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Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs more air defense missiles as Russia keeps up attacks
CBS News Videos16 hours agoIn an exclusive interview, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CBS News' Charlie D'Agata that Ukraine needs more air defense missiles and artillery shells to combat Russia's continued invasion.
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- 02:32Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs more air defense missiles as Russia keeps up attacksCBS News VideosIn an exclusive interview, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CBS News' Charlie D'Agata that Ukraine needs more air defense missiles and artillery shells to combat Russia's continued invasion.16 hours ago
- 00:47Ukraine foreign minister Kuleba visits IndiaReuters VideosSTORY: Kuleba, who was seen paying his respect at the memorial of the iconic Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi, had written on social media platform X that he was "building on the dialogue" between the two nations. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held separate phone calls last week with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of Kuleba's visit. Ukraine hopes to hold a summit of world leaders without Russian participation in the coming months to advance its blueprint for peace, a "formula" that calls among other things for the withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory.1 day ago
- 02:15Zelenskyy on Ukraine's ability to win war against RussiaCBS News VideosIn an interview with CBS News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence that Ukraine can win the war against Russia if the country gets enough supplies and weaponry. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more on his interview with Zelenskyy.1 day ago
- 01:00Russian airstrikes hit residential buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine killing one and wounding 16 others.Associated Press VideosRussia struck the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine with aerial bombs on Wednesday, Mar. 27 for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said. The airstrikes caused widespread damage, hitting several residential buildings and damaging the city’s institute for emergency surgery.2 days ago
- 00:53Young football players and residents in Kyiv react after Ukraine qualifies for Euro 2024Associated Press VideosSoccer fans in Kyiv on Wednesday reacted after their national team qualified for the upcoming Euro 2024 tournament. (Mar 27)2 days ago
- 01:05Russia blames the West and Ukraine for involvement in concert hall attackAssociated Press VideosRussian officials are persisting in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group.2 days ago
- 01:32Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel RussiaAssociated Press VideosUkraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory. One emerging bright spot is its small but fast-growing defense industry, which the government is flooding with money in hopes that a surge of homemade weapons and ammunition can help turn the tide. (AP video shot by Alex Babenko and Vasilisa Stepanenko)3 days ago
- 04:02Putin blames Ukraine for deadly Moscow attackCBS News VideosOfficials in Kyiv are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of falsely linking Ukraine to the deadly concert hall attack in Moscow to stoke fervor for Russia's war there. Andrew Borene, executive director at Flashpoint National Security Solutions, joins CBS News with more on what's known about the attack.4 days ago
- 01:07Russia launches major airstrike on UkraineReuters VideosSTORY: Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv after a wave of Russian missile strikes against Ukraine on Sunday. Residents made their way into subway stations to seek shelter. Kyiv said the airstrikes struck critical infrastructure in western Ukraine and that air defenses destroyed about a dozen missiles over the capital. One Russian cruise missile briefly flew about a mile into Polish airspace and stayed there for 39 seconds, according to Poland’s defense minister. Russia has been pounding Ukraine for days in attacks portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks carried out during Russia’s presidential election. Sunday's strikes come after Russia on Friday launched its largest aerial bombardment of Ukraine’s energy system in more than two years of full-scale war. Ukraine’s state-run energy firm Naftogaz said an underground gas storage site had been hit in the attacks on power facilities. On Sunday, Ukraine ramped up imports of electricity and halted exports. Naftogaz said delivery to customers had been unaffected.5 days ago
- 00:22Putin suggests Ukraine was linked to deadly attack on Moscow-area concert hallAssociated Press VideosPutin suggests Ukraine was linked to deadly attack on Moscow-area concert hall6 days ago
- 00:28Russian missile hits Ukraine's largest damReuters VideosSTORY: "Only the hydroelectric power station itself was hit eight times," Yuriy Bielousov, head of the war department of the General Prosecutor's office, told national TV. Russia on Friday staged its largest air strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure of the war, hitting a vast dam, killing at least five people and leaving more than a million others without electricity, Kyiv said. Ukraine, which has long urged allies to supply more air defenses, said its energy system had received emergency power supplies from neighboring Poland, Romania and Slovakia, as seven of its regions faced blackouts. Moscow says attacks on Ukraine's power infrastructure are legitimate strikes aimed at weakening the enemy's military.6 days ago
- 02:16Nuclear power plant affected by overnight Russian attack, Ukraine saysCBS News VideosUkrainian officials say Russia launched over a hundred missiles and drones in a vast overnight attack that included strikes on a hydroelectric station that supplies power to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest nuclear power station. Sarah Rainsford with the BBC is following the latest from Kyiv.1 week ago
- 01:02Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure in Large-Scale AttackWSJUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said delays in U.S. aid had left Kyiv low on air-defense missiles to counter Russian attacks. His comments came after Russian strikes across the country. Photo: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images1 week ago
- 02:18Russian strikes plunge millions in Ukraine into darknessReuters VideosSTORY: An overnight Russian bombardment on Friday (March 22) designed to keep Ukraine in darkness. Over 150 missiles and drones were fired by Russia in the largest attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure of the war to date leaving 1.2 million without electricity, Kyiv says. The country's largest dam in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia engulfed in flames - though the state hydropower company said there was no risk of a breach. Homes were also hit in the area with Zaporizhzhia's local governor telling Ukrainian television there were a number of casualties. This local resident and her child managed to escape. “There were a lot of explosions after the first one. There was so much flying above, one couldn’t realize. I had only one goal – to ensure that my child is alive. I rescued him from the rubble.” The Ukrainian air force said the attacks were concentrated in the regions of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. Russia's defence ministry said the strikes were part of a series of revenge attacks aimed at punishing Kyiv for its earlier incursions into Russian territory and that they had taken control of the village of Myrne in Zaporizhzhia. The strikes were a return to former tactics - Moscow regularly bombed the power grid in the first winter of the invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been urging the West to supply more air defenses, condemned the attack and said there was work under way to repair power supply in nine regions. National operator UkrEnergo said the grid was receiving urgent assistance from Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Over 700,000 of those without power are in the eastern Kharkiv region as generators keep the city running and queues formed for water and fuel. The local supermarket's network unscathed by the attack allowing residents to stock up. The International Atomic Energy Agency said earlier Zaporizhzhia's nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, had lost connection to its main off-site power line, but has since been repaired. Ukraine's largest private energy company DTEK said some of its thermal power plants had been hit as well.1 week ago
- 02:03Russia launches massive air attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructureABC News VideosThe strikes were the biggest on Ukraine’s power grid since the start of the war.1 week ago
- 03:31Ukraine’s energy infrastructure hit by massive attack: OfficialsABC News VideosMillions of Ukrainians are without power after the largest attack on the nation's energy infrastructure since the start of the war.1 week ago
- 00:54Aftermath of Russian attacks that hit Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in UkraineAssociated Press VideosRussian attacks destroyed residential areas in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson on Friday, and widespread outages were reported after electrical stations were hit. (Mar. 22)1 week ago
- 01:04Russia launches largest missile attack in months on UkraineABC News VideosABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports on the latest developments after attacks on energy plants across Ukraine.1 week ago
- 01:39As Ukraine aid languishes, some House members work on end run to approve fundsCBS News VideosThe House is trying to step around its own rules to force a vote on Ukraine aid and break through gridlock on the issue. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane says it's a symptom of a Congress that's been functioning in a kind of alternate reality, outside of regular order, and he explains why.1 week ago
- 01:11Defense Secretary Austin says Putin "will not stop at Ukraine"CBS News VideosDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Russian President Vladimir Putin "will not stop at Ukraine" as he called on European allies to continue their support in the war.1 week ago
- 02:00US assures allies it 'will not let Ukraine fail'Reuters VideosSTORY: "...we will not walk away." U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Germany on Tuesday to convince European allies that the United States was committed to continued support for Ukraine. "Ukraine won’t back down and neither will the United States." But experts say Austin faced a skeptical audience at a meeting known as the Ukraine defense contact group, as the U.S. Congress continues to delay critical aid for Ukraine. "The United States will not let Ukraine fail." Austin did not say how the U.S. would support Ukraine without additional funding and did not specifically mention Congress. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has so far refused to call a vote on a bill that would provide $60 billion more for Ukraine. "Ukraine’s survival is on the line." In the meantime, the White House has been scrambling to find ways to send assistance to Ukraine, as officials say the lack of funding available is already having an impact on the battlefield and Ukrainian forces are having to manage scarce resources. "Let’s not kid ourselves: Putin will not stop at Ukraine. But as President Biden has said, Ukraine can stop Putin if we stand with Ukraine and provide the weapons that it needs to defend itself." Last week the Biden administration said it would send $300 million in military assistance to Ukraine, but said it was an extraordinary move after unexpected savings from military contracts the Pentagon had made. Officials have not ruled out that they could find additional savings, but they say that amount would not be enough to make up for the lack of Congressional action. U.S. officials say the reality is that without the United States, European support for Ukraine will not be enough to fend off Russian forces. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Russia is preparing a new offensive against Ukraine starting in late May or summer.1 week ago
- 01:01Ukraine's survival in danger, Pentagon chief warnsReuters VideosSTORY: Austin is leading the monthly meeting known as the Ukraine defence contact group (UDCG), held at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, of about 50 allies that have been militarily supporting Ukraine. "Ukraine's survival is in danger," Austin said in a press conference after the meeting. "And they don't have a day to waste. And we don't have a day to spare either," he added. Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has so far refused to call a vote on a bill that would provide $60 billion more for Ukraine and the White House has been scrambling to find ways to send assistance to Kyiv, which has been battling Russian forces for more than two years. Austin, who is traveling for the first time this year since prostate cancer treatment, did not say how Washington would support Ukraine without additional funding. Officials say the lack of funding available is already having an impact on the ground in Ukraine and Ukrainian forces are having to manage scarce resources.1 week ago
- 00:51'Putin won’t stop at Ukraine': US Defense Sec. AustinReuters VideosSTORY: “Ukraine’s survival is on the line and all of our security is on the line,” Austin said in opening remarks to reporters before they were asked to leave the room. Austin said Ukraine would not back down “and neither will the United States.” “Our message today is clear: the United States will not let Ukraine fail. This coalition will not let Ukraine fail and the free world will not let Ukraine fail,” said Austin.1 week ago
- 02:02Ukraine strikes Russia on day two of presidential voteReuters VideosSTORY: A Ukrainian missile struck the Russian border city of Belgorod on Saturday. This video released by Russian media outlet Ostorozhno Novosti shows plumes of smoke coming out from an apartment building. A separate drone strike also set an oil refinery on fire in Russia's Samara region. These Ukrainian attacks came on the second day of a Russian presidential election. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Kyiv of trying to disrupt. Russia's Defense Ministry said it had repelled attempts by Ukrainian forces to cross the border into Belgorod region, where attacks from Ukraine have become part of daily life. The governor there said schools and shopping centers would close for safety. Ukraine has staged repeated strikes this week on Russian soil, particularly targeting oil refineries. Russia mounted its deadliest attack in weeks on Friday when its missiles hit a residential area in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa, killing scores of people. The Kremlin is hoping for a high election turnout to demonstrate that the country is united behind Putin. The election is all but certain to hand him six more years in the Kremlin. Putin's leading critics are in prison or have fled abroad, prompting the opposition to call the vote a sham. But overall turnout rose above 50% by the afternoon of day two. Some of the highest rates - approaching 70% - were reported in the Belgorod region and in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine where Kyiv says voting is illegal and void. Russia's governing party, United Russia, said on Saturday that it was facing a widespread denial of service attack - a form of cyberattack aimed at paralyzing web traffic - and had suspended non-essential services to repel it.2 weeks ago
- 01:07Over 50 UN states slam Russia's polls in occupied UkraineReuters VideosSTORY: In a show of unity, 56 U.N. ambassadors stood by Ukraine's ambassador to the U.N., Sergiy Kyslytsya, while he reiterated a U.N. General Assembly resolution that the attempted illegal annexation of regions of Ukraine has no validity under international law. "The participation in the illegal attempts to organize so-called presidential elections to a foreign country in the territory of Ukraine is illegal, and whoever facilitates the organization of the elections is liable under Ukrainian criminal law," Kyslytsya said.2 weeks ago
Some prominent Russians are calling for the execution of those responsible for the massacre at a concert hall near Moscow, and an end to Russia’s 28-year moratorium on capital punishment. By ...
Feb 5, 2023 · 5:41 p.m. ET, February 5, 2023. We've wrapped up our live coverage for the day. You can read more about Russia's invasion of Ukraine here. 4:38 p.m. ET, February 5, 2023. Ukraine's defense...
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Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
Russia is a land of superlatives. By far the world’s largest country, it covers nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and the eastern third of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms, from deserts to semiarid steppes to deep forests and Arctic tundra. Russia contains Europe’s longest river, the Volga, and its largest lake, Ladoga. Russia also is home to the world’s deepest lake, Baikal, and the country recorded the world’s lowest temperature outside the North and South poles.
The inhabitants of Russia are quite diverse. Most are ethnic Russians, but there also are more than 120 other ethnic groups present, speaking many languages and following disparate religious and cultural traditions. Most of the Russian population is concentrated in the European portion of the country, especially in the fertile region surrounding Moscow, the capital. Moscow and St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) are the two most important cultural and financial centres in Russia and are among the most picturesque cities in the world. Russians are also populous in Asia, however; beginning in the 17th century, and particularly pronounced throughout much of the 20th century, a steady flow of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people moved eastward into Siberia, where cities such as Vladivostok and Irkutsk now flourish.
Russia’s climate is extreme, with forbidding winters that have several times famously saved the country from foreign invaders. Although the climate adds a layer of difficulty to daily life, the land is a generous source of crops and materials, including vast reserves of oil, gas, and precious metals. That richness of resources has not translated into an easy life for most of the country’s people, however; indeed, much of Russia’s history has been a grim tale of the very wealthy and powerful few ruling over a great mass of their poor and powerless compatriots. Serfdom endured well into the modern era; the years of Soviet communist rule (1917–91), especially the long dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, saw subjugation of a different and more exacting sort.
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Russia is bounded to the north and east by the Arctic and Pacific oceans, and it has small frontages in the northwest on the Baltic Sea at St. Petersburg and at the detached Russian oblast (region) of Kaliningrad (a part of what was once East Prussia annexed in 1945), which also abuts Poland and Lithuania. To the south Russia borders North Korea, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. To the southwest and west it borders Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as Finland and Norway.
Extending nearly halfway around the Northern Hemisphere and covering much of eastern and northeastern Europe and all of northern Asia, Russia has a maximum east-west extent of some 5,600 miles (9,000 km) and a north-south width of 1,500 to 2,500 miles (2,500 to 4,000 km). There is an enormous variety of landforms and landscapes, which occur mainly in a series of broad latitudinal belts. Arctic deserts lie in the extreme north, giving way southward to the tundra and then to the forest zones, which cover about half of the country and give it much of its character. South of the forest zone lie the wooded steppe and the steppe, beyond which are small sections of semidesert along the northern shore of the Caspian Sea. Much of Russia lies at latitudes where the winter cold is intense and where evaporation can barely keep pace with the accumulation of moisture, engendering abundant rivers, lakes, and swamps. Permafrost covers some 4 million square miles (10 million square km)—an area seven times larger than the drainage basin of the Volga River, Europe’s longest river—making settlement and road building difficult in vast areas. In the European areas of Russia, the permafrost occurs in the tundra and the forest-tundra zone. In western Siberia permafrost occurs along the Yenisey River, and it covers almost all areas east of the river, except for south Kamchatka province, Sakhalin Island, and Primorsky Kray (the Maritime Region).
On the basis of geologic structure and relief, Russia can be divided into two main parts—western and eastern—roughly along the line of the Yenisey River. In the western section, which occupies some two-fifths of Russia’s total area, lowland plains predominate over vast areas broken only by low hills and plateaus. In the eastern section the bulk of ...
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Background. From early Mongol invasions to tsarist regimes to ages of enlightenment and industrialization to revolutions and wars, Russia is known not just for its political rises of world power and upheaval, but for its cultural contributions (think ballet, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, caviar and vodka). It spans 11 time zones across two continents ...
20 hrs ago. After Moscow attack, migrants from Central Asia hit by backlash. Migrants in Russia reported an uptick in xenophobia after Moscow said Tajiks were behind last week's attacks. Europe....