The Latest Breaking News from Kremlin

As the war enters its 498th day, these are the main developments.

The average global temperature hits a new mark for the second day running amid heatwaves, while Australia rental crisis intensified in June quarter

A prominent Russian investigative reporter has received a brain injury and multiple fractures when she and a lawyer accompanying her were brutally beaten by unidentified assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya

Kremlin appears to gain control of Wagner warlord’s troll farms as Patriot media operations shut down

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of planning to attack one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants

Evacuation warning issued as Kremlin warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences if there is sabotage in Zaporizhzhia

Vladimir Putin said he invited the youngster and her parents to the Kremlin after he saw her crying because she couldn't meet him during a public stunt to drum up support after the Wagner mutiny

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russian troops have placed ‘objects resembling explosives’ on roof as Russia warns of provocation from Ukraine

On Monday, U.S. and Russian diplomats visited Evan Gershkovich and Vladimir Dunaev. Gershkovich is being held in Moscow on spying charges. Dunaev, a Russian citizen, is being held in the U.S. on cybercrime charges.

Kremlin spokesman says there have been ‘certain contacts on the subject’ with the US but says any discussion will be held in secret

It's almost as if it never happened. The unrivalled master of the Kremlin for 23 years has emerged from a moment of wavering with the leader of an aborted march on Moscow now sidelined and forced abroad, Russian troops on the frontlines in Ukraine who continue to hold their own…