The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

After the mysterious death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin is urging mercenaries to sign contracts and swear allegiance to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Kazakhstan, part of his efforts to cement ties with the ex-Soviet neighbor and major economic partner in the midst of tensions with the West over Ukraine

As the war enters its 624th day, these are the main developments.

A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow’s side in the war

Russia has been sanctioned by the IOC for actions taken as part of the invasion of Ukraine. Officials in Moscow say Israel is being treated differently by the IOC as fighting continues in Gaza.

Russia has pulled out of an important cold war-era treaty which limited categories of conventional military equipment that Nato and the then-Warsaw Pact could deploy. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was intended to use the warming of relations between east and west to minimise the…

Numerous attacks have targeted Moscow-installed officials in the Ukrainian regions to which Russia lays claim.

A senior Chinese military official is visiting Moscow and is hailing strong ties between the countries during a trip that underlined growing cooperation between them

Diplomacy is not doing well in the latest swirl of international crisis. The shells and rockets fall on Gaza, despite pleas for a “humanitarian pause” to let aid in for stricken families. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin this week officially ditches the nuclear test ban and conventional forces treaties.

NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact

The Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe is aimed at preventing the massing of forces at or near mutual borders