Total number of captives from the Azovstal plant has reached 1,730, the Defense Ministry said An additional 771 Ukrainian combatants have surrendered to Russian personnel at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday morning. This pushed the total number of captives from the neo-Nazi…

The former president says the country will still be viewed as financially reliable The potential move by Washington to stop Russia’s debt payments to US investors will not impact the country’s financial reputation, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday.

The inability to agree on the latest round of restrictions on Russia shows that Brussels may soon reach its limits, Euractiv reports The failure of EU member states to agree on a Russian oil embargo indicates that the bloc is reaching the limits of its ability to impose financial sanctions on Moscow, an EU diplomat…