All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

"The hardest thing is that her parents died, dad and mum," Russia's Belgorod governor said.

The bloc’s secretary general says Kiev will not have to go through the Membership Action Plan, unlike other candidates.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join Nato, the military alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg says.

Outgunned, outmanned and facing a deeply entrenched enemy, Ukrainian troops are attempting one of the most daunting operations a military can undertake.

Washington has approved the move despite knowing the risk to civilians, the US national security adviser has said

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin - who led a short-lived armed rebellion in Russia last month - is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says.

Russia’s oligarchs are laying low – either in hiding or behind bars in secret prisons – as the hunt for sympathisers of a failed coup picks up.

Attempts to grab the reins of companies will be a test of his power

Allies will offer arms, intelligence and aid for years to come—but not yet NATO membership

The mercenary leader planned to capture Russia’s military leadership as part of the mutiny, Western officials said, and he accelerated his plans after the domestic intelligence agency became aware of the plot.

Attention in the Ukrainian capital has been fixed squarely on the mutiny of the Wagner Group, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its consequences for Vladimir Putin and the conduct of the war in Ukraine.

New details surrounding the dramatic march on Russia have revealed how Vladimir Putin scrambled to extinguish the largest challenge to his leadership in years.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin triggered a crisis in Russia on Saturday with an armed rebellion headed to Moscow. But by the following day, the 62-year-old mercenary leader appeared to have played all of his cards and now faces a negotiated exile in Belarus along with some of his troops.  

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, was cheered after ending an insurrection attempt in Russia.
 

Founder of Wagner paramilitary group says he is heading for Moscow to oust the army’s leadership

 

President intervenes after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s paramilitary group seizes city of Rostov in most serious challenge to Putin since he took power

The attack did not result in any injuries, the peninsula’s governor has said

Newsweek reached out to NATO for comment via its online press form.

The French leader says he wants Kiev’s operation to be as “victorious as possible”