Moscow

“Our opponents expected that we would retreat or surrender,” Putin declared. "This will not happen, as we often say in such cases."

"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable," Biden told a Washington crowd in April 2022. "We will keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for Putin and further increase Russia's economic isolation."

Wagner is fully financed by the Russian government, according to President Putin.

U.S. intelligence agencies had alerted top military and administration officials as early as Wednesday about a potential military assault against prominent Russian defense authorities, plotted by Prigozhin.

Israeli commander "very worried that some of these capabilities are going to fall to Hezbollah and Hamas' hands."

Russia provides about a third of the U.S.'s supply of enriched uranium.

Zakharova outlined the possibility of Russia reinstating the New START treaty, given the right conditions.

Three months prior to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the CIA was privy to detailed intelligence suggesting a Ukrainian plot to attack the key infrastructure.

About 200 monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) residing in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery have been given three days to leave.

CIA Director Bill Burns secretly visited Beijing to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, indicating growing concerns within the Biden administration about the deteriorating relations with China, and marking the highest-level trip by a Biden official to China.