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A Russian military delegation led by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is due to visit North Korea this week, joining a Chinese group as the first such public visitors to the country since the start of the pandemic. Russia's Defence…

Russia has rebuffed a call by U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres for it to rejoin the Black Sea grain export deal saying it is impossible for Moscow to be a part of the deal until an agreement related to its interests is honoured.…

A Russian air attack on Ukraine's Odesa city early on Sunday has killed one person, injured 19 others and badly damaged a Russian-linked Orthodox cathedral. "Odesa: another night attack of the monsters," Oleh Kiper, governor of southern…

Four people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday after a hot water pipe burst at a shopping mall in western Moscow. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said some of those injured had suffered burns, and that emergency services were working on the…

President Vladimir Putin has warned Poland that any aggression against Russia's neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia. Putin accused Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union. He…

The United States has imposed Russia-related sanctions against nearly 120 people and entities aimed at blocking Moscow's access to electronics and other goods that aid its war against Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury and State departments…

Russia has launched a massive air attack on the Ukrainian port of Odesa for a second night in row, officials have said. The attacks on Odesa, one of Ukraine's main ports for exporting grain, followed a pledge of retaliation by Russia…

The Black Sea grain deal that has allowed the safe export of grain from Ukraine for the past year will expire at the end of Monday if Russia does not agree to extend the agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. The last ship…

President Vladimir Putin says Russia has a "sufficient stockpile" of cluster bombs and reserved the right to use them if such munitions were deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine. "I want to note that in the Russian Federation there…

Russia's air defence forces and fleet in the Black Sea intercepted nine Ukrainian drones over the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Sunday, according to a Moscow-installed official. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of…