Russian authorities grounded a Moscow-bound flight to arrest a North Korean diplomat’s wife and son who went missing from the far eastern city of Vladivostok last month, residents in Russia familiar with the case told Radio Free Asia.
Russian authorities have issued a missing persons alert for the family of a North Korean diplomat, in what local and international media reports said could be an attempted defection.
It is now difficult for people outside of Russia to know what Russians think about the conflict due to the Russian media crackdown that followed its invasion of Ukraine. Some Russian tourists Genia Dulot met in Egypt described how their lives have changed.
Bangladesh will use the Chinese yuan to repay a U.S. $318 million loan owed to the state-owned Russian firm Rosatom so construction can continue on a nuclear power plant in the country, a company official said.
According to Ukrainian officials, around 16,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia or territories in Ukraine that are under Russian control. Only 324, including Olena Dudnik’s son Andriy, had been returned as of March 24.
Most of the front lines in the Ukrainian war are different, despite the fact that the world has seen images of house-to-house combat in Bakhmut. The tiresome process of waiting for orders or an enemy attack wears soldiers out as they dig themselves into trenches or hide under the cover of trees.
One of the first places that Russian soldiers took control of after invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022, was the village of Khotin in the Sumy region. The villagers recall watching Russian troops and tanks enter the village on their way to Kiev.
The country’s economy is beginning to feel the effects of a year of international sanctions against Russia and the beginning of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, though the impact has not been as fast and effective as Western powers had hoped.
One year after Russia began its full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainians and their supporters marched in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday. Almost a million Ukrainian refugees live in Poland.
When the White House announced its new policy in September, Russians who fear persecution because they oppose Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continue to apply for asylum here. Many are coming through Mexico.