NATO warns Moscow of 'severe consequences' if nuclear weapons are used
EU ministers agree to tax energy firms, but no deal on cap of gas prices
Russia is expected to annex four occupied regions of Ukraine at a lavish Kremlin ceremony on Friday that follows a threat by President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in their defence. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the...
Next week the world will celebrate peace and mankind's do-gooders when the winners of the Nobel prizes are revealed in a string of daily announcements - as war rages in Ukraine. Not since World War II has a conflict been waged between two countries so...
The annexation would be formalised at a ceremony in the Kremlin
Kremlin-backed officials in Ukraine appealed to President Vladimir Putin Wednesday to annex the regions under their control, after the territories held votes denounced by Kyiv and the West as a "sham". Ukraine called on the EU to hit Russia with more...
Parliament President confirms plans to arm Ukraine against Russia's invasion
Sanctions include ban on €7 billion worth of Russian exports
There is suspicion that the Nord Stream pipeline was sabotaged
United Nations 'committed' to Ukraine's 'territorial integrity'
MV Axioma was seized in March under Ukraine war sanctions
Seismologists say blasts were recorded before leaks reported
Relations between Washington and Moscow are at historic lows
Five children among the victims, attacker killed himself
A man opened fire and wounded a recruitment officer at an enlistment centre in Siberia on Monday, the local governor said, as tensions mount over Russia's military mobilisation for the conflict in Ukraine. The incident occurred in the town of...
The United States has warned Russia privately of "catastrophic" consequences if it uses nuclear weapons as part of the Ukraine invasion, top US officials said. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a thinly veiled threat to use nuclear arms in a speech...
Long lines of vehicles were seen at a border crossing between Mongolia and Russia on Sunday as people fled the Kremlin's call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists for the war in Ukraine. The head of a checkpoint in the town of Altanbulag told AFP...
The United Arab Emirates agreed Sunday an "energy security" agreement with Germany to supply liquefied natural gas and diesel as Berlin searches for new power sources to replace Russian supplies. Emirati industry minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber called...
Ukraine said Sunday that the southern port city of Odessa was attacked by Iranian-made drones overnight, two days after a Russian attack with such a weapon killed two civilians. "Odessa was attacked again by enemy kamikaze drones," said the Ukrainian...
Russian authorities acknowledged a "significant" influx of cars trying to cross from Russia into Georgia on Saturday, days after Moscow announced partial mobilisation. "There is a significant congestion of private vehicles... around 2,300" waiting to...
Russian authorities on Saturday detained more than 700 people at protests against partial mobilisation ordered this week by President Vladimir Putin, according to independent monitoring group OVD-Info. The police monitoring group counted at least 707...
Updated: 8:15pm Russia on Saturday toughened penalties for voluntary surrender and refusal to fight with up to 10 years imprisonment and replaced its top logistics general after a series of setbacks to its seven-month war in Ukraine. The tough new...
Experts are divided on Russian president's threat of unleashing the bomb
Young Russians are heading for the exits rather than fighting a war in Ukraine
Helsinki orders controls following a spike of Russians crossing the border
Moscow-held regions of Ukraine begin voting Friday on whether to become part of Russia, in referendums that Kyiv and its allies have condemned as an unlawful land grab. The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern...
A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said Wednesday, after blasting off on a Russian-operated flight in a rare instance of cooperation between Moscow and Washington. The Russian...
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at demonstrations across Russia against President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial mobilisation of civilians to fight in Ukraine, a police monitoring group said Wednesday. The OVD-Info monitoring...
Ten prisoners of war from countries including the United States and Britain have been transferred from Russia to Saudi Arabia as part of an exchange between Russia and Ukraine, the Saudi foreign ministry said Wednesday. The prisoners, who also hail...
President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilisation and vowed on Wednesday to use "all available means" to protect Russian territory, after Moscow-held regions of Ukraine suddenly announced annexation referendums. The votes, already...
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