Contents tagged with Siberia
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Key suspect and drivers wanted in Russia amidst 'Spider Web' drone attack investigation
The owner of four trucks from the Chelyabinsk region, used to launch drones in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, has been declared wanted. The administration of the city of Ust-Kut in the Irkutsk region initially published, then deleted, a warrant for 37-year-old Artem Timofeev. The warrant included two possible birth dates and the name of another man born in Donetsk, who never resided in the Chelyabinsk region.
According to documents analyzed by The Insider, the photo was of …
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Drone strikes halt traffic on Siberian highway R-255 near Belaya airbase
The Federal Highway R-255 "Siberia" has been blocked in the aftermath of yesterday's drone attacks in the settlement of Sredny in the Irkutsk region, according to regional news outlet IrCity.
As indicated by the Yandex traffic service, movement near the settlement, which is close to the Belaya airbase, targeted a day earlier, is clogged over a stretch of approximately 10 kilometers. Eyewitnesses report the road closure to trucks heading towards Irkutsk. A video filmed from a car window was …
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Ukrainian drones strike deep inside Russia: over 40 military planes destroyed in unprecedented operation
On Sunday, June 1, Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) launched a significant drone attack on four military airfields inside Russian territory. The attack targeted airbases "Belaya" in the Irkutsk region (around 4,700 km from Ukraine), "Olenya" in Murmansk (approximately 2,000 km away), "Ivanovo" in Ivanovo (900 km distance), and "Dyagilevo" in Ryazan (700 km away), reports Suspilne Suspilne, citing its sources in SBU.
Andrii Kovalenko, the Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under …
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Russia relocates bulk of its strategic bombers to Siberia, 4,000 km from Ukraine
In a significant strategic move, Russia is reportedly moving its strategic aviation assets to the "Belaya" airbase, situated 85 km from Irkutsk in Siberia, a staggering 4,000 kilometers away from Ukraine's border.
Satellite images of the base, now available publicly, reveal the substantial number of bombers amassed by Russia.
According to Defence Express, as of May 7, 2025, the base housed 42 Tu-22M3 aircraft along with 7 each of Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bombers. The presence of 26 MiG-31 aircraft …
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Russia moves Iskander missile systems from Siberia to Ukrainian border
Russia is moving Iskander missile systems from at least two brigades of the Eastern Military District to the west. According to an investigation of the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), the Russian missile systems are being deployed to Ukrainian borders.
In a TikTok video, which was taken in the Far East and published on Twitter on January 11, the CIT identified a 9K720 Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system. Another video, filmed in the Sverdlovsk region and posted on January 13, …
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Russia offers China to mine coal in Siberia
Russia wants to invite Chinese investors to the develop mineral deposits in its territory, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak at a meeting of the intergovernmental Russian-Chinese commission on energy cooperation.
"Thanks to joint efforts, cooperation in the energy sector is progressively developing and has reached an unprecedentedly high level," he stated following a meeting in Moscow with Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Han Zhen.
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Russia offers China one of Siberia’s largest oil fields
Russian oil giant Rosneft and NefteGazHolding, a company belonging to Igor Sechin’s associate Eduard Khudainatov, are preparing to sell Asian investors a large share in oil fields in north-eastern Siberia.
Citing federal officials and sources familiar with the negotiation proceedings, the Vedomosti news agency reported that buyers from China and India will be offered up to 40% of a project to unite four fields in Russia’s Krasnoyar Krai, including the fields that form part of the Vankor …
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India to lend Russia $1 billion and begin exporting Siberian timber
India is set to give Russia a $1 billion credit line, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum, which is being held in Vladivostok, Russia, between September 4 and 6. The funds will be used to develop the Far East.
The Indian head of state emphasized that it is completely unprecedented for India to give another country a loan. “Today’s announcement on the allocation of a credit line will be a starting platform for us, from which we will grow …
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Russia demands compensation from China for deforestation in Siberia
Russia is expecting China to invest in a joint project to restore the forest in Siberia in the wake of illegal logging and subsequent exportation to china, Dmitry Kobylkin, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, told Vedomosti in an interview.
He said that “serious work” is being done with the Chinese.
“I asked their law enforcement agencies to get involved,” Kobylkin explained, “Because I really don’t like the fact that we are dealing with their ‘comrades’ on our own here in …
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Chinese investors flee Russia
China is continuing to reduce its investments in Russia, despite Russian officials’ attempts to bring the country’s economic policy back to the East, finanz.ru reports.
By the end of 2018, China’s total direct investments in Russia had fallen by 24%, from $3.59 billion to $2.62 billion, according to statistics published by the Bank of Russia on 30 May.
Over the year, Chinese investors withdrew another $969 million from the real sector of the economy. 80% of this amount, $774 million, resulted …