The European Union and Britain are ramping up pressure on Russia over its war on Ukraine. The EU has introduced new sanctions to deprive Moscow of energy revenue through a lower oil price cap and a ban on transactions with Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday predicted the Russian economy would withstand the European Union's latest sanctions package and said Moscow would intensify its strikes against Ukraine.

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.

A powerful series of undersea quakes, including a 7.4 magnitude tremor, struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday, triggering tsunami warnings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he wants a meeting with Russia next week to push forward ceasefire talks.

"The suitcase was found to contain an American Colt Commander, .45 caliber with three empty magazines," Russian officials said.

WARPED Russian state TV has shown off mad Vladimir Putin’s “drone death factory” packed with kamikaze killing machines. The propaganda report came conveniently as Ukraine

The Russian economy is said to be facing recession as the Kremlin tries to "disguise and dismiss" the impact of sanctions. Russia's Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, stated at the St.