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

The drills were held after Russia again blitzed Ukrainian grain and agricultural warehouses linked to exports, so far destroying 100 tonnes of peas and 20 tonnes of barley

Tihran Ohannisian, 16, cried 'Farewell! Glory to Ukraine!' as he held a Kalashnikov close to his chest after being fatally wounded in a firefight with Russian soldiers in occupied Berdyansk

New laws set by Moscow mean reservist males who hold the highest ranks such as General can be called back to the front up to aged 70 instead of 65

Mikhail Murashko, Vladimir Putin's health minister as well as a doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, has said it is "improper" to delay childbirth for education, a career and money

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dramatically scrapped a wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia after the Crimea bridge was blown up again

Putin ally Margarita Simonyan says Tower Bridge is a legitimate target after an explosion on the Kerch bridge in Russian-occupied Crimea killed two

Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia has a "sufficient stockpile" of cluster munitions and that it would hit back against Ukraine if they are used against his country

Nearly 300 children have been kidnapped from a district in the Luhansk region and taken to Russia where they will be "zombified" and indoctrinated by propaganda, claims Ukraine

Putin’s secret service agency claimed the hits were ordered by Ukraine’s intelligence service which offered £12,700 each to kill Ksenia Sobchak and Margarita Simonyan

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been pictured sitting half-naked in his underwear inside a field tent on a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel after he went missing following his botched plot to take Russia

United States Presidential Candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that he believes the invasion of Ukraine has become a proxy war between the United States and Russia

The mutiny led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was a direct challenge to Russian leader Vladimir Putin's authority and many say has significantly weakened his position within the country

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said Yevgeny Prigozhin's war-hardened mutineers couldn't reach the "backpack nukes" from the Voronezh-45 nuclear base because the facility's door was closed

Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin led what appeared to be a failed coup attempt that was called off less than 24 hours from it starting, angering Vladimir Putin

Sergei Denisenko was seen cowering on a kitchen floor in his underwear after heavily armed Russian security forces stormed a house in Tuapse, Krasnodar region, smashing the windows

The average 6.66 per cent rate is stinging in part because the Bank of England, with the backing of Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, is hiking interest rates to curb inflation

No matter how longingly the desperate PM looks into the President’s eyes in search of a friend, Labour and Keir Starmer are far closer in outlook to the pragmatic Democrat

It is an astonishing twist after Putin called Prigozhin a backstabbing traitor and exiled him to Belarus, and it has fuelled claims the Russian regime has been hugely weakened

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British soldier Aiden Aslin spent months on 'death row' waiting to be executed after being caught by Russian forces fighting for Ukraine - but was finally saved by an unlikely figure

James Roberts was just 22 when he developed the technology for his final year project at Loughborough University after seeing a documentary about Syria

As the Prime Minister prepares for the two-day NATO summit this week, he faces mounting criticism at home over the state of Britain’s armed forces and delays to a key Defence Command Paper

Pro-Moscow sources claimed to have successfully "evacuated" one Storm Shadow missile from Ukraine as Russian weapons experts are set to dissect and analyse the weapon

Since launching a High Court case and taking political asylum in Latvia, Igor Sychev says he has been the subject of several assassination attempts and numerous death threats