The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Public reacts to news that Russia is to spend more than 40% of its budget on defence and security; Russian troops occupy most of Vuhledar and raise flags. What we know on day 952

'If we would do this, they would never attack Ukraine. But they did this just because they saw no reaction,' Oleksiy Goncharenko said during a fiery speech.

A Russian strike on a southern Ukraine market killed six people on Tuesday as the nation held a moment of silence to mark a major public holiday honouring troops, authorities said.

India wants to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine. Indian shells in Ukraine’s armoury could complicate that effort.

Stephen James Hubbard, 72, was allegedly fighting in Izyum before he was captured by Russian forces in April 2022.

Stephen James Hubbard, 72, is first US citizen to be tried as a mercenary in Russia during the war with Ukraine

If FPÖ can take power it will join a growing Moscow-friendly, anti-Brussels, autocratic bloc in the EU

Al Jazeera’s defence editor on why Russia’s army is unprepared for a conflict with NATO, a scenario Putin is warning of.

Moscow said on Sunday that its air defences downed 125 Ukrainian drones overnight, in one of the largest barrages seen in Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. In Ukraine, more than a dozen civilians were injured in an overnight barrage of Russian guide bombs on the southern city…

More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia Sunday, Russian officials said, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022

Russian strikes on a hospital in the Ukrainian border city of Sumy killed nine people Saturday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Moscow for "waging war on hospitals".