The Latest Breaking News from Kremlin

Lt Col Albert Karimov, 39, has become the 41st Russian colonel to die in the war in Ukraine, meaning the Kremlin's invasion force has lost roughly one colonel every two days

Colonel Shalva Museliana - who is on the Kremlin's wanted list - is accused of bribe-taking in the supply of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and speedboats to the guard’s Arctic forces

Vladimir Putin has placed the Kremlin’s strategic nuclear weapons forces on ‘high alert’, prompting fears over what could happen next

UN verifies nearly 100 child killings but says figure likely higher; Ukraine’s EU application to be assessed in June, says France

Ukraine offered to release Russian prisoners of war in exchange for the safe evacuation of the badly injured fighters trapped inside a steel mill in the ruined city of Mariupol

Moscow warned Finland on Thursday it would face consequences as it seeks to apply for NATO membership "without delay" and Ukraine said it had damaged a Russian navy logistics ship in the Black Sea, where there has been renewed fighting in recent days.

Finland ditches decades of non-alignment in plan to join Nato; UN says 1,000 bodies recovered in Kyiv area

Lucy Shtein fled Moscow in late March; now she can tell her story after her girlfriend got out the same way

Families of the men holding out inside Azovstal steel plant tell Kim Sengupta they want the world to help

Ukraine shut down a pipeline Wednesday that carries Russian natural gas to homes and industries in Western Europe, while a Kremlin-installed official in a southern region seized by Russian troops said the area will ask Moscow to annex it. The talk of annexation in Kherson - and Russia's apparent willingness…

Unclear if Kremlin will agree to annex captured Ukrainian territory or use threat to put pressure on Kyiv