A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets from next month, the Russian government said on Thursday.

Russia has launched 574 Shahed-type drones and 40 missiles at Ukraine overnight. Drones came from the directions of Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Crimea. Missiles came from LIpetsk, Voronezh, Saratov, the Black Sea area and Crimea.

Moscow has resisted a Putin-Zelensky summit and security guarantees for Ukraine. Trump’s claims that the Kremlin’s position has changed has left analysts puzzled.

NATO aircraft scrambled from Romania following a large-scale Russian attack on across Ukraine overnight, including in the Odesa region near Danube River border with allied nation.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War.

India and Russia are seeking to increase their annual trade volume by nearly 50 per cent per cent over the next five years, setting an ambitious target of $100 billion, Reuters reported. Speaking at the India-Russia Business Forum in Moscow on Wednesday (20 August),

Trump is celebrating his White House summit as significant progress toward peace in Ukraine. Russia is celebrating something else.

Russian foreign minister suggests China should join in ensuring Ukraine’s security guarantees, Russian news agency says

Moscow is preparing to raise taxes and cut spending as it tries to maintain high defence expenditure with Russia's economy creaking under the weight of financing the more than three-year war in Ukraine,