The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

The United States and Britain are prepared to punish Russian elites close to President Vladimir Putin with asset freezes and travel bans if Russia enters Ukraine, Washington and London said on Monday as tensions also spilled over at the United Nations.

President Joe Biden said Russia would face "swift and severe consequences" from the U.S. and its allies if Moscow attacked Ukraine, but he also kept the path of diplomacy open by suggesting the possibility of dialogue.

Tensions between Russia and the United States over Moscow's troop build-up near Ukraine spilled into the United Nations Security Council on Monday, with both countries accusing each other of being "provocative."

Pro-Kremlin media assure audiences that Russia doesn’t want a war, as independent news laments Putin’s dangerous games.

The prospect of conflict between Russia and NATO countries over Ukraine has raised fears of an energy crisis in Europe. Russia provides nearly half of Europe’s natural gas, and some leaders worry that Moscow could tighten the flow if hostilities break out. To weaken Russia’s leverage, the Biden administration is…

The Russian capital has started offering a domestically developed coronavirus vaccine to children in the 12-17 age group amid the country’s biggest infection surge yet due to the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant

An 18-year-old from Moscow, miraculously climbed out of a window 90ft above the ground in order to escape a burning flat

British foreign secretary Liz Truss says ‘those in and around the Kremlin will have nowhere to hide’

Ukraine news from January 31: Russia accuses the West of ‘whipping up tensions’ over Ukraine.

Moscow also claims that sanctions would hurt the UK

Seen as Putin’s closest EU ally, his meeting with Russian president will be watched nervously in Europe’s capitals