The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

The European Union has formally approved an embargo on Russian oil and other sanctions targeting major banks and broadcasters over Moscow’s war on Ukraine

A fire which broke out at the Grand Setun Plaza business centre in western Moscow has been extinguished, Russia's emergency ministry said on Friday.

Life in Moscow and St. Petersburg remains largely normal as Russia’s military operation in Ukraine enters its 15th week.

Forced to flee to Russia, told to apply for Russian passports, curriculums changed and currency replaced. Moscow is not just seizing Ukrainian land but also ‘forcing Russia’ on the country, reports Bel Trew

Ukrainian forces say they have pushed back Russians in the city

Friday 3 June marks day 100 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s troops managed to occupy large stretches of the eastern Donbas region and secured a land bridge from Crimea. But Ukrainian troops have held their ground in the rest of the country, largely helped by weapons from the West.

Russian forces advanced deep into the ruined eastern factory city of Sievierodonetsk, but Ukrainian troops were still holding out on Friday as Russia's assault on its neighbour entered its 100th day. Ukraine's defense minister said his troops were already training in Europe to operate new, advanced missile systems pledged this…

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, on the 100th day since Russia's February 24 invasion, said his country will emerge victorious, as Russian troops pounded the Donbas region. Paris confirmed the death of a French national fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. And at a meeting in Moscow on Friday, African Union…

Ukraine said on Saturday it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, where intense fighting continued, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia's main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east.