The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Viktor Bout was freed last week from a 25-year US prison sentence in swap for basketball star Brittney Griner.

A shopping centre in the Moscow region was damaged in a major fire on Monday, emergency services said, the second such blaze in less than a week.

Russia's ambassador to Moscow said Britain's royal family had been recommended not to have any contacts with the Russian embassy in London, the Izvestia newspaper reported.

Ukrainian president holds talks with US, French and Turkish presidents amid fierce, protracted battles on eastern front.

Ukraine's top security officials have ordered punitive measures against seven senior clerics, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, part of a crackdown on a branch of the Orthodox Church with longstanding ties to Moscow.

Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the Black Sea grain export agreement on Sunday with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, as both sides seek changes that would boost their exports. Türkiye has acted as mediator alongside the United Nations in the grain deal, which opened up Ukrainian ports for exports…

Ukraine attacked occupied Melitopol in the country's southeast on Saturday evening, the Russian-installed and exiled Ukrainian authorities of the strategically located city said. The pro-Moscow authorities said a missile attack killed two people and wounded 10, while the exiled mayor said scores of "invaders" were killed. Reuters could not independently…

Any peace talks in Ukraine cannot be a fig-leaf for Russian rearmament, British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Sunday, adding that he had not seen any signs that Moscow would enter into negotiations in good faith. Cleverly said that, while Britain wanted to see peace talks "sooner rather than…