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Russian Military Hit by Uncertainty as One General Is Killed and Another Remains Absent

Gen. Sergei Surovikin of Russia, a onetime ally of the Wagner chief who hasn’t been seen publicly since a short-lived mutiny last month, is “taking a rest,” one of the country’s top lawmakers said Wednesday, when pressed by a reporter. “He is unavailable right now,” the lawmaker, Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Russian Duma’s defense committee, added in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app before hurrying away from the reporter. Surovikin, the chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, wa

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Germany has found traces of explosives in samples taken from a yacht that it suspects "may have been used to transport the explosives" to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, according to a letter written with Sweden and Denmark updating the UN Security Council on the probe

The update by the three investigators was sent to the UN Security Council ahead of a meeting called by Russia, which has been critical of not being informed about the probe.