Pjotr Sauer

Pjotr Sauer It was just after dawn in Sevastopol when a powerful explosion tore through a quiet square in a residential district of the Russian-occupied Crimean port city.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia's airspace is becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, as Vladimir Putin promised to step up strikes against Ukraine's energy facilities in the run-up to winter.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia's airspace is becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, as Vladimir Putin promised to step up strikes against Ukraine's energy facilities in the run-up to winter.

Governments now moving faster to impose costs on Moscow for its increasing attacks over support for Ukraine

Russia's suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled

Belarusian said to have had tourist visa issued by Italy is investigated over alleged attempt to attack Leipzig airport

Germany is urging its European partners to introduce tighter limitations on Russian citizens entering the EU on tourist visas, after recent sabotage attacks which Berlin has blamed on Moscow

Russia and North Korea have opened the first road bridge across their shared border , in the latest sign of the rapidly deepening ties between the two countries since the start of the war in Ukraine.

The Russian Orthodox church has sent a fragment of a medieval warrior prince's remains to troops fighting in Ukraine, saying the relic would “spiritually strengthen” soldiers and help them achieve victory.

Part of Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand sent to ‘spiritually strengthen’ soldiers