The Latest Breaking News from Russian Defence Ministry

Russian warships have set off to take part in a joint naval exercise with China, an exercise that showcases increasingly close defense ties between the two countries

Russian president said “we realise what nuclear weapons are”, in address to Human Rights Council

Russia relinquished its final foothold in a major city in southern Ukraine on Friday, clearing the way for victorious Ukrainian forces to reclaim the country’s only Russian-held provincial capital that could act as a springboard for further advances into occupied territory. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its troops finished withdrawing from…

The Russian Defense Ministry says it has finished pulling out its troops from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region

Putin previously said he was ‘not bluffing’ when he said Russia was prepared to use ‘all available means’ to defend its territory

Russia said on Wednesday that avoiding a nuclear clash between the world's nuclear powers was its first priority, but accused the West of "encouraging provocations with weapons of mass destruction".

The United States has not yet seen any indications that Russia's ongoing annual "Grom" exercises of its nuclear forces may be a cover for a real deployment, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday.

The Kremlin is standing by its allegation that Ukraine may be preparing to detonate a so-called dirty bomb, which disperses radioactive material, even though Ukraine, the United States, Britain and France have dismissed Moscow’s claim

It comes as Nato and Moscow conduct test nuclear exercises this week