The Latest Breaking News from Victory Day

Russia has carried out drone, missile and air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities through the night, before its Victory Day holiday.

Bakhmut fight will go on as mercenary chief says he does not want to ‘spoil’ celebrations

Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday, and it lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude

Russia stages its annual Victory Day parade on Red Square on Tuesday amid particularly tight security after a series of drone attacks, including on the Kremlin citadel, symbolic heart of the Russian state, that Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.

Paranoia following the drone attacks on the Kremlin and a weakened military dog the event Putin views as deeply symbolic

Head of UN’s nulear power watchdog said conditions for operating staff and families are ‘increasingly tense’

Ukraine said on Friday Russia was bringing Wagner mercenary fighters from other parts of the front line to fight in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, and that Moscow wanted to capture the city in time for Victory Day celebrations next week.

Whether the alleged drone assassination attempt on the Russian president in the Kremlin was an audacious attack by Ukraine or a clumsy attempt at a false flag operation by Moscow may never be known. But from the Kremlin’s standpoint, at least Russia now has footage of its own, demonstrating its…

President Vladimir Putin has scaled back annual celebrations as his war against Ukraine rumbles on

Some celebratory events have been cancelled over fears they could be targeted by pro-Ukrainian saboteurs

Governor of region 400 miles from border latest to cancel over ‘safety concerns’ in glaring admission of vulnerability