"But, for today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts. There is nothing on this place, so — just ground and — and a lot of dead Russians," he said. Zelenskyy's press secretary later walked back those previous comments. Ukrainian defense and military officials said that fierce fighting was o...
The so-called nuclear briefcase, or "Cheget" (named after Mount Cheget in the Caucasus Mountains), is with the president at all times. The Russian defence minister, currently Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of the general staff, currently Valery Gerasimov, are also thought to have such...
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said last week that Russia’s strikes reportedly hit “300 targets of different kinds” and helped Syrian special forces recover the black box of the Russian warplane downed by Turkey last month. “We used Calibre cruise missiles from the (Kilo-class) Rostov-on-Do...
Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s ex-Defense Minister and current national Security Council secretary, is meeting with senior Iranian military and security officials, as well as newly sworn-in president Masoud Pezeshkian. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency described the focus ...
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is overseeing probe into the incident, was more forthcoming in a visit to Severomorsk, according to RIA-Novosti. He indicated that there were some survivors, and that 10 of the dead were captains. “Fourteen crew members were killed, the rest were saved...