Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
US envoys to visit Moscow and Dublin on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectivelyRussia and Ukraine have agreed to the “largest prisoner exchange” of the war at their first US-brokered talks since February but made lit…
Read MoreWith no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy resultsThe Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia.But a 90-minute p…
Read MorePeople in Russian-occupied city facing severe shortages of food, water and electricity, with some reportedly surviving on weedsThe White House has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, where a …
Read MoreRussia frees Stephen Hubbard after US request while Steve Witkoff praises Putin, wanted by ICC as war criminal, as a ‘humanitarian’Vladimir Putin ordered the release of an American man from a Russian jail as he met Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in…
Read MoreFounder of influential Rybar blog detained after warnings of attempts to destabilise Balkan country, officials sayA leading pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger with reported ties to Russia’s intelligence services has been arrested in Montenegro, after…
Read MorePresident’s United Russia party faces no meaningful opposition after liberal anti-war party barred from ballotRussians are going to the polls to elect a new State Duma in a tightly controlled vote stripped of meaningful competition and with little doub…
Read MorePart of Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand sent to ‘spiritually strengthen’ soldiersThe Russian Orthodox church has sent a fragment of a medieval warrior prince’s remains to troops fighting in Ukraine, saying the relic would “spiritually strengthen” soldiers …
Read MoreConnection across Tumen River is further sign of closer ties between the two countries since start of war in UkraineRussia and North Korea have opened the first road bridge across their shared border, in the latest sign of the rapidly deepening ties be…
Read MoreGovernments now moving faster to impose costs on Moscow for its increasing attacks over support for UkraineRussia’s suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled…
Read MoreFriends close to Margarita Reutt are shocked she could allegedly plant bomb that killed Ukrainian defector Robert Shageev, while others recall a stubborn grit to see any plan throughIt was just after dawn in Sevastopol when a powerful explosion tore th…
Read MoreAndrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’Europe live – latest updatesThe chief economist at Russia’s second-largest bank has been fired after a series of critical comments about the state of…
Read MoreRussia is losing 30,000 casualties a month, and the country’s regions are under pressure to feed the ‘meat-grinder’. Experts say it may not be enoughIn kitchens and Telegram chats across Russia, the same question is being asked with growing frequency: …
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