Russia

By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn President Vladimir Putin is poised to tighten his grip on power on Sunday in a Russian election that is certain to deliver him a ...

Ukraine launched 35 drones against broad areas of Russia, sparking a brief fire at an oil refinery, targeting Moscow and disrupting electricity in border areas, Russia said early on Sunday, the ...

By Maria Demertzis On security issues, the European Union does not speak collectively with one voice and member states are very far from having the same objectives on defence. Yet, ...

A Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in western Russia and a separate drone strike set an oil refinery ablaze on Saturday, the second day of an election that President ...

Russia’s election was marred on Friday by a series of disruptions including dye being poured into ballot boxes, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a polling station in President Vladimir ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine would be punished for trying to disrupt the Russian presidential election by shelling civilian targets in Russian territory and using 2,500 armed soldiers ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that its forces had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to launch a cross-border attack on Russia’s Belgorod region on Thursday. In a statement, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe should prepare for war if it wants peace, calling President Vladimir Putin’s Russia an adversary that would not stop in Ukraine ...

Ukrainian foreign ministry called voting for Russia’s presidential election that is also being held in Ukraine‘s occupied territories illegal and void and called on its international partners not ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview to state media did not constitute a threat to use them. Putin told the ...

European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to provide 5 billion euros for military aid for Ukraine as part of a revamp of an EU-run assistance fund, the Belgian EU presidency said. ...

Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries in a second day of heavy drone attacks on Wednesday, causing a fire at Rosneft’s biggest refinery in what President Vladimir Putin said was ...

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered ...

Armed fighters purporting to be Russian citizens who oppose the Kremlin said they carried out cross-border incursions into western Russia from Ukraine using tanks on Tuesday, but Moscow said it ...

Ukraine pounded targets across Russia on Tuesday with at least 25 drones and seven missiles, Russia’s defence ministry said, in a sweeping attack that one local official said had left ...

Turkey is ready to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in ...

Microsoft MSFT.O said on Friday that hackers linked to Russia’s foreign intelligence were trying again to break into its systems, using data stolen from corporate emails in January ...

The Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Moscow on Friday urged Cypriots to avoid crowded areas, citing security concerns. This advisory comes amidst reports of potential terrorist attacks targeting ...

The U.S. embassy in Russia warned that “extremists” had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at ...

Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called Joe Biden a “mad” disgrace to the United States on Friday and said the U.S. president had no right ...

Dozens of oil tankers used by Russia have stopped sailing under the Liberian and Marshall Islands flags in recent weeks after the United States ramped up sanctions enforcement on ships ...

Russian aircraft struck two bases operated by fighters in Syria’s Idlib province, a Russian official was quoted by news agencies as saying on Thursday, claiming to have killed 20 anti-government ...

Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance ...

When Mohammed Asfan from India’s Hyderabad city travelled to Russia to work as a “helper” in the army, his family never imagined he would end up fighting in the ...