The Latest Breaking News from Russia

An analyst says Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s ousted president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc

The cynicism of Vladimir Putin knows no bounds, said The Sunday Times. Having abandoned the UN-brokered grain deal that ensured safe passage for Ukraine’s crops to markets, despite warnings that it could cause “hunger or worse” in low-income African nations, the Russian president last week had the nerve to pose…

Air raid alerts were heard in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia while a blood transfusion centre in Kharkiv was reportedly targeted

Chemical tanker SIG received a hole in the engine room in the attack, news agency reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday said Russian forces struck a blood transfusion centre in northeast Ukraine. The news came shortly after a Russian missile attack reportedly hit an aeronautics manufacturing facility in western Ukraine. Earlier, Ukrainian drones in the Kerch Strait hit a Russian tanker, briefly halting traffic on the…

On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers

The incident comes a day after Kyiv said that it had struck a Russian landing ship with a sea drone

An ‘extremely fierce battle’ in the eastern city of Bakhmut and explosions reported near key Crimean bridge

These are the main developments as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 528th day.