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Drones shot down over Kaluga and Tver regions, bordering the Moscow region, and one in Istra district of Moscow region.

President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-battered town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and spoke to troops leading a counteroffensive against Russia, Ukraine said Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday the Kremlin declined to confirm a potential upcoming summit, which US officials expect to take place, between President Vladimir Putin and North Korean…

Russia’s Kurchatov town target of Ukrainian drone attack as air defences stop drone’s advance on Moscow, officials say.

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei…

Sergei Shoigu, Russian defence minister, has recently travelled to North Korea to try to convince them to sell ammunition, says White House

Decree published on Kremlin website obliges anyone working on behalf of the military in Ukraine to swear a formal oath of allegiance

The Russian defence ministry said Saturday that one drone was destroyed close to the border in the Belgorod region, while another was intercepted, and a separate drone headed for Moscow in the early hours of the morning was also thwarted. Read our live blog to see how all the day's…

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin says air defence systems destroyed a drone in the Istra district west of Moscow.

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Air traffic at Moscow’s Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports halted for second day in row due to drone attack.

Moscow’s mayor says Ukrainian drone shot down by air defence and debris falls on city’s Expo Center causing damage.