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A group of 400 mercenaries from the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces were reportedly sent to Ukraine up to five weeks ago to 'decapitate' the Ukrainian government.

New law threatens lengthy jail sentences for ‘false’ reports

‘People are now being fired from their jobs, men are being prepared to be drafted into the army, everyone is in a very anxious mood’

Analysis: Rising stakes seem to lure the president deeper into the Ukraine war, with polls backing him and his officials compromised

Elsina Khayrova - the wife of Dmitry Tsvetkov, said to be on the Kremlin's "most-wanted list" - was ordered to pay £117,000 in a dispute with a construction firm over her Surrey home

Kremlin-linked private militia increasingly central to Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’

As the United States and Western allies grapple with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is taking a unique approach to fighting a surge in Russian disinformation and propaganda.

Putin forces intensify strikes on civilian areas as Zelenskiy issues furious rebuke to Nato over no-fly zone refusal

What do ordinary Russians think about the war that Vladimir Putin has unleashed on Ukraine? The Kremlin’s justifications: that Ukraine’s leadership has been subjecting ethnic Russians in that country to genocide and that the government in Kyiv is led by neo-Nazis appear far-fetched to most people outside Russia. So does…

As the invasion enters its eight day, Daniel Keane looks at how the Kremlin’s media machine is reporting the crisis

President Vladimir Putin was denounced for his “recklessness” after Ukraine said that Russian forces attacked a nuclear power plant, raising the stakes in the nine-day-old war and prompting calls for an even more robust response to the Kremlin’s aggression.