The Moscow Times
Kadyrov Says He Wants to Step Down as Chechen Leader
- Title
- Kadyrov Says He Wants to Step Down as Chechen Leader
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he is once again asking to be relieved of his post, fueling speculation over the future of his nearly two-decade rule over the Muslim-majority North Caucasus region.
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- Russian Airports Impose Flight Restrictions as Ukraine Launches Major Drone Barrage
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Airports across Russia introduced temporary air traffic restrictions on Tuesday as Ukraine launched more than 100 drones at the country overnight, including several targeting Moscow just days before the city is scheduled to hold its annual Victory Day parade.
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- Russian Man Stages Rare Anti-Putin Protest in Moscow Before Jumping Off Bridge
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A man in central Moscow staged a rare protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin before jumping from a bridge into the Moscow River, the independent news outlet SOTAvision reported Tuesday.
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- Moscow Apartment Explosion Kills At Least 3
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Three people were killed after an explosion ripped through an apartment building in Moscow and sparked a fire, state media reported early Monday, citing police sources.
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- Putin says the successor is always on his mind
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Putin says the successor is always on his mind. He suggested that there could be a contest between several candidates.
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- Moscow Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Pediatrician Jailed Over War Criticism
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Nadezhda Buyanova, 69, was sentenced to prison in November after the wife of a soldier killed in Ukraine accused her of criticizing the war during a medical appointment. According to the woman, Buyanova called her late husband a “legitimate target for Ukraine” and said Russia was “guilty.”
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- Late-Spring Snow Hits Moscow, Toppling Trees and Causing Power Outages
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Blizzards blanketed Moscow in snow on Friday in a historic first for the season, toppling trees onto cars and causing power outages for tens of thousands of residents in the wider region.
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- Russian Police Raid Gyms and Martial Arts Clubs Amid Spring Conscription Drive
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities, with activists describing them as part of a broader crackdown that intensified ahead of the country’s spring military draft.
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- McDonald's and Coca-Cola Rule Out Return to Russia
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- McDonald’s and Coca-Cola continue to see risks to operating in Russia and do not currently plan to return to the country, Bloomberg reported, citing the companies’ responses to the B4UKraine Coalition advocacy group.
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- Investigation Reveals Systematic Torture of Ukrainians in Russian Prisons
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian prison authorities are systematically torturing Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war across a network of detention centers, according to a collaborative investigation led by Forbidden Stories, an international consortium of journalists.
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- Ukrainian Reporter Was Tortured in Russian Prison Before Her Death, Investigation Finds
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured during the year she spent in Russian detention, and her body was returned to Ukraine with several organs missing, according to a joint investigation published on Tuesday.
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- Trump Flip-Flops on Putin’s Intentions for Peace in Ukraine
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday once again claimed that Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants peace in Ukraine, just days after suggesting the opposite.
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- Kremlin Rebuffs Zelensky’s Ceasefire Proposal, Says ‘Nuances’ Remain Unresolved
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for a 30-day ceasefire, saying “nuances” raised earlier by Russia’s Vladimir Putin remain unresolved.
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- Zelensky Calls Putin Truce Proposal 'Attempt at Manipulation'
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday branded a three-day truce announced by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as an "attempt at manipulation."
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- Remnants of Early 20th-Century Japanese Temple Found in Far East Russia
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- North Korean workers in Far East Russia’s Sakhalin region have discovered remnants of an early 20th-century Japanese temple, local media reported Tuesday.
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- Recognizing Territorial Claims Is Key to Ukraine Peace Talks, Russia Says
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian authoritiessaid Monday that Moscow is ready to negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine but insisted that recognition of its claims over five Ukrainian regions, including the Crimean peninsula, was "imperative" to ending the war.
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- Putin Thanks North Korea for Helping Retake Kursk as Pyongyang Confirms Troop Deployment
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for sending troops to help Russia reclaim territory from Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.
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- CIA Deputy Director’s Son Killed Fighting for Russia in Ukraine
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The son of CIA Deputy Director Julianne Gallina was killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine last year, the investigative news outlet IStories reported Friday, citing a leaked database from a Moscow military recruitment center.
#CIA #Ukraine #Russia
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- Russian Central Bank Holds Key Rate Despite Fears of Economic Slowdown
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russia’s Central Bank held its key interest rate at 21% on Friday, maintaining borrowing costs at a historic high despite mounting concerns from businesses and banks that the economy is slowing.
Inflation has surged across the Russian economy in recent months, fueled by soaring government spending on the war in Ukraine and acute labor shortages.
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- Moscow Returns Body of Ukrainian Reporter Who Died in Russian Detention
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian authorities have returned the body of a Ukrainian journalist who died under unclear circumstances while in Russian custody last fall.
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- Lithuania’s Capital City Unveils War Evacuation Plan Amid Fears of Russian Aggression
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The city of Vilnius unveiled a wartime evacuation plan on Wednesday as the Baltic nation says it is bracing for potential threats from Russia amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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- Vance Tells Russia and Ukraine to Accept Peace Terms or Risk U.S. Abandoning Talks
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned that Washington may abandon efforts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine unless Moscow and Kyiv agree to terms currently under discussion.
#JDVance #UkraineCeasefire #Moscow #USPolitics #PeaceTalks
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- Russia Doubles Budget for State-Sponsored ‘Youth Army’
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Kremlin has doubled its funding in 2025 for Yunarmiya ("Youth Army"), the state-sponsored youth organization that combines ideological indoctrination with military training for children and teenagers.
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- Moscow Court Finds Father Guilty of Abusing Daughters Who Killed Him in 2018
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A Moscow court has posthumously found a man who was killed by his daughters nearly seven years ago guilty of sexually abusing them. Krestina, Angelina and Maria Khachaturyan admitted to killing their father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, in July 2018 after what they described as years of physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
#Moscow #DomesticAbuse
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- Russian Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison Over $25 Donation to Ukrainian Army
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A court in Russia's Sverdlovsk region has sentenced a man to 12 years in a high-security penal colony for donating about $25 to the Ukrainian military.
#Russia #HumanRights #PoliticalPrisoner
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- St. Petersburg Court Jails Anti-War Teenager Nearly 3 Years for ‘Discrediting’ Army
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A judge in St. Petersburg sentenced 19-year-old anti-war activist Daria Kozyreva to nearly three years in prison on Friday for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian military.
#Russia #PoliticalPrisoner
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- Russian Orthodox Priest Claims Migrants Are Coming to ‘Replace’ Locals
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Father Yevgeny, head of the Yekaterinburg diocese, said that “many thousands” of migrants entering Russia “view the Holy Russia of the Risen Christ as a relic and an anachronism” and pose a “huge test of strength for our entire Russian civilization.”
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- Kursk Governor Has Office Blessed After Predecessor’s Arrest on Fraud Charges
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Acting Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein invited a Russian Orthodox priest to bless his office with holy water following the arrest of his predecessor on fraud charges earlier this week.
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- U.S. Will Abandon Ukraine Peace Talks ‘Within Days’ if No Progress Made, Rubio Says
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Washington would need to determine within days whether a ceasefire in Ukraine was realistically achievable, following meetings with European officials in Paris.
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- Jailed Reporter Ponomarenko Launches Second Hunger Strike Over Prison Conditions
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Jailed Russian journalist and activist Maria Ponomarenko has gone on a hunger strike to protest her treatment in solitary confinement, her support group said Thursday.
#MariaPonomarenko #HungerStrike
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- Russia's Treason Convictions Hit Post-Soviet Record in 2024
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian courts convicted a record number of citizens for treason in 2024, as the Kremlin intensified its crackdown on perceived internal threats amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and heightened tensions with the West.
According to the independent investigative outlet IStories, 145 Russian citizens were convicted of treason last year. That figure is nearly four times higher than the number of convictions in 2023 and the highest recorded in modern Russian history, the outlet said.
#Russia #Treason #Kremlin #WarInUkraine #HumanRights
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- Wildberries Accused of Hiring North Koreans at Moscow Region Warehouse
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries said it launched a pilot project to employ foreign laborers after videos surfaced online claiming to show North Korean workers at its Moscow region warehouse.
#Wildberries #Russia #OnlineRetail #NorthKorea
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- Russia Sentences Journalists to 5.5 Years in Navalny 'Extremism' Case
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Four Russian journalists were sentenced to 5.5 years each on “extremism” charges Tuesday over their alleged work with the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s organizations, the independent news outlet SOTAvision reported.
#Navalny #HumanRights #Russia
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- Young Russians Given Lengthy Prison Sentences for Ukraine-Linked Helicopter Arson
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A military court in Moscow sentenced five young Russians to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges for allegedly setting fire to a helicopter on behalf of Ukraine, authorities said. The group was accused of being paid by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry intelligence agency (HUR) to destroy a Ka-32 search and rescue helicopter at Moscow’s Ostafyevo International Business Airport in April 2024.
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- Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russia’s attempts to boost its flagging birth rate — through policies promoting “traditional values,” tighter abortion restrictions and officials’ encouragement of larger families — appear to be falling short, as the number of births has fallen to its lowest level in centuries.
#Russia #BirthRate #Abortion #DemographicCrisis
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- Russian State TV Paints Deadly Sumy Attack as ‘Staged Provocation’
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russian state television portrayed Sunday’s deadly missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy as a “staged provocation” aimed at “undermining” the ongoing Ukraine ceasefire talks between Moscow and Washington.
#Russia #Ukraine #Sumy #MissileStrike #CeasefireTalks #Moscow #Washington
- Title
- Trump Envoy Suggests Allied Zones of Control in Ukraine
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Envoy to Ukraine, suggested British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the country, in an interview with The Times newspaper published Saturday.
"You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War II, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone and a British zone, a U.S. zone," he said, later clarifying on X that the United States would not be providing troops.
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- Far East Court Rules to Keep Anti-Putin Shaman in High-Security Psychiatric Facility
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A court in Far East Russia has denied a request to transfer anti-Putin shaman Alexander Gabyshev from a high-security psychiatric facility to a general hospital for the third time in two years. Gabyshev, 56, was arrested in 2019, months after setting off by foot from his native republic of Sakha to Moscow to “exorcize” Vladimir Putin.
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- Putin Will Not Face Prosecution for War Crimes While President
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials will not face prosecution while in office under a future Western tribunal for the war in Ukraine, Euronews reported Thursday, citing anonymous EU officials. The special court is expected to be based in The Hague.
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- Chechen Authorities Publicly Display Body of Alleged Police Attacker
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Authorities in Russia’s southern republic of Chechnya publicly displayed the body of a teenager accused of stabbing two traffic police officers earlier this week.
The alleged assailant was fatally shot after attacking officers in the town of Achkhoy-Martan on Monday evening. Investigators said one officer died of his injuries.
#Chechnya #Teenager #RussiaNews
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- Russian Lawmakers Move to Ban Satanism, Decry Alleged Azov ‘Ritual Orgies’
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russia’s lower-house State Duma hosted a roundtable late Tuesday dedicated to combating “Satanism” and other ideological beliefs that authorities claim threaten Russian statehood.
Lawmakers at the meeting identified Satanism as a “misanthropic ideology based on the justification of evil,” saying that its goal was to destroy Russia’s religious denominations as part of Western hybrid warfare. They compared it with Nazism and LGBTQ+, according to the newspaper Vedomosti.
#Russia #StateDuma #Satanism #LGBTQ
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- Syria’s New President Has Russian Family Ties
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa has family ties to Russia through his brother and top cabinet appointee, who is married to a Russian businesswoman, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.
#Syria #AhmedAlSharaa #Russia #MiddleEast #GlobalNews
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- Zelensky Says Ukrainian Troops Captured Chinese Nationals Fighting for Russia
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that his armed forces had captured two Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian troops, adding that he would seek an explanation from Beijing and a response from Ukraine’s allies.
#Zelensky #Ukraine #China
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- Trump Criticizes Ongoing Bombing in Ukraine Amid Ceasefire Talks
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday voiced frustration over ongoing violence in Ukraine as his administration continues to pursue a deal to end the three-year war.
“I’m not happy about what’s going on” in Ukraine, Trump told reporters at the White House, saying that “they’re bombing like crazy right now,” even as he claimed the parties were “sort of close” to a deal.
#Trump #Ukraine #PeaceNegotiations #WhiteHouse
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- Champagne and Social Movements: The Ovechkin-Putin Relationship
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Alexander Ovechkin scored his 895th NHL career goal on Sunday, surpassing previous record-holder Wayne Gretzky. With 12:34 remaining in the second period, the 39-year-old Russian drove home a long-range shot, sealing his place in NHL history.
While Ovechkin is known to many as the darling of the Washington Capitals and the NHL, he is also known for his support of and longtime rapport with Russian President Vladimir Putin — a relationship that has drawn controversy over the years.
#Ovechkin #NHL #895Goals #Gretzky #Capitals #Hockey #Ovi #SportsNews #Putin #Russia
- Title
- Zelensky Slams ‘Weak’ U.S. Reply to Russian Strike on His Hometown
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the U.S. embassy for what he called a "weak" statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike on his hometown which killed 18 people, including nine children.
In one of the deadliest strikes in recent weeks, a Russian missile on Friday evening struck a residential area near a children's playground in the central Ukrainian town of Kryvyi Rih.
#Ukraine #Zelensky #US #MissileStrike #KryvyiRih #Russia #War
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- U.K. Finds Underwater Suspected Russian Nuke Spy Sensors
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The British military has found Russian sensors in seas around the country that it believes were attempting to spy on its nuclear submarines, the Sunday Times reported.
The Royal Navy found some devices planted on the sea bed while several washed ashore, the newspaper reported.
#BritishMilitary #Russia #NuclearSubmarines #RoyalNavy #NationalSecurity #News
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- FSB Arrests Russian Soldier Over Alleged Suicide Bomb Plot on Military Academy
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday that its agents arrested a soldier who was allegedly working with the Ukrainian military to plan a suicide bomb attack on a military academy.
In an interrogation video published by the law enforcement body, the man claimed that Ukrainian military officials offered to help bring his children to the West if he carried out a suicide attack on the Russian military academy.
#Russia #FSB #MilitaryAcademy #UkrainianMilitary #SuicideAttack #NationalSecurity #InterrogationVideo #MilitaryIntelligence #ConflictNews #WarInUkraine #SecurityThreat #Arrested #Espionage #CrisisResponse #GeopoliticalTensions
- Title
- White House Officials Advise Trump Against Calling Putin Until Ukraine Ceasefire Reached
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- White House officials have advised U.S. President Donald Trump not to speak with Russia’s Vladimir Putin until the Kremlin commits to a broad ceasefire in Ukraine, NBC News reported Friday, citing two administration sources familiar with the matter.
Trump and Putin have held at least two phone calls since February. The U.S. president said Sunday that he planned to speak with Putin again this week as part of his push for warmer relations with Russia and a possible in-person meeting.
#Trump #Putin #UkraineCeasefire #WhiteHouse #Diplomacy #InternationalRelations #NBCNews #USRussia #PeaceTalks
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- Large Fire Breaks Out at Shipbuilding Plant in Northwestern Russia
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A large fire broke out at a shipbuilding plant in the northwestern republic of Karelia, regional authorities said early Thursday.
Petrozavodsk’s Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant, where the fire erupted, builds and repairs cargo vessels, as well as smaller service ships, such as tug boats and fishing boats.
#Fire #Shipbuilding #Karelia #Petrozavodsk #Russia
