month was reported by pro-war bloggers to have resigned due to health problems...
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Ex-Head of Russian Military Theme Park Jailed 5 Years Over Construction Fraud

Vyacheslav Akhmedov and Vladimir Shesterov were accused of falsifying construction work documents at Patriot Park between 2022 and 2024.
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Russia Hosts First Military Meeting With Sahel Juntas

The three countries are led by juntas which seized power in coups and have turned away from former colonial power France while moving closer to Russia...
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FSB Says It Foiled Ukrainian Plot to Kill Senior Russian Defense Ministry Official

The FSB claimed it arrested a dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen, born in 1989 and known by the alias “Voron,” on a highway as he traveled toward the Moscow...
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Russian Military Planes Spotted Near Alaska During Patrol Mission

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tu-95MS strategic bombers carried out a planned 15-hour patrol over international waters of the Bering Sea.
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Russian Defense Ministry Publishes Rare Footage of Tatarstan Drone Factory Employing Teens

A factory banner reads: “Kurchatov, Korolyov and Stalin live in your DNA.”
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Senior Defense Official Jailed 6 Years Over Russian Military Theme Park Fraud

Vladimir Shesterov had served as deputy head of the Defense Ministry’s Main Department for Innovative Development before his arrest last August.
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Russia Quietly Cancels Flagship Arms Expo – Reports

Held annually since 2015, the Army forum serves as the Defense Ministry’s flagship platform for presenting new weapons and technologies.
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Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A judge in Moscow also ordered the former defense official to pay a fine of $1.2 million and stripped him of his state awards.
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Prosecutors Seek 14.5-Year Prison Sentence for Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov

Timur Ivanov was arrested in April 2024, part of what would later become a wider Kremlin crackdown on corruption within the Defense Ministry.
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Russia Says Pushing Offensive Into Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Region

Ukraine has never had to fight in the central region in more than a decade of conflict with Kremlin-backed separatists and the Russian army.
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Mariupol Siege Commander Appointed as New Head of Russia’s Ground Forces

Some pro-Kremlin military bloggers have criticized what they describe as Colonel General Andrei Mordvichev’s high-casualty tactics.
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Russia to Launch ICBM Sunday as Show of Intimidation, Ukrainian Intelligence says

Ukraine’s GUR intelligence agency claimed on Telegram that Russia planned to launch an ICBM as part of a “training and combat” launch Sunday.
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Putin Claims Russia Is Recruiting Nearly Twice as Many Soldiers as Ukraine

Speaking at a Kremlin meeting on economic development, Putin claimed that up to 60,000 people “volunteer” to join the Russian Armed Forces every month...
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Jailed Ex-Deputy Defense Minister Hospitalized in Moscow

Pavel Popov, who is accused of fraud, was hospitalized with chronic health issues as doctors weigh possible surgery.
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Suspect in Death of Russian General Charged With Terrorism

The 42-year-old Russian man could face life in prison if found guilty of the charges.
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