Bulgaria's pro-Russian former president Rumen Radev set for landslide election win, exit polls showBulgaria's election shows a strong win for former President Rumen Radev. Exit polls indicate a significant victory for his party. This outc...
20 Apr, 2026, 08.11 AM IST
Bulgarians head to polls to elect parliament for eighth time in 5 yearsBulgarians are voting for the eighth time in five years. They hope to elect a stable parliament to end political deadlock. Nationwide prote...
19 Apr, 2026, 01.41 PM IST
Zelensky ousts Ukraine top intel chief amid security shake-upUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has replaced the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Vasyl Maliuk stepped down as SBU chief. He...
06 Jan, 2026, 12.45 AM IST
Russian court jails former general who criticised top brass for 5 years on fraud chargesFormer Russian commander Ivan Popov, who criticized Moscow's military leadership in Ukraine, has been sentenced to five years in prison. A ...
24 Apr, 2025, 03.42 PM IST
Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening?Following the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister last month, a series of detentions of senior military officials on corruption cha...
24 May, 2024, 01.15 PM IST
Deputy Russian military chief of staff jailed for bribery in latest arrest of senior defense officialA deputy chief of the Russian military general staff, Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin, has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery, according...
23 May, 2024, 03.56 PM IST
Russia detains deputy of defence minister Shoigu for corruptionRussian security services detained Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov on suspicion of accepting major bribes, marking the highest-profile...
24 Apr, 2024, 12.36 PM IST
Ukraine fires 6 deputy defence ministers as heavy fighting continues in the eastSix Ukrainian deputy defense ministers have been fired in the aftermath of the dismissal of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in a corrupti...
18 Sep, 2023, 05.26 PM IST
Ukraine's defence minister Oleksii Reznikov resigns in wartime shakeupPresident Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was sacking Reznikov and proposed Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar and ex-lawmaker who runs t...
04 Sep, 2023, 07.55 PM IST
Russia and Ukraine trade aerial attacks as Zelenskyy makes another move against corruptionRussia has fired missiles at western Ukraine, killing an eight-year-old boy, according to local officials. There have also been reports of ...
11 Aug, 2023, 07.38 PM IST
Ukraine detains senior ex-military for suspected graft chargesYevgen Borisov was in charge of mobilisation and conscription in the southern Odesa region until his dismissal in late June. Investigators ...
24 Jul, 2023, 09.59 PM IST
President Putin is deeply mistaken, we are patriots: Wagner group head Yevgeny PrigozhinYevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, rebuked Russian President Vladimir Putin's claims that the group had comm...
26 Jun, 2023, 12.44 PM IST
Russian defence minister visits troops after Wagner mutinyRussian defence minister Sergei Shoigu visited Russian troops involved in the military operation in Ukraine. It was his first public appear...
26 Jun, 2023, 11.02 AM IST
What's happening in Russia? Here's what we knowRussian tycoon, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who owns the private security firm "Wagner", is accused by Russian generals of trying to conduct a coup ...
24 Jun, 2023, 09.02 PM IST
Putin's defence minister should consider suicide, says Russian-installed officialAfter more than seven months of war in Ukraine, Russia's most basic war aims are still not achieved while Russian forces have suffered a se...
06 Oct, 2022, 10.24 PM IST
New US sanctions target more in Putin's power structureA judge and an investigator in Russia's prosecution of two outspoken critics of alleged corruption and rights abuses are also a focus of th...
16 Mar, 2022, 12.46 PM IST
Five things to know about why Russia might invade Ukraine - and why the US is involvedUkraine's layered history offers a window into the complex nation it is today - and why it is continuously under threat. As an Eastern Euro...
25 Jan, 2022, 09.57 AM IST