Polina Nikolskaya

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Mari Saito |Anna Koper |Anton Zverev |Filipp Lebedev |Polina Nikolskaya

WARSAW, June 12 - The Canadian teenager was getting anxious. It was May 2024, and he was in Copenhagen, running out of money after leaving Moscow a week earlier. He’d booked the cheapest room he could find in the Danish capital, but the hostel was still more expensive than he’d expected. The teen, Laken Pavan, opened Telegram to type out a message to his handler in Russia’s Federal Security Service , which runs the country’s spy operations and is known by its acronym FSB.

1 month ago | infobae.com | Maria Tsvetkova |Polina Nikolskaya

Rusia está llevando a cabo una importante expansión de su fábrica en la remota Siberia para aumentar la producción de un poderoso explosivo utilizado en proyectiles de artillería y otras municiones en la guerra en Ucrania, según una revisión de Reuters de documentos estatales e imágenes satelitales disponibles públicamente.

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Maria Tsvetkova |Polina Nikolskaya |Anton Zverev |Ryan McNeill

By Maria Tsvetkova, Polina Nikolskaya, Anton Zverev and Ryan McNeill, Reuters Increasing volume of explosives available for filling munitions critical for Russian war effort, analysts say Documents show new production line being built in Siberia, out of range of most Ukrainian attack drones Satellite images show major construction at the site Project has faced setbacks, including planning and construction delays.

1 month ago | reuters.com | Maria Tsvetkova |Polina Nikolskaya |Anton Zverev |Ryan McNeill

NEW YORK/LONDON - Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive used in artillery shells and other munitions in the war in Ukraine, a Reuters review of publicly available state documents and satellite imagery has found. Moscow’s ability to muster more shells than Ukraine has played an important part in Russia’s battlefield successes during the conflict, which has mostly been fought with big guns and drones.

Mar 4, 2025 | businesslive.co.za | James Pearson |Polina Nikolskaya |Anton Zverev |Parisa Hafezi

Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. An S-300 missile system in Tehran, Iran, April 17 2024. Picture: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA/REUTERS London — Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as the Islamic Republic has deepened its defence co-operation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates.