The Latest Breaking News from Dmitry Peskov

The Kremlin on Monday warned the United States of "consequences" and summoned its ambassador after Moscow said a Ukrainian strike with a US missile on Crimea killed four people.

State department warns such a move could destabilise the peninsula, as South Korea considers arming Ukraine

Rhetoric is ramped up as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy tells French parliament ‘Europe is no longer a continent of peace’.

The arrests began last month when a Russian deputy defense minister was detained

Leaders around the Baltic Sea have reacted warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region

By removing Sergei Shoigu and promoting key allies, Russia’s leader is shoring up the war machine he needs to justify his survival, says Samantha de Bendern of Chatham House

Yuri Kuznetsov, the second senior official arrested in the case, is accused of bribery after being found holding $1m.

President Vladimir Putin's nomination of top economic official Andrei Belousov as defence minister is a sign of the importance the Russian leader places on the war economy in gaining the upper hand in what he expects will be a long conflict against Ukraine, analysts say.

In a significant reshuffle within the Russian government, President Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrey Belousov, a civilian economist and former first deputy prime minister, as the new head of the ministry of defense, replacing longtime minister Sergei Shoigu. This move indicates a shift towards integrating economic strategies with military operations,…