The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

If it can retake its place at the high table of Middle Eastern politics, the Kremlin would be harking back to the Soviet Union’s superpower glory days, says historian Sergey Radchenko

Ukraine claims to have shot down 24 drones but in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv are struck; Russia dismisses latest US sanctions as ‘in vain’

Pyongyang and Moscow have an ‘arms-for-liftoff deal’, claims South Korea’s spy agency.

Israel’s ambassador to Moscow offered new details of the weekend riots at an airport in southern Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed there, saying some of the passengers had to hide in the terminal before being flown by helicopter to safety

Moscow appears to be flouting its own laws to boost its forces, targeting foreign workers from Central Asia.

The prime minister would automatically become Russia’s leader in the interim but there are a number of big names with the potential to fill Putin’s shoes

As the war enters its 616th day, these are the main developments.

We've talked of how passions have run high here in France ever since the Middle East erupted. Every word from politicians gets scrutinised for signs of favouritism. Over in Russia, there's a clear-cut line, with the foreign ministry last week welcoming a Hamas delegation and the Kremlin blaming Israel's Gaza…

Russia makes first known arrests of its own soldiers after 2022 invasion on suspicion of killing Ukrainian civilians