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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington

Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster

The ship was unused at the time it had sunk and was initially planned to be used as a restaurant but was put on the market for around £372,000 or 35 million rubles.

Vladimir Putin's top security aide, Nikolai Patrushev, has insisted that the dictator is ready to destroy the West if there are any attempts to try to stop Russia's war in Ukraine

A firm decision has yet to be made by the IOC on the participation of Russian athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics, amid Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine

The Ukrainian drone was just 127 miles from Moscow before it was sent crashing into some buildings with Russians claiming it left three people injured, including a 16-year-old girl

Superyacht Phi was seized last year but it is now back in London after being spotted docked in Canary Wharf after restrictions were placed on Russians following the illegal invasion of Ukraine

Farkhad Akhmedov, an oligarch and ex-senator, and Iosif Prigozhin, a well-known music producer, back Vladimir Putin publicly - but in a leaked phone call they appeared to mock the Russian president

The Russian president said that the escalation has come in response to western countries including Britain increasing their supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine

Russia's Federal Security Service had orders "from the very top" of Putin's government to take Ukrainian citizens and march them to their deaths in newly released emails

Katerina Tikhonova, who heads the Innopraktika Institute in Moscow, says research shows “patriotism” is distinctly lacking among a generation losing its men to Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine

Russian tennis star Anastasia Potapova received an official warning from the WTA Tour after being pictured arriving for an Indian Wells match wearing a Spartak Moscow football shirt

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast and Vladimir Putin's bedfellow, Alina Kabaeva, 39, has been moved from Lugano in Switzerland to a forest hideaway in the depths of northern Russia

Russian social media is ablaze with rumours that Vladimir Putin uses multiple body doubles after Ukrainian officials questioned whether his visit to Mariupol in Ukraine was performed by a doppelgänger.

Maxim Lyutyi, 43, who is believed to be involved in a sect, wanted to raise the newborn on prana-eating - a diet in which people go without food and water for a long time and ‘feed on the sun’

A US B-52 nuke bomber was flanked by six NATO fighters in dramatic footage of a V-formation. Spanish F-18s, Romanian F-16s and Italian typhoons joined the display

Russia has pummelled Ukraine just hours after Japan's prime minister left Kyiv following a visit to the capital to show the country support while Vladimir Putin met with China's leader Xi Jinping

Roman Fedortsov, who works on a trawler in Murmansk in the northwest part of Russia, spends his time uncovering creatures from the deep and sharing his bizarre catch with his followers on Instagram

Russia's war in Ukraine recently passed its one year anniversary, having displaced millions, and left tens of thousands dead with horror stories still regularly emerging from the fighting

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg outlined plans to demand more money from the coalition's 30 members - even though the vast majority of countries do not even meet the current 2% benchmark

Dmitry Frolov has been dubbed the 'Russian Tinder Swindler' after claims emerged that he scammed women out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has now been arrested

A Russian fighter jet apparently intercepted two US nuclear bombers only days after an American drone was downed in the Black Sea - it is claimed a Sukhoi Su-35 fighter was scrambled to 'escort' US Air Force B-52H bombers

Kyiv official Anton Gerashchenko analysed TV footage of Vladimir Putin meeting residents of a reconstructed apartment block in Mariupol, and wondered if it was a body double because he had a different chin

Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"