The Latest Breaking News from Dmitry Peskov

Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes the announcement hours after Russia declares annexation of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has called the leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines "unprecedented sabotage" and "an act of international terrorism" with Russia and the West making veiled accusations

Moscow will hold a celebratory concert in Red Square on Friday, as West says it will not recognise annexation

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia of a ‘very harsh’ response if Moscow goes ahead with annexations

Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged

Russian media said despot Vladimir Putin will sign four accession treaties, which will annexe parts of Ukraine currently held by the Kremlin's troops

The Kremlin on Wednesday said claims that Russia was somehow behind a possible attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were stupid, adding that the United States had opposed the pipelines and its companies had made big profits supplying gas to Europe.

The so-called “partial mobilization” announced by Vladimir Putin last week has changed the character of the Ukraine war for Russians in a matter of days. And for all the ensuing scenes of disarray and unrest within Russia, the mobilization’s impact will soon change the character of the war for Ukrainians,…

Kremlin-orchestrated referendums that are expected to serve as a pretext for Moscow to annex Russian-held regions of Ukraine concluded Tuesday as the preordained outcome of the votes heightened tension between Russia and the West. Moscow-backed officials in the four occupied regions in southern and eastern Ukraine said polls closed Tuesday…