Ivan Nechepurenko

2 weeks ago | estadao.com.br | Marc Santora |Ivan Nechepurenko

MOSCOU - O principal comandante militar da Rússia disse neste sábado, 26, que o Exército russo retomou a última vila que aUcrânia controlava na região de Kursk, no oeste do país, embora autoridades ucranianas neguem que sua ofensiva militar na área tenha chegado ao fim. A informação foi dada pelo general Valeri Gerasimov, que gerencia a invasão da Ucrânia e a defesa da Rússia como chefe do Estado-Maior.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ivan Nechepurenko |Marc Santora

Ukraine denied that it had been pushed out of the region and said that its military operations inside Russia were continuing. Russia's top military commander said on Saturday that Moscow's forces had retaken the last village that Ukraine was holding in the Kursk region of western Russia, though Ukrainian officials denied that their brazen campaign in the area had finally come to an end. The Russian claim was made by Gen. Valery V.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ivan Nechepurenko

A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a suburb of Moscow, investigators said. The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country's equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior figure in the Russian General Staff who was directly involved in planning operations.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ivan Nechepurenko

At the time of the Ukrainian invasion, Russian military bloggers and other commentators had wondered how Kyiv's forces could penetrate the Russian defenses so quickly. According to Ria Novosti, a Russian state news agency, Moscow had sent the regional authorities in Kursk more than $230 million to build defenses on the border with Ukraine before the attack. Mr. Smirnov was abruptly dismissed from his post as governor in December.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ivan Nechepurenko

President Trump's senior aide on Russia negotiations, Steve Witkoff, arrived in Russia on Friday, the Kremlin said, as American and Russian officials are trying to reignite talks over the war in Ukraine that have appeared stalled in recent weeks. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesman, told reporters that Mr. Witkoff had flown into Russia but refused to say whether the envoy would meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.