#Russia

Russia has passed a law allowing its central bank and other financial institutions to operate their own defence systems and arm staff to repel drone attacks, a document published by ...

Air defence units in the port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea downed over 20 Ukrainian drones early on Wednesday, with Ukraine also using Storm Shadow missiles, the city’s governor said ...

Kyiv residents and foreign embassies are shrugging off Moscow’s threat of a wave of heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital as nothing new after years of war, displaying a ...

NATO will strengthen the defence of its eastern flank with a new structure that would facilitate the rapid deployment of forces in Latvia and Estonia in the event of a ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov advised US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday of Moscow’s decision to launch strikes on sites in Kyiv linked to the Ukrainian military, ...

Russia pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with hundreds of drones and missiles on Sunday in one of the heaviest bombardments of the city since the start of the four-year war, ...

Russia is preparing a strike against Ukraine using a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, citing intelligence from Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe. The ...

The death toll from a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has risen to 18, with many of the victims young women, Russian ...

Russia said on Thursday that it would provide active support to Cuba despite attempts by the United States to intimidate and tighten the “sanctions noose” around the Communist‑run island ...

Authorities have frozen more than €3 million in luxury real estate linked to former Russian politician and businessman Mikhail Yurevich, a naturalised Cypriot who remains wanted internationally over allegations tied to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has few good options in Ukraine with his armed forces unable to advance significantly on the battlefield while Western sanctions are chipping away at his resources, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed retaliation against Russia on Friday after laying red roses at the ruins of a Kyiv apartment block destroyed in a missile strike that killed 24 people, ...

Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, ...

European governments on Monday rejected asuggestion by Russian President Vladimir Putin that former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could represent them in possible future talks with Moscow on the continent’s ...

Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they had agreed to a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire that will run from May 9 to May 11, and U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Two drones entered NATO member Latvia from Russian territory and crashed, the Latvian army said on Thursday morning. The drones were probably launched by Ukraine against targets in Russia, Latvia’...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it had warned diplomatic missions to evacuate staff promptly from Kyiv in the event of a mass strike by Moscow in response ...

Belarus has released Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist, as part of a prisoner exchange at the border with Poland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Poland ...

A Ukrainian drone attack has caused a “large-scale fire” at Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, forcing the evacuation of nearby buildings, local officials said on Tuesday. ...

Romania recovered fragments of two drones after an overnight Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, its defence ministry said in statements on Saturday, while the foreign ministry said it had summoned ...

A major Russian overnight attack on Ukraine killed seven people and injured dozens more as Moscow launched over 660 drones and missiles in a barrage that targeted the city of Dnipro ...

Eight people including a child remain hospitalised in Kyiv after being wounded in a shooting that killed six people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday. A Russian-born man opened fire ...

Russia unleashed missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 13 people, including a 12-year-old child, injuring several dozens and badly damaging buildings, officials said ...

A Russian drone attack killed one person in Ukraine’s frontline eastern Donetsk region on Sunday, Ukrainian police said on Monday, before the expiry of a ceasefire to mark Orthodox ...