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Ukraine's top presidential advisor for children's rights and rehabilitation, Daria Herasymchuk, said on Tuesday that out of the 16,000 children abducted, only 125 had been returned to Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has compared an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Vladimir Putin to toilet paper in a tweet

The court said in a statement that Vladimir Putin "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"

The fire ravaged the border service of the Russian FSB, reports said, with footage and images shared on social media showing huge plumes of thick, acrid smoke piling into the air above Rostov

Sergei Zhirnov, a former KGB colleague of Vladimir Putin, has claimed that body doubles are being employed at key events after he was seen gesticulating fervently and repeatedly touched his nose

Two Russian Su-27 Flanker jets downed an unmanned US Reaper drone operating over the Black Sea - officials from both countries have conflicting accounts of the collision

Footage shows the brawl on board a Fly Dubai flight from Yekaterinburg, Russia, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, with cabin crew left helpless as punches fly

The MQ9 Reaper drone was hoovering up information on Moscow’s forces in the east of Ukraine and off the coast when the Russian pilots are said to have dumped fuel on it in mid-air

Tensions between the Russian ministry of defence and the rebel Wagner group over the city of Bakhmut have reached to “boiling point” as some 520 Russian troops were reported killed in Bakhmut in one day’s fighting

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wanted an £11bn boost to take account of the war in Ukraine and the rising threat posed by China, but has been forced to make do with far less

Vladimir Putin is a black belt in judo and was was honorary president of the International Judo Federation before being removed from his position in March due to the invasion of Ukraine

The former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili claims he is now close to death after being poisoned in jail. He is being denied treatment abroad, but Georgian authorities say he is being given the care he needs

Thermite munitions - which have been used previously during the war in Ukraine - are particularly deadly because they burn rather than explode, reaching temperatures exceeding 2,400C that can easily sear through steel

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who's in-charge of the shadowy Wagner Group militia, has previously been accused of waiting for the "right moment" to turn on Russia and leave the battle, which it's been instrumental in

Masha Moskaleva sketched a woman ­defiantly shielding her child from Vladimir Putin's missiles - and the picture also featured the Ukrainian flag with 'Glory to Ukraine' written on it

Ukraine-born Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, switched cars seven times and navigated her route to freedom using the stars during her escape from Russia after she interrupted a live TV broadcast to call out Vladimir Putin

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian mercenary group Wagner and Vladimir Putin's previous chef, has been cut off from secure government phones

A Russian billionaire known as the 'Scarface oligarch' and for selling Prince Harry and Meghan Markle their Montecito home has died from a 'serious illness' in Moscow

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned "what happens in Europe today can happen in Asia tomorrow" suggesting that Beijing could be watching the Russia-Ukraine war closely to see how a similar invasion of Taiwan could work

A football hooligan known for his association with Hibernian FC in Edinburgh has apparently gone AWOL in Ukraine. Robert Grady joined the Ukrainian forced last year

Dmitry Ivanov, known as a defiant anti-war student, gave a statement in court telling Vladimir Putin that "tens of millions oppose you and daylight will come to Russia" before being jailed

Andy Murray expects Wimbledon to allow Russian and Belarusian players to compete at this year's tournament after they were banned last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The footage begins by showing Ukrainian soldiers emerging from a shallow trench and making their way across a battlefield before they blow up the area and capture the Russians

Starting from the first day of March, Rosreestr has stopped publishing data on property owners in the Unified State Register.

One Russian soldier is seeing raised his middle finger, before he reaches for his rifle. The drone then flies up and hovers over the trench as they panic and drop for cover during fighting in Ukraine