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In a surprise development, Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow to 'avoid shedding Russian blood'

Oleg Ignatov is the senior Russia analyst at the International Crisis Group, an independent organisation that works to prevent wars

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is Wagner Group chief, will move to Belarus under the agreement following his dramatic decision to call off the coup in Russia to avoid "shedding Russian blood"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is chef of Wagner Group, says he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow to avoid shedding Russian blood - in a dramatic U-turn following today's tense showdowns

Vladimir Putin's whereabouts were not known when trucks full of Wagner mercenaries smashing through barricades which had been hoped to slow their march on Moscow

Dr Colin Alexander, who is an expert in political communications from Nottingham Trent University, has offered tonight a commentary on the ongoing situation in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation on Saturday morning after Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops reached a key Russian city

Ther mercenary group's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has vowed revenge after accusing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering an attack on Bakhmut training camp

The outspoken head of a group of vicious Russian mercenaries says Moscow's "evil" leadership must be stopped, following an attack on his troops which left several dead

Russia and Australia are caught in a bitter, multi-million pound court row over the country's attempt to block the Kremlin's new embassy which has reportedly led to a diplomat squatting on the site in protest

The 25-year-old model and influencer underwent rhinoplasty surgery at a clinic in Moscow but she is now in a coma after the procedure did not go to plan

Royal Air Force Typhoons were scrambled to intercept three Russian Air Force jets that were not complying with international norms this afternoon and were flying close to NATO airspace

Lilia Chanysheva, who was in charge of one of Alexei Navalny's regional offices, has been found guilty of a number of offences including founding a rights-violating organisation in Russia

A tiger shark that killed a 23-year-old Russian tourist and may have killed twice more last year has been embalmed and is being prepared for an exhibition at a museum in Egypt, according to local media

Michael Travis Leake has been detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of selling mephedrone and faces charges which carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison - there is suspicion Russia is arresting Americans under any pretext amid the Ukraine war

The Kakhovka dam ruptured on Tuesday leaving thousands of people without normal access to drinking water. A local rescuer said floodwater may have also been contaminated with corpses from cemeteries

Military analysts disputed the Russian defence ministry's footage, saying it appeared to show them blasting farm vehicles with a missile from a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter

Pro-Moscow sources have released footage of what they claim shows a crack in an ammonia pipeline, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, triggering a scare poisonous gas might be being released

US intelligence is reportedly leaning towards Russia being responsible for a major dam disaster in a region in Ukraine on the front line of its war with Russian invaders

Russian saboteurs are prime suspects for blowing up Ukrainian Kakhovka dam, triggering massive floods, and forcing thousands to flee for their lives, but Moscow may also be planning to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Russian saboteurs are prime suspects for blowing up a Ukrainian dam, triggering massive floods, and forcing thousands to flee for their lives, while also risking Europe’s largest nuclear plant

Ex-FBI agent Robert Hanssen was described as one of the most damaging spies in American history after he sold nuclear secrets and highly classified material to the Soviet Union and later Russia

Monika Nürnberg, 79, boarded a Turkish Airlines flight from Antalya Airport in Turkey to Moscow, while trying to get back to her home to Bavaria in southern Germany

Russia's forces said Ukraine was making a major effort to punch through defensive lines in southeast Ukraine, but Kyiv didn't confirm the attacks and later said it was not true

Oleksandr Zinchenko returned to Ukraine for the first time since Russia's invasion, with the Arsenal star and ex-Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko visiting a school that had been bombed