The Latest Breaking News from Kremlin

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Moscow's latest expulsion of U.S. diplomats was a forced measure, after Washington last month said it was expelling 12 Russian diplomats at the country's U.N. mission in New York over national security concerns.

The Kremlin on Thursday said sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich played an early role in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, but the process was now in the hands of the two sides' negotiating teams.

At least 7,000 Russian soldiers have likely been killed in the first month of combat during the Kremlin-ordered invasion of Ukraine, Nato officials said, and the total number could be as high as 15,000.

Chechen forces deployed in Ukraine appear to be more of a ‘PR initiative’ than military utility, analysts say.

But the Kremlin is not thought to have given up hope of surrounding and seizing the capital

The tightly-controlled Kremlin state TV have issued a series of warnings across its stations that the presence of any NATO peacekeeping troops could lead to World War III

Russia’s war in Ukraine has killed thousands, reduced entire cities to rubble and forced millions to flee their homes

Russian President Vladimir Putin had banked on NATO being split when he launched an invasion of Ukraine last month, but Putin actually sparked the exact opposite, with the alliance now being “more united than ever”, US President Joe Biden said at a NATO-G7 summit in Brussels on Thursday. Read FRANCE…

For weeks, Russia’s military assault on Ukraine has been complemented by full-fledged information warfare. The Kremlin has propagandised Russian state media, and is trying to control the narrative online too.

Ukraine President Volodymr Zelenskyy is calling on people worldwide to gather in public Thursday to show support for his embattled country on the one-month anniversary of the Russian invasion

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