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Plane with Russian servicemen returning from captivity lands in Moscow Region

185 Russian servicemen were returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime

Russia, Ukraine carry out 185-for-185 prisoner exchange — Russian Defense Ministry

The returned Russian servicemen are currently in Belarus

Russia Returns 185 Soldiers From Kiev-Controlled Territory - Defense Ministry

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has returned 185 military personnel from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, and 185 prisoners of war of the armed forces of Ukraine have been transferred in return, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Has the Tide Turned Against Russia in the Ukraine War?

While Ukraine has gained some ground and intensified strikes on Russia's rear areas, experts caution that Kyiv is far from a strategic turning point.

Russian oil flows through Druzhba return to normal as Hungary and Slovakia resume Russian oil and gas imports

Russian crude oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline returned to normal levels in May, marking the first full month of uninterrupted supplies since transit resumed in April after a dispute.

Former Polish envoy returns award to Ukraine in protest

Former Polish Ambassador to Kiev Bartosz Cichocki has returned a Ukrainian state award in protest Read Full Article at RT.com

Vucic says Serbia will not abolish visa-free travel with Russia

According to the Serbian President, even if someone makes such a decision, it will be immediately overturned

Over 160 Displaced Kursk Residents Returned From Ukraine, New Human Rights Official Says

Yana Lantratova said her office was verifying the exact number of Kursk residents still held in Ukraine, with plans to meet her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets “in the near future.”

US military secretly guiding ships through Strait of Hormuz – NYT

The US military has covertly guided 70 cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz, most with their transponders turned off, a report says Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia has spent more than a year and hundreds of lives fighting to capture one small village in Ukraine. So why can’t it take Mala Tokmachka?

A video compilation of statements by pro-Kremlin pundit Boris Rozhin about the Russian military’s endless assault on the village of Mala Tokmachka in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region surfaced in mid-April and quickly became the most popular military meme so far in 2026. The village’s name had already appeared regularly in dispatches from Russian milbloggers as “nearly cleared” — week after week, month after month. As the meme evolved, it took on a range of meanings, becoming a commentary on the lies of Russian military officials and their blogger allies, and a symbol of the senselessness of a war in which hundreds of lives have been spent fighting over a single small village. The name has also been used as shorthand for the gap between the Russian military’s ambitions and its capabilities (“We’ll take Tokmachka — then we march on Europe”). Ukrainian media outlets and bloggers, meanwhile, have turned Mala Tokmachka into a symbol of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ resilience. By their count, the battle has lasted more than 1,500 days, ostensibly longer than any successful defense in world history. Meduza examines how Mala Tokmachka became so significant to both Moscow and Kyiv.

Friends of the dead dispute Ukraine’s claim that a strike on a college in occupied Luhansk targeted a Russian drone unit’s headquarters

On the night of May 21–22, Ukrainian drones struck targets in the annexed Luhansk region, hitting the Starobilsk Pedagogical College and the Vocational College of Luhansk Pedagogical University. The two colleges share a dormitory building; because the vocational college has no basement of its own, students from both schools shelter in the pedagogical college’s basement during air raid warnings. According to Russian officials, about 80 students were in a shared dormitory at the time of the attack, having returned to their rooms after an earlier alert. Twenty-one people were killed; many more were wounded. Bereg, a cooperative of independent journalists, spoke with classmates and friends of the dead.

‘Child migrants’ arriving in UK revealed to be adults – Sun

Many migrants slated to be placed in foster care in Kent, the UK, turned out to be adults, The Sun reported Read Full Article at RT.com

Once considered a possible successor to Patriarch Kirill, Metropolitan Hilarion fell from grace amid sexual misconduct allegations. Now he’s embroiled in a drug scandal in the Czech Republic.

Metropolitan Hilarion, a Russian Orthodox Church priest based in the Czech Republic, spent two days in police custody. On May 24, his car was stopped on the basis of an anonymous tip and the trunk was searched. Officers found “four small containers with a white substance” that turned out to be an illicit drug. Hilarion insisted he had no idea how the substance ended up in his car. On May 26, he was released without charges. But the incident was unprecedented for the Russian Orthodox Church, whose representatives had never before been taken into custody in Europe on drug-related charges. Meduza explains who Hilarion is and what is known about his detention, which may be a transparent signal that the metropolitan is no longer welcome in the Czech Republic.

False EU membership promises turned Ukraine into war testing ground — FSB chief

European patrons have established and continue to support a puppet regime in Ukraine, Alexander Bortnikov said

Ukraine is Now Europe's Gunrunning & Weapons Smuggling Epicenter, FSB Reveals

Seduced by the false promise of imminent EU membership, Ukraine has turned the country into a staging ground for military and sabotage-terrorist ops against Russia, said Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov.

West Turned Deaf Ear to Ukraine's Attack on College in Starobelsk - Lavrov

The West ignored Ukraine's drone attack carried out by the Kiev regime's armed forces on the night of May 22 against the academic building and college dormitory of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk (LPR), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Kyiv Says Russia Returned 528 Bodies to Ukraine