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Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike U.S. forces and other targets, according ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday there were a huge number of requests for Russian energy from a range of different places amid a grave global energy crisis that was shaking ...

The Kremlin on Monday said that the Iran war was escalating in both geography and economic impact, and that the whole Middle East region was “on fire” due to the ...

A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced as an “Easter escalation,” as Moscow shifts tactics ...

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, said on Friday that Moscow should drop its “tolerant attitude” towards Ukraine’s possible EU membership. “The EU is no ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised Russia for answering his offer of an Easter truce with airstrikes on Wednesday but he praised as “positive” fresh talks with U.S. mediators aimed at ...

Sports authorities in Ukraine asked the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday to examine the “neutral” status of Russian athletes they accused of having links to the military or competing in ...

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken full control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, suggesting they had wrested control of a small sliver ...

The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several EU foreign ministers arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Bucha massacre and to voice ...

Ukrainians have criticised German arms maker Rheinmetall after its CEO dismissed their country’s drone-focused defence innovation as basic technology put together by housewives in kitchens. For Kyiv, drones have ...

The Kremlin on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putinhad asked leading businessmen to donate money to stabilise Russia’s finances as it presses on with the war in Ukraine. ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has asked oligarchs to donate to the country’s budget in a bid to stabilise the country’s finances as he presses on with his ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he had authorised the military to board and detain Russian ships in British waters to disrupt a network of vessels that his government ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), police and national guard in Moscow have been put on higher alert due to intelligence that there is a threat of a sabotage attack ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Iranian leaders on Nowruz and said Moscow remained a loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The extent of Moscow’...

Ukraine has deployed military units to five Middle Eastern countries to help protect critical and civilian infrastructure against drones, Ukrainian security council secretary Rustem Umerov said on Friday after visiting ...

A pro-Kremlin figure who unexpectedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in a social media post this week that went viral has been placed in a ...

Russian officials promised compensation to farmers in the Novosibirsk region on Thursday, where authorities have ordered thousands of cattle to be culled, sparking Russia’s largest non-political protests since the ...

Cyprus businesses want Russian tourists back, ambassador says Russian ambassador to Cyprus Murat Zyazikov has claimed that European Union sanctions have resulted in an annual revenue loss of over €1 billion ...

Telegram messaging app is still ​not complying with ‌Russian laws, the state communications regulator Roskomnadzor said ​on Wednesday, ​according to state run news agency ⁠RIA. Russian authorities have ​repeatedly accused ...

Russia said it had unwavering solidarity with Cuba on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he expected to have the honour of “taking Cuba” and that “I can ...

A senior Russian security official warned on Tuesday that the pace and development of Ukrainian drone production meant that no Russian region was safe from attack. Sergei Shoigu, the secretary ...

Russia said on Monday that Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Moscow with about 250 drones over the weekend, and that wave after wave of long-range drones had been shot ...

A Greek flagged and owned tanker was struck by a missile off the Russian port of Novorossiysk in the Black Sea, authorities said on Saturday, though all 24 crew members on ...