Russia said Ukraine targeted the Moscow region with drones for a sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, damaging a building under construction in a skyscraper complex in the Russian capital.
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Gen. Sergei Surovikin, a former commander of Russia’s forces in Ukraine who has not been seen in public since the Wagner rebellion, was relieved of his duties as the chief of Russia’s air force, Russian state media reported on Wednesday.
The BRICS summit in South Africa is focused on whether to expand the five-nation club and how to counter the West. But President Vladimir Putin, unable to attend in person because he is wanted for war crimes, has put the war in Ukraine at center stage.