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A new drone attack on Moscow forced a temporary shutdown of all three major airports serving the city, Russian state media reported

Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian drone over central Moscow early Friday and some fragments fell on an exposition center, they said.

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu arrived in Russia on Monday to attend the Moscow Conference on International Security, and has plans to visit the allied tyranny of Belarus during his week-long trip.

Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary airport closure.

Russia accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the aircraft fall near the Defense Ministry.

Moscow police told Russian state media on Tuesday they have arrested a man who tried to set the tomb of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on fire with a Molotov cocktail.

Cluster bombs promised to Ukraine by President Joe Biden have arrived less than a week after they were first publicly flagged for delivery, the Pentagon said Thursday.

Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claims he struck a deal with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop the group’s march on Moscow.

The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to surrender amid claims of a coup attempt against the Kremlin and warnings that his forces are marching on Moscow.

“Armed rebellion” against Moscow is treason and betrayal which Putin will “react harshly” to with “inevitable punishment”, he said.

A frustrated and powerless United Nations complained Monday that Moscow is allegedly denying its aid workers access to Russian-occupied areas affected by the recent Kakhova hydroelectric dam collapse in southern Ukraine.

Speaking at a splashy award ceremony at the Kremlin on Monday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin invoked the National Day holiday and appealed to his subjects’ sense of “patriotism” during a “difficult time.”

Musician Travis Michael Leake, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Moscow on charges of running a drug trafficking ring “involving young people.”

Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.

Russian capital hit by a wave of drones Tuesday, prompting the Kremlin to complain — apparently without irony — of a “terrorist attack”.

The United States has launched a social media campaign aimed at recruiting spies from Russia, reports on Monday have suggested.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan strongman President Yoweri Museveni and a general in the Ugandan Army, said on Thursday that his country would send troops to defend Moscow if the Western world goes to war against Russia.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping emphasized on Monday that his visit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, charged with human rights crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC) less than a week ago, is intended to promote “friendship, cooperation, and peace,” positioning China as a mediator in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Chinese Communist Party supremo Xi Jinping landed in Moscow on Monday afternoon, kicking off days of talks on Russia’s Ukraine War.

Viktor Bout, a former Russian arms dealer who was released from prison in the U.S. in a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner in December, unveiled an exhibition of his artworks at a Moscow gallery on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Günther Groissböck was about to walk onstage at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre for the first act of a new “Lohengrin” production last winter when his wife, Isabel, texted that she and their 12-year-old daughter were about to

The engine on a flight from Thailand to Moscow went up in flames while trying to takeoff a runway on Saturday.

Moscow has slammed suggestions that the West should send fighter jets to Ukraine, labelling the idea that such a transfer of weapons might not escalate tensions “absurd”.

A Milan prosecutor has dropped an investigation claiming that Matteo Salvini’s League engaged in corrupt dealings with Russia. 

Police in Moscow arrested four people on Tuesday for attending a spontaneous memorial to the Ukrainian civilians killed by a Russian missile strike on their apartment building in Dnipro Sunday. 

The toll from a devastating strike was expected to rise past 40 as rescuers searched the rubble for 25 people still missing.

Military aid due to be sent from Western nations to Ukraine will only “prolong the suffering” of the country, Russia has warned.

The Stroitrakt shopping mall in Balashikha, a suburb of Moscow, caught fire on Monday morning. More than 100,000 square feet of the mall was damaged in the blaze, and at least one person was injured, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Hunter Biden reached a $40 million real estate deal in 2012 with Russian billionaire and wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yelena Baturina, while President Joe Biden was vice president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were both allegedly involved in car accidents over the past 24 hours.

A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church ridiculed the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) condemnation of the war on Ukraine, asserting that the pronouncement was equivalent to similar statements by McDonald’s or Starbucks.

67-year old Ravil Maganov, vice-president of Russia’s second-largest oil company Lukoil, reportedly died on Thursday morning after falling out of a sixth-floor hospital window in Moscow.

China’s state-run Global Times salivated over Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day address on Monday, praising Putin’s “calm, restrained” demeanor as a firm rebuke to Western pressure against his invasion of Ukraine – but also sensing that Putin was “leaving some room for negotiation” by delivering a somnolent speech when something more fiery had been anticipated.

The Ministry of Defence demanded earlier this week that YouTube remove footage of a Russian prankster prank calling their Defence Secretary.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted Thursday that if the G20 allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend its next meeting in Indonesia it would be a “step too far,” accusing Moscow of carrying out “war crimes.”