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Dozens of Russian aircraft were intercepted in Estonia, it has tonight emerged, and Royal Air Force (RAF) has been praised for its bid to safeguard European airspace

Mysterious callers and messages coaxed women and men into trying to burn down the draft centres after scammers persuaded them younger relatives would die if they refused

Marina Butina, 34, was once imprisoned in the US after being charged with "conspiring to work for a foreign government", but has turned her targets from espionage to the Barbie childrens' toy because she believes it promotes "LGBT values"

The animation, posted on the official page of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Telegram channel, says: "The year of retribution continues. Dates are subject to change. And the result remains - the pain and tragedy of the occupiers"

Russian Zhanna Samsonova had been living in South-East Asia and eating an exclusively raw vegan diet consisting of "fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices" for the past five years

Residents and employees wailed as explosions tore apart several floors of a major skyscraper in the centre of Moscow today - in an attack which Russian officials blamed on Ukraine

An explosion rocked the centre of the Russian city of Taganrog near the border with Ukraine this morning, injuring several people, state media has reported

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was seen shaking hands with the Ambassador of the Central African Republic during the Russia-Africa summit, which reportedly took place at a hotel in St. Petersburg

Footage shows the helicopter blades still spinning for a few seconds after the rocket rips through the body of the aircraft causing a thick plume of smoke before it falls through the sky in Ukraine

The Russian fighter jet launched the flares at an unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria - the sixth reported incident this month as fears of escalation between the USA and Russia mount

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Russia must stop holding global food supplies 'hostage' after the Kremlin pulled out of a wartime export deal allowing safe shipment of grain from Ukraine

A pro-Vladimir Putin TV pundit in Russia, Vladimir Solovyov, said that a high speed underwater kamikaze drone should be tested by the UK causing a nuclear tidal wave

A Russian fighter jet damaged an American MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over Syria on July 23 when it fired flares at it, knocking out one of its propellers, according to an Air Force official

Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko sat down this weekend to discuss the exiled Wagner Company - who are staying in Belarus after trying to topple Putin's military

The high-rise building was set ablaze in the Russian capital after drone attacks suspected to have been orchestrated by Ukraine targeted Russian Defence Ministry facilities

Russian president Vladimir Putin has started two-day talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko as the leaders toured St Petersburg

The attack in Crimea, blamed on Ukraine by Russian officials, triggered a massive explosion and led to the evacuation of civilians in a three-mile radius

Igor Girkin, an extreme nationalist militia leader turned blogger, was arrested at his Moscow flat and detained for two months on extremism charges

Mika Shabasova, 22, reportedly died 10 minutes after she was administered local anaesthetic for the procedure at a beautician's "home surgery" in Makhachkala, Russia

A long-awaited study of the future for UK defence notes escalating threats from Moscow while China also poses a long-term challenge along with North Korea and Iran

The CEO of a Netherlands-based tech firm who managed Mali's .ML domain name found millions of emails meant to go to the US military's .MIL address - and from today the Russian-backed military government in Mali will have access to misdirected messages

The Wagner Group are set to be used to take an area of land know as the Suwalki Corridor between Poland and Lithuania, amid fears the countries face invasion, claims a top Putin loyalist

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Putin’s security council, hit back at the former UK prime minister’s criticisms of Alliance leaders in failing to fast-track Ukraine's membership

The explosion rung out at the Ural Electrochemical Combine [UEIP] in Russia and killed one male worker, 65, in the blast with the plant reassuring locals that radiation hadn't leaked outside of the plant

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE Doctors in Russia extracted a 15cm worm which had burrowed itself in a man's forehead, causing him horrific pain, and have now bizarrely put it on display