The Latest Breaking News from Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years

Ryan Wesley Routh spoke to the Guardian in April 2022 when he arrived in Kyiv with a plan to ‘stand with Ukrainians’

About 100 women train to target Russian weaponry in the Kyiv suburb that captured the world’s attention at start of war.

Russian authorities have ordered the evacuation of “multiple” villages that border Ukraine in the Kursk region, a local governor said on Monday. The news comes as Moscow says its forces have wrested two more villages in the region out of Kyiv’s control. Ukraine’s foreign ministry has invited the UN and…

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was reportedly a staunch supporter of Ukraine in Russia’s war

Kremlin slams invitation as ‘pure provocation’ as it prepares to welcome Red Cross chief.

TikTok's lawyers are heading to US federal appeals court to argue that a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell or see the app banned in the country is unconstitutional. Also in this edition: Ukrainian women step up into traditionally "male" jobs amid a labour shortage due to Russia's…

Ukraine needs significant further military and financial support from Australia to help repel the Russian invasion, a committee has told government.

A Portuguese man comes to terms with the year he ran away aged just 15 to live in the Soviet Union in the 1970s

Faced with Russia's war on Ukraine, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has promised to name a designated defence commissioner as a key part of her new top team.

One dead and dozens injured in guided bomb attack, says city’s mayor, as Ukraine president says at least 100 such airstrikes are happening every day. What we know on day 936