Russian articles

  • Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks

    Investigation finds hacker group linked to Russian intelligence responsible for attacks targeting politicians and defence sectorGermany has summoned a top Russian envoy over a series of cyber-attacks targeting members of the governing Social Democrats and its defence and technology sector.The 2023 attacks, in which several websites were knocked offline in apparent response to Berlin’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine, have been blamed on a hacker group linked to Russian military intelligence....
  • Russians sent to Niger airbase occupied by US troops

    The Russians are said to be sharing a wing of Niger's main airport, but not mingling with US troops.
  • Ukrainian athletes told to avoid Russians at Olympics in Paris

    Contact with ‘representatives of the aggressor states’ discouragedRecommendations serve to avoid possible ‘provocations’Ukraine’s athletes have been urged by their Olympic chiefs not to have any contact with their Russian and Belarusian counterparts at the Paris Games in July and August.Ukraine had threatened to boycott the Games after the International Olympic Committee decided Russians and Belarusians who do not openly support the invasion of Ukraine and have no army connections can compete as...