The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Moscow-linked hackers ‘top of the suspects list by a mile’, says ex-MI6 boss

Russian media reports people remain trapped after explosion at Zagorsk optical-mechanical plant

Textbook apparently written in just five months is part of Kremlin’s tightening of control over historical narrative in schools

Exclusive: Government to act imminently to close loophole allowing trade with Moscow after Olena Zelenska interview with Independent TV

Japan has expressed concerns over Iran’s advancing uranium enrichment program and its suspected supplying of combat drones to Moscow for Russia’s war on Ukraine

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has chided efforts by international officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the Ukraine war

The involvement of China in talks aimed at securing a lasting peace in Ukraine have been hailed as a major diplomatic coup for hosts Saudi Arabia, and potentially significant in bringing Russia to the negotiating table.

Russia seeks to exploit situation as Kyiv’s counteroffensive concentrates on south and east of country

Two Russian missile strikes on the east Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, including on a residential building, killed at least five people and wounded 31 others, Kyiv said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are creating conditions to advance forward step-by-step and have the initiative on the battlefield, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said on Monday. Read…