The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers are expected to meet with their counterparts from the BRICS economic bloc in Cape Town on Thursday

The government’s decision to hold the summit via videoconferencing was only intimated to them just before the MEA announcement.

Drone attack and explosions in Moscow region seen as ‘logical next step’ by some as Ukraine retaliates

The United States is still gathering information on reports of drones striking in Moscow, the White House said on Tuesday, reiterating that Washington does not support attacks inside Russia and is focused on helping Ukraine retake its territory.

ICC warrant for Russian president’s arrest issued in March over alleged war crimes in Ukraine

After the biggest ever drone strike on Moscow brought the Ukraine war to the Russian capital, Muscovites carried on with their lives with the fatalism for which they are famous.

Wartime noise from wailing drones to exploding missiles keeps Ukrainians up, and united against Moscow.

One Russian politician says residents should prepare for the ‘new reality’ of attacks on the capital

Norwegian authorities say that a beluga whale first spotted in Arctic Norway in 2019 with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility has been spotted off Sweden's west coast

The European Union levied new sanctions against Iran’s Revolutionary Guards last week over a brutal crackdown on protesters. But some experts question the effectiveness of sanctions, saying they risk pushing Tehran closer to other sanctioned states, namely Russia and China. Instead, they advocate the creation of a special task force…

Russia has accused the Ukrainian government of launching “a terrorist drone attack” on Moscow.