The Latest Breaking News from Kremlin

Russia has claimed the capture of a key railway junction as its forces fight to seize all of eastern Ukraine's contested Donbas region

Russia to seek to justify invasion of Ukraine by staging show trials of war prisoners, conflict scholars fear

Moscow planning ‘full-scale victory in Ukraine by autumn’ and besieged Sievierodonetsk almost completely surrounded by Russian forces

Report by 30 internationally recognised scholars finds ‘reasonable grounds to conclude’ Moscow in breach of Geneva Convention

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him on Friday that Moscow would meet its natural gas delivery commitments to Austria and was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with Ukraine. Nehammer made the comments to reporters after the two leaders held a 45-minute telephone call that…

Vladimir Putin, 69, met with Russian soldiers wounded during his so-called "special operation" in Ukraine at a Moscow military facility yesterday amid reports the tyrant is recovering from cancer surgery

Russia's President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of "sabotaging" the negotiating process between the two countries, the Kremlin said, citing comments he made to Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in a phone call on Friday.

(This May 27 story corrects paragraph 30 to say that EuroChem produces roughly 5%, not roughly 10%, of world fertilizer output)

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, 45, who has branded himself Vladimir Putin's "attack dog", issued a chilling threat to Poland after they pledged their ongoing support to besieged Ukraine and threatened to ban Russian energy imports

Russian TV psychic Alexander Kantonistov has predicted the ruler will face "attempts to poison and physically punish the dictator" as his "mania" and "mental disorders" spiral out of control before his death at the end of the summer

Situation in Donbas ‘even worse than people say it is’, says Ukraine’s foreign minister, as Kremlin makes further gains