Viktor Bout: Russia hopeful for arms dealer prisoner swap with US
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Viktor Bout, known as the merchant of death, is serving a 25-year sentence in the US Russia is hopeful it can agree a prisoner swap…
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Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Russia has suffered a major defeat in the south of Ukraine, withdrawing from the western Kherson region . Here are the latest developments:…
Ukraine war round-up: Torture claims and MH17 convictions
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Media caption, Watch: Dashcam footage shows near-miss blast for Ukrainian driver By James FitzGeraldBBC News Ukraine has once…
Ukraine war: Wagner chief Prigozhin defends brutal killing video
Image source, Yuri Butusov/YouTubeImage caption, Yevgeny Nuzhin gave an interview to a Ukrainian journalist in September The head of private Russian military group Wagner has defended a brutal video apparently…
Ukraine round-up: Zelensky’s Kherson warning, war letters and watermelon
Image source, EPAImage caption, President Zelensky speaks to the press during a visit to the recaptured city of Kherson A "long and difficult path" remains for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky…
Ukraine war: US and Russian spy chiefs meet face-to-face in Turkey
Image source, ReutersImage caption, CIA chief William Burns met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Naryshkin in AnkaraBy Gordon Corera & Oliver SlowBBC News US and Russian spy chiefs have met…
Ukraine war: Russia ‘deliberately’ destroyed Kherson infrastructure – Zelensky
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Media caption, Watch: President Zelensky meets crowds in Kherson By James Waterhouse in Ukraine & Oliver Slow in…
Ukraine war: Zambia demands answers for death of student Lemekhani Nyirenda
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The war in Ukraine is said to have claimed tens of thousands of livesBy Kennedy GondweLusaka Zambia has demanded answers over the death of a…
What awaits Brittney Griner in Russian penal colony?
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony by a court in Russia in AugustBy BBC RussianBBC News US basketball player Brittney Griner…
Kherson euphoria highlights the folly of a premature peace with Putin
Last week’s liberation of Kherson produced some of the most iconic scenes since the beginning of the Russian invasion. The arrival of Ukrainian troops in the city sparked wild celebrations…