The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Ukraine’s president makes comments during address to other European leaders

The "two Council members that are blocking us from taking action are enabling North Korea," U.S. ambassador to UN says.

In a written post, Russian rebel Marina Ovsyannikova said that she was freeing herself from the two-month house arrest that was imposed by a Moscow court in August

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government on Wednesday to take control of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, as the UN nuclear watchdog warned that power supply to the site was "extremely fragile". However, the boss of Ukraine's state energy agency announced he was taking over the plant,…

Talk of nuclear escalation or attacks on pipelines may be far-fetched at present, but Moscow has other levers at its disposal, says Keir Giles of Chatham House

US expresses disappointment in move that could spur an increase in oil prices, which had dropped in recent months.

European Union countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil and other new sanctions after Moscow illegally annexed four regions in Ukraine

OPEC+ agreed steep oil production cuts on Wednesday, curbing supply in an already tight market, causing one of its biggest clashes with the West as the U.S. administration called the surprise decision shortsighted.

Vladimir Putin formalises a move that Ukraine and its Western allies have condemned as a meaningless ‘sham’.