The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

The Russian ruble slumped on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar since March 2022, a day after Moscow fired a hypersonic missile on Ukraine and Washington sanctioned a key Russian bank.

The EU’s foreign policy chief says the strike is meant as a warning to both Europe and the US

Ukrainian president says attack on Dnipro ‘a clear and severe escalation’ while Putin says Moscow ‘had the right’ to strike. What we know on day 1,003

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a "global" war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries.

UN secretary general António Guterres’s spokesperson says Russia’s use of a new ballistic missile is ‘yet another … worrying development’. This blog is now closed

For Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump’s win couldn’t come soon enough. Putin may reportedly accept a deal where Moscow gains significant territory in Ukraine (about the size of the US state of Virginia) and Ukraine remains neutral and forgets about any plans to join Nato or the EU.

Firing missiles into Russia will only lead to more hardship for the people of Ukraine, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

A day after Kyiv fires the Anglo-French missiles into Russia, Moscow hits Ukraine with an ICBM, reports say.

In the final weeks of his presidency, Joe Biden, has agreed to give Ukraine a further hand in shaping the land war against the Russians. On October 17, he granted permission for Ukraine’s armed forces to use the long-range Atacms missiles against targets in Russia, a move that prompted the…