The Latest Breaking News from Russia

Wagner chief says his forces will pull out of Bakhmut while Ukraine says they are reinforcing positions; Zaporizhzhia villages near frontline evacuated

Analysts say Ukraine has drones capable of reaching Moscow and Russia has increasingly claimed Kyiv's weapons have been getting closer to the capital. But the circumstances of the Kremlin strike remain "curious".

There are signs that point to further deterioration in the geo-political climate, and to a distinct possibility of impending conflict, which India must note

Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891.

Revelation raises questions about whether US and Europe should have been more prepared for 2014 invasion

A Moscow court has ordered pretrial detention for a theater director facing charges of justifying terrorism,

Poland's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador in protest after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland’s ambassador to Russia

A threat by the leader of private Russian military company Wagner to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize a city in eastern Ukraine is another episode in his dispute with Russia’s regular military over credit and tactics

Talking Europe interviews Rastislav Káčer, Slovakia's straight-talking minister for foreign and European affairs. Slovakia became the first NATO country to deliver warplanes to Ukraine, and Káčer discusses what difference that delivery could make, as well as Slovakia's plans to double its ammunition production. He also talks about his country's moves…