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Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its military action in Ukraine will not be lifted anytime soon, the CEO of Russia’s second largest lender VTB Andrei Kostin told Reuters ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that he had deliberately used his black labrador Koni to intimidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting in 2007 that became a notorious diplomatic ...

Russia is waging a “staggeringly reckless campaign” of sabotage in Europe while also stepping up its nuclear sabre-rattling to scare other countries off from backing Ukraine, Britain’s foreign spy ...

Russia may use its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile to attack “decision-making centres” in Kyiv in response to Ukraine’s firing of Western missiles at Russian territory, President Vladimir Putin said ...

“Bus number seven was not running this morning,” Olga Slatina wrote on social media from the Sverdlovsk region in Russia’s Ural Mountains. “The dispatcher said it wouldn’t be ...

Russia carried out its second big attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, with national and local officials reporting blasts and emergency power cuts across the country ...

The Russian rouble weakened beyond the 110 mark to the US dollar on Wednesday, a threshold that some analysts believe could prompt authorities to take action to support the currency, which ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that an idea reportedly being floated in the West that Washington should give Ukraine nuclear weapons was “insane” and that preventing such a ...

NATO members on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for Ukraine during talks with the country’s officials held in response to Russia’s launch of an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile last ...

Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat for alleged spying, in the latest blow to the already dire state of relations between the two countries. The FSB ...

Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is “absolutely irresponsible”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, in response to a report in the New York Times ...

Russian forces staged their largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, cutting power to much of the western region of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings in Kyiv region, Ukraine’s ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it had noted that President-elect Donald Trump’s circle was speaking about a potential peace plan for Ukraine while the current U.S. administration of ...

Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would keep testing its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat and had a stock ready for use, while Ukraine said it was ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has revived EU enlargement. European leaders often talk about enlargement as a ‘geopolitical necessity’. However, the rhetoric on enlargement never extends ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of ramping up tension and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced a greater risk of nuclear war, ...

Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in response to the U.S. and UK’s allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced ...

Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Kyiv’s air force said, in the first known use in the war of such a powerful, ...

Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, five ...

The United States shut its embassy in Kyiv on Wednesday due to “specific information of a potential significant air attack” and told its citizens in Ukraine to be ready to ...

Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region. Debris of one hit the facility, starting a fire that was ...

The United States was not surprised by Russia lowering its threshold for a nuclear strike and does not plan to adjust its own nuclear posture in response, the White House ...

President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the United States on Tuesday, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike just days after the administration of Joe Biden reportedly allowed Ukraine ...