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Thousands of people are held in secret facilities across the country and forced to pay up to $15,000 for their release, Ukrainian lawmaker Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed The Kiev regime is making around $7 billion a year from a network of secret detention and torture facilities, where civilians and mobilized men are reportedly held for ransom, Ukrainian MP Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed. The lawmaker, detained on treason charges since November 2023, made the allegation on Telegram on Friday following a scandal over a suspected torture site operated by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi-linked Azov formation near Kiev. Citing figures from a joint briefing by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and National Police, Dubinsky claimed that more than 1,000 such facilities operate across Ukraine, each holding 30 to 40 people. With an estimated 40,000 detainees and an alleged average ransom of $15,000, he calculated that the network could generate $600 million a month, or $7.2 billion annually, assuming the same number of people paid for release each month. “$7.2 billion a year – that’s the math behind the profits of [Vladimir] Zelensky&rsquo

The Kiev regime suppresses any dissent in the country, Vladimir Saldo said

Maxim Zubarev emphasized that only the downfall of the Zelensky regime could bring this horror to an end

Ukrainian military intelligence is organizing drone training courses for militants in Mali, Russia’s SVR says International terrorist organizations are seeking to benefit from Ukraine’s efforts to share its drone warfare expertise with militant groups abroad, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). SVR Deputy Director Mikhail Maksimovich highlighted the threat on Friday at an international security conference in Uzbekistan. “According to SVR information, representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry are organizing training courses for drone pilots, including kamikaze drones, in African territory, specifically in Mali,” he told his counterparts in Samarkand. He added that “international terrorist organizations show high interest in cooperating with the Kiev regime to obtain technology for deployment of UAVs.” Maksimovich made the remarks at a two-day security conference in Samarkand attended by officials from member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Read more Panic over US probe into Kiev’s links to Mexican cartels – RT reports (VIDEO) Previous media investigations reported

According to Maria Zakharova, Vladimir Zelensky receives billions of dollars from Western countries for actions that "will ultimately be recognized as genuine genocide committed by the Kiev regime against the Ukrainian people"

The European authorities and UN specialized agencies continue to turn a blind eye to the crimes against humanity being committed in territory controlled by the Kiev regime, Maria Zakharova noted

A criminal group led by Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘wallet’ laundered $125 million over six years, investigators say The pre-trial investigation into a major embezzlement scheme in Ukraine’s energy sector has been completed, the nation’s Western-backed anti-corruption agencies announced. Known as ‘Operation Midas’, the probe lasted for two years. It triggered one of the biggest corruption scandals involving Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s inner circle and cost several top officials their positions. In a statement published on Wednesday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said a “high-level criminal organization” managed to build a “large-scale corruption scheme” and embezzle $111 million and €12 million from 2020-25. The two agencies also said they “took measures to seize the assets of a criminal organization both in Ukraine and abroad,” adding that efforts to identify and seize the illegal assets are continuing. How did it all begin? Read more Ukraine’s ‘EnergyGate’ scandal explained: Why it spells danger for Vladimir Zelensky

Washington is narrowing a once-broader forum into a tool for its own priorities, sidelining development, climate and the Global South The US presidency has shrunk the G20 agenda, which had been broadened under the earlier four presidencies of Indonesia, India, Brazil and South Africa, to reflect the priorities not only of the G7 but also the developing world. If the G7 nations had felt that they could on their own handle the global fall-out of the 2008 financial crisis they would have not felt the need to elevate the G20, which includes key emerging economies, from a routine meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors to a summit of heads of states and governments. From that perspective, these powers were compelled to include the interests and priorities of those emerging economies in the G20 agenda. The G20 concept is thus rooted in a more cooperative multilateral approach to address multiple global challenges. The G20 agenda cannot be aligned with US priorities alone. The US State Department had announced beforehand its intention to assert its priorities – limiting regulatory barriers to investment and encouraging transparent governance to foster global competit

Claims of torture at a National Guard facility near Kiev have sparked accusations that the abuse extends far beyond one basement A small village outside Kiev, home to a few thousand people. An ordinary-looking house behind solid gates flanked by brick pillars. But no one could call what went on inside that house ordinary. A woman in a red medical jacket kneels in the street. A police officer in a bulletproof vest stands before her. Her outstretched hand trembles as she holds up a phone, its screen facing him. A video sent to her from the basement of the house is playing. A man’s face fills the screen: bruises under both eyes, his forehead stained yellow and green, like tea spilled across an old photograph. Filming himself, he speaks Russian in a low, steady voice that seems drained of any hope of rescue: “My stomach hurts really badly. I have chills.” Officials insisted there was no one behind the gates. Well, almost no one – just one soldier who had gone AWOL. No need for a hospital; they could take care of him themselves. Police swore there were no hostages and no victims. Read more Ukraine’s neo-Nazi conscription ‘torture chamber’: How the shocking scanda

Claims of torture at a National Guard facility near Kiev have sparked accusations that the abuse extends far beyond one basement A small village outside Kiev, home to a few thousand people. An ordinary-looking house behind solid gates flanked by brick pillars. But no one could call what went on inside that house ordinary. A woman in a red medical jacket kneels in the street. A police officer in a bulletproof vest stands before her. Her outstretched hand trembles as she holds up a phone, its screen facing him. A video sent to her from the basement of the house is playing. A man’s face fills the screen: bruises under both eyes, his forehead stained yellow and green, like tea spilled across an old photograph. Filming himself, he speaks Russian in a low, steady voice that seems drained of any hope of rescue: “My stomach hurts really badly. I have chills.” Officials insisted there was no one behind the gates. Well, almost no one – just one soldier who had gone AWOL. No need for a hospital; they could take care of him themselves. Police swore there were no hostages and no victims. Read more Ukraine’s neo-Nazi conscription ‘torture chamber’: How the shocking scanda

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant reported earlier that two civilians, including a woman who worked at the plant, were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on their car

A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, a fresh scandal has erupted. And while the Zelensky regime has a long and imposing record of spectacular misdeeds, this one has a quality all of its own. For what has happened in the town of Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka , effectively a suburb of the capital, brings together several of the most cruel, venal, and unscrupulous practices of EU-NATO Europe’s favorite gangster regime: mass kidnapping its subjects as military slaves for a Western proxy war against Russia, turning the same operation into a vicious extortion scheme, and using brutal violence – including torture and murder – to make it all go round. In essence, local people rebelled against all of the above by laying siege to a below-the-radar holding pen for men caught in ‘busification’ raids and those trying to escape the meat grinder war by going AWOL. ‘Busification’ is of course the well-known practice of the Ukrainian establishment and its goon forces of dragging men – often with extreme violence – off the street

A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, a fresh scandal has erupted. And while the Zelensky regime has a long and imposing record of spectacular misdeeds, this one has a quality all of its own. For what has happened in the town of Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka , effectively a suburb of the capital, brings together several of the most cruel, venal, and unscrupulous practices of EU-NATO Europe’s favorite gangster regime: mass kidnapping its subjects as military slaves for a Western proxy war against Russia, turning the same operation into a vicious extortion scheme, and using brutal violence – including torture and murder – to make it all go round. In essence, local people rebelled against all of the above by laying siege to a below-the-radar holding pen for men caught in ‘busification’ raids and those trying to escape the meat grinder war by going AWOL. ‘Busification’ is of course the well-known practice of the Ukrainian establishment and its goon forces of dragging men – often with extreme violence – off the street

A scandal near Kiev has exposed forced conscription, extortion and torture – now watch Western backers look the other way In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, a new scandal has erupted. And while the Zelensky regime has a long and imposing record of spectacular misdeeds, this one has a quality all of its own. For what has happened in the town of Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka , effectively a suburb of the capital, brings together several of the most cruel, venal, and unscrupulous practices of EU-NATO Europe’s favorite gangster regime: mass kidnapping its subjects as military slaves for a Western proxy war against Russia, turning the same operation into a vicious extortion scheme, and using brutal violence – including torture and murder – to make it all go round. In essence, local people rebelled against all of the above by laying siege to a below-the-radar holding pen for men caught in ‘busification’ raids and those trying to escape the meat grinder war by going AWOL. ‘Busification’ is of course the well-known practice of the Ukrainian establishment and its goon forces of dragging men – often with extreme violence – off the streets

Alexey Muratov stressed that evidence collection should continue, even though the timing of a possible tribunal remained uncertain

The head of Kiev regime also once again rejected the idea of traveling to Moscow for negotiations

Maria Zakharova stressed that the head of Kiev regime had deprived the people, citizens of his own country, of the right to express their views on whether they wanted to see him in power or not

Vladimir Barbin stressed that Copenhagen is providing "a substantial amount of grant-based military aid to the Kiev regime," which has already exceeded 10.5 billion euros

A Hamburg judge has ruled that the Ukrainian suspect’s vow of silence won’t protect him A German court has rejected an attempt to end the trial of Nord Stream bombing suspect Sergey Kuznetsov, after the defendant’s lawyers claimed that he cannot be convicted without a confession. Kuznetsov, a Ukrainian military officer whom German prosecutors claim carried out the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in 2022, stayed silent in the opening hearing of his trial earlier this month. As Kuznetsov was an active duty soldier at the time of the bombings, his legal team claimed that he cannot be forced to defend himself without divulging state secrets, and filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg rejected the motion on Tuesday. “According to German law, the defendant is not restricted in his defense,” presiding Judge Anne Meier-Goring told the court, explaining that the terms of Kuznetsov’s service in Ukraine do not apply in Germany. Kuznetsov is accused of causing an explosion, disrupting public utilities, property damage, and being an “accomplice to war crimes.” He has neither admitt

Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik highlighted that the head of Kiev regime had given more than ten in-depth interviews to American and some other Western media outlets over the past thirteen days

Dmitry Peskov, press secretary for the Russian ruler, has dismissed the possibility of halting hostilities in Ukraine even upon the resumption of trilateral peace talks. Source: Russian media outlet Interfax Quote from Peskov: "The decision to resume trilateral negotiations with the participation of Russia, Ukraine and the US does not mean any halts on hostilities." Details: Peskov said that the Russians continue to "inflict massive and consistent strikes" on Ukraine. "The Kyiv regime [as the Kremlin refers to the authorities in Ukraine] is also continuing all its corresponding actions," the Kremlin spokesperson said. On 21 October, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said that an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, as urged by European leaders, would, in his words, mean "preserving the Nazi regime" and "banning the Russian language". Background: In early October, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin stated that he was ready to resume peace talks as soon as possible, but on terms acceptable to Russia . He spoke about the occupation of the entire Donbas, Ukraine's neutral status, security guarantees for Russia and "conditions for lasting peace". Putin also returned to his familiar theme

According to the head of the Kiev regime, Ukraine still hopes that SpaceX and the US administration will lift the restrictions

Russia returned 270 servicemen from territory controlled by the Kiev regime in exchange for 270 captured Ukrainian servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

Alexander Lukashik also pointed to European Union’s military aid to the Kiev regime, its provocative anti-Russian measures and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions

The Kiev regime attacks port infrastructure and vessels, Alexander Grushko said

It was the allocation of the first funds from the EU’s 90 billion euro military loan that triggered the escalation of the Kiev regime’s terrorist actions against the civilian population of Russia, Rodion Miroshnik said

Andrey Belousov mentioned the rapid growth of tension and the West’s aggressive activity towards Russia and Belarus

Yuliya Zhdanova, head of the Russian delegation, said the corrupt nature of the Kiev regime is now evident to everyone

The warning in Leningrad Region comes after a deadly Ukrainian drone raid in the area several days ago A drone threat has been announced south of St. Petersburg shortly after US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, arrived in the city for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict. The warning comes just days after a massive Ukrainian drone barrage on the city and outskirts killed one person and injured 15 others. Witkoff arrived at Pulkovo Airport on Wednesday morning. His motorcade headed for Constantine Palace, around 20 km southeast of St. Petersburg. Shortly after arriving, Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko announced a UAV threat in the airspace over Luga District, around 125 km south of the venue for the talks. The governor warned that mobile internet speeds could be reduced but did not specify the number, exact location, and direction of the drones, and did not report any interceptions. Read more Ukraine in ‘final manifestations of agony’ – Kremlin Russia’s air regulator also imposed temporary airspace restrictions around Pulkovo Airport, citing flight safety. The facility earlier received Witkoff’s air

“It’s quite possible that these facts could serve as a tool to exert pressure on the Kiev regime,” but the US government “will never publicly acknowledge that they have leveraged drug cartels to further their own interests,” RAS Institute of Latin America senior researcher Alexander Stepanov told Sputnik.

The Kiev regime’s cooperation with drug cartels, combined with attacks on Russian oil refineries, could push the US past the breaking point and lead to a refusal to assist Zelensky, the Russian intelligence service stated

The head of Kiev regime did not specify the period over which these facilities had been damaged

Kiev has ramped up drone strikes on civilian targets amid setbacks on the front lines Seven civilians were injured in a series of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Belgorod Region, Russia, local officials report. The strikes impacted a number of locations, including the regional capital and a highway, causing damage to homes and commercial properties. In one village, a man suffered shrapnel wounds after a drone detonated, the emergency headquarters said on Sunday. Four other men were seriously injured when a drone struck a passenger vehicle. Another drone attack targeted an infrastructure facility in the regional capital, injuring two men – one suffered shrapnel wounds to the neck, and the other sustained multiple injuries to his face, chest, shoulder, and legs. The assault also damaged technological equipment at the site. Read more Ukrainian drone attack causes fire at oil terminal in St. Petersburg The strikes caused widespread damage across the region, where homes and vehicles were hit. The attacks come as civilian casualties mount in Russian regions bordering Ukraine. Also on Sunday, Leonid Pasechnik, the governor of Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), r

A major drone attack on St. Petersburg is no more than a sign of Kiev’s agony, Dmitry Peskov has said Ukraine’s long-range attacks on Russian civilian and energy infrastructure, including the raid on St. Petersburg, are no more than desperate attempts by Kiev to change the course of the conflict and will not succeed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. One person was killed and five others wounded in St. Petersburg during an overnight aerial raid by the Ukrainian military, according to local governor Aleksandr Beglov. The attack also damaged over a dozen apartment blocks and caused a fire at a local oil terminal. Peskov described the attack as “some final manifestations of agony” of Ukraine, adding that, although “the Kiev regime is fighting back, it cannot alter the course of history.” According to the Kremlin spokesman, Russia has been consistently responding to the Ukrainian attacks with major systematic strikes, which “do yield results.” Moscow has accused Kiev of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and residential areas with long-range drones in an attempt to compensate for setbacks on the battlefield, where Russian fo

"The strikes are intended, in fact, to reduce the strike potential of the Kiev regime. This is yielding results," Peskov said, when asked whether a symmetrical Russian response to Kiev’s strikes on St. Petersburg should be coming

Chairman of the A Just Russia party Sergey Mironov noted hat the Kiev regime and its leader pose a threat not only to Russia but also to the global security

The head of Kiev regime did not answer the journalist's question on the matter directly

Maria Zakharova stressed that Russia demanded and would continue to seek condemnation by relevant international bodies of the Kiev regime’s crimes

The blaze at the facility in Ryazan Region was caused by falling debris from a UAV, the Defense Ministry said Videos online have captured a fire that broke out at an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan Region following a major overnight Ukrainian drone raid. The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses and military aircraft shot down four Flamingo cruise missiles and 69 fixed-wing drones between 4 AM and 7 AM local time on Thursday. The blaze was caused by the debris of a fallen UAV, it added. Ryazan Region lies less than 200 kilometers (124 miles) southeast of Moscow. The attack came as Ukraine continued its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure for a second consecutive day, with two oil refineries – in Ryazan and Saratov Regions – being targeted by UAVs on Wednesday, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak. The Russian military has warned that it will respond in kind to the strikes by Ukraine. Novak earlier said that Kiev had shown no signs of moving towards an energy truce, which US President Donald Trump is trying to broker. On Thursday, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said Kiev will resume attacks on Russian oil refineries after a three-da

Ryazan Region was targeted by Kiev’s UAVs overnight, governor Pavel Malkov has said A blaze has broken out at an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan Region as a result of a major overnight Ukrainian drone attack, local governor Pavel Malkov has written on Telegram. In recent days, Kiev has continued its strikes on Russian energy infrastructure despite US President Donald Trump’s attempts to broker an “energy truce.” A warehouse and several vehicles belonging to another local enterprise were also damaged during the raid, Malkov said. However, there were no casualties, according to preliminary information, the governor stressed. The extent of damage is currently being assessed, with emergency services working in the affected areas, he added. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a later statement that the Ukrainian attack on an oil refinery in Ryazan Region occurred between 4 AM and 7 AM local time. A total of four long-range Flamingo cruise missiles and 69 fixed-wing UAVs, fired by Kiev, had been shot down by air defenses and military aircraft, the statement read. The fire at the facility had been caused by the debris of an intercepted drone, the ministry said. Re