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A top Russian navy commander accused of war crimes was assassinated in a Ukraine-planted car bomb explosion in Crimea on Wednesday, sources said. Valery Trankovsky, who headed the 41st brigade of ...

Ukraine said Wednesday it had assassinated a Russian officer responsible for war crimes, targeting him with a car bomb inside Russia. Veniamin Mazzherin, who died at the weekend, was the deputy ...

Dmitri N. Kozak, who has said privately that the invasion was a mistake, has lost power to another senior Putin ally, Sergei V. Kiriyenko, who has embraced the military action. By Anton Troianovski ...

Dmitry Kozak, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, has resigned from his role in the Kremlin, according to spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Kozak, who reportedly opposed the Ukraine war, had been a key figure in ...

One of Vladimir Putin's advisers has left his post due his opposition to the Russian president's policies on the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has been reported. Dmitry Kozak, who is of Ukrainian ...