MOSCOW

Moscow will send Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to address the council in person on Thursday.

World leaders are meeting at the Munich Security Conference with conflict still raging almost a year after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.

A former security guard at the UK's Berlin embassy, who pleaded guilty to spying for Moscow, faces up to 14 years in prison when he is sentenced on Friday.

Moscow said on Monday its forces had shot down a Ukrainian drone close to a long-range bomber base deep inside Russia, while Ukraine said the Russians had unleashed heavy artillery barrages on its cities in the past 24 hours.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Russia to hold demonstration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has vowed to avenge the "assassination" of Darya Dugina, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's spiritual guru Alexander Dugin.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, a U.N.

The mum had reportedly left a note about taking her children away with her from this "hard, gloomy world."

One of the men involved in the murder has reportedly been arrested shortly after the businessman's death.

Britain, the US and Canada accused hacking group called APT29 for the online attacks on various organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development.

Putin has already been in power for 20 years.

Elsewhere around the globe, clusters of infection were growing as governments relaxed restrictions.

Investigators suspect that the unsupervised boys, aged 10 and seven, jumped while playing a Spider-man influenced game.

Partner suspected for beating 27-year-old to death and leaving one-year-old with her mother's corpse.

Roughly 87,000 women and girls were murdered across the world in 2017

A Ural Airlines flight was forced to crash land in a field outside Moscow airport after hitting a flock of birds.

A Russian Sukhoi jetliner with 83 passengers and crew on board lands in flames in Moscow, killing 41 persons.

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson branded a series of global cyberattacks blamed on Russia as the reckless actions of a "pariah state,"

Warning of an "unacceptably high" number of Russian spies in the U.S., the Trump administration said 60 diplomats would be expelled

May wants an EU summit in Brussels to make a strong statement against Russian President Vladimir Putin after the poisoning

Russian news agencies, controlled by the Kremlin, have denounced accusations by members of the UK government.