Vladimir Putin

The missile cruiser carries 16 P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles as well as an array of anti-submarine and mine-torpedo weapons

Nikita Mazepin, 23, was sacked by the Haas Formula One team last month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian general Alexander Dvornikov, a veteran of Russia's military intervention in Syria, had been named the overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.

The death toll rose as well in the east of Ukraine, where a missile strike on Friday killed 57 people at a railway station in the city of Kramatorsk

The use of human shields is forbidden under the Geneva Conventions, the international code of humanitarian conduct during wartime.

Abramovich has recently been involved in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance expects a Russian push in "coming weeks" to try to seize the entire Donbas.

Since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine on February 24, the authorities have stepped up censorship

Macron said that he had never used the situation in Ukraine for political ends and said he would only visit Zelensky in Kyiv if it could bring results.

The head of Motoyzhyn village, her husband, and her son were killed by the Russian forces during their occupation of the village near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

Kremlin has dismissed the graphic images emerging from the town as "fakes" concocted by Ukraine.

Soldiers hand out food and medicine to desperate survivors from the back of a green military truck.

The Russians set up headquarters in Trostyanets' train station, and the surrounds are badly damaged after heavy bombardment aimed at dislodging them.

Russian troops also captured Europe's largest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia on March 4

Ukraine and Russia represent 30 percent of world wheat exports, 20 percent for corn and 75 percent for sunflower oil.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak did not confirm the incident, instead advising to follow "only the official information."

Moscow's month-long invasion on its neighbour has largely stalled, with no major recent advances

According to the Ukraine defence ministry on Friday, the seventh Russian general to lose his life was Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev

Several media reports have claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying to hide the actual numbers of Russian soldiers killed in his war against Ukraine

Biden said that NATO unity showed "Putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he intended."

Russia has been moving to "de-dollarise" its economy for years, since the introduction of Western sanctions over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

The draft resolution, seen by AFP, is supported by 88 countries and had been initially prepared by France and Mexico.

Western defense officials said following Putin's February announcement that they had not seen any significant sign of mobilization of Russia's nuclear forces

The UK has been cracking down against individuals who are deemed to be supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Abramovich was among the individuals listed under new sanctions adopted by the European Union last week.

A handful of firefighters and soldiers trawls through the smoking wreckage of a 10-story building wreckage searching for more victims.

Some 10 million people inside Ukraine have fled their homes to escape the fighting, the head of the UN refugee agency said on Sunday.

The number of rich Russians resident in Switzerland has grown in recent years.

Zelensky stressed that the future of the continent was at stake in the current war and argued that governments across the West were failing to meet the moment.

Xi and Putin symbolically sealed their close partnership when they met at the February Winter Olympics in Beijing