The Latest Breaking News from Sergei Shoigu

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu orders his troops to withdraw from the illegally annexed city of Kherson, but Ukrainian officials remain sceptical.

The withdrawal from the city is a major setback for Russia

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Russian participation in a U.N.-brokered Ukrainian grain export deal was to resume on Wednesday.

Russia said on Wednesday it would resume its participation in a deal freeing up grain exports from war-torn Ukraine, reversing a move that world leaders had said threatened to exacerbate global hunger. Moscow announced the sudden reversal after Türkiye and the United Nations helped keep Ukrainian grain flowing for several…

Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky tells UK parliamentary group of ‘terrorism’ threat

Russia does not need a presidential decree to formalise the completion of a partial mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine, and none will be issued, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

Vladimir Putin's 'night witches' have graduated and are ready to enter the war in Ukraine, with Joseph Stalin the last Russian leader to permit female pilots during WW2

There are good reasons why we should not discount the possibility that defeat of Russia in Ukraine might make the Kremlin’s edifice crumble.

Among the many questions asked about Russia’s disastrous war against Ukraine, one of them is posed only very rarely: can Russia survive what seems increasingly likely to be a humiliating defeat at the hands of its smaller neighbour?