Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war.

Family ties may become strained for former South African President Jacob Zuma after his eldest daughter accused her half-sister of deceiving 17 men – half of whom are reportedly relatives – into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

A U.K. inquiry says Russian agents "carry out Putin's bidding," blaming him for a deadly 2018 attack in England using the nerve agent Novichok.

Oleg Artemyev, a cosmonaut with Russia's space agency, has been replaced on the upcoming SpaceX Crew-12 mission, Roscosmos announced.

Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the US team led by Donald Trump’s envoys, businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has failed to make any significant progress.

Putin also claimed that Zelensky’s European allies have pushed for demands that are “absolutely unacceptable."

Russia's president bears "moral responsibility" for the death of a British woman poisoned with the nerve agent, an inquiry concluded.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin risks fresh Trump row by pledging to supply ‘uninterrupted fuel’ to India - Donald Trump says he does not know what Kremlin is doing after peace talks in Moscow yield

President Vladimir Putin hailed what his commanders told him was the full Russian capture of the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine as an important victory that would help Moscow fulfil its wider war aims,