Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday to annex four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham.
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The pipeline incidents “are the result of a deliberate act,” the EU’s top diplomat said
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Energy giant Gazprom announced Friday that construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, set to double natural gas supplies from Russia to Germany by bypassing Ukraine, has been completed.
The identity of the attacker and the motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, were not clear.
The legal changes introduce the concepts of “mobilization, martial law and wartime” to the Russian Criminal Code for the first time.
The EU must take Vladimir Putin's threats he could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine seriously, the bloc's foreign policy chief has said.
The moves followed months of conflicting signals from Moscow and separatist officials about the referendums that reflected the shifts on the battlefield.
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has defended Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, saying Russia's leader was "pushed" into the conflict.
Russian-backed officials in four occupied regions of Ukraine are holding self-styled referendums on joining Russia.
Ukraine's recent rout of Russian forces left the Kremlin with no good options
Russian president also warned West not to intervene
World leaders have reacted to Vladimir Putin’s chilling speech announcing the partial mobilisation of troops in Russia.
The Russian president raised the threat of a nuclear response in the Ukraine conflict and ordered reservists to mobilize, as Moscow seeks to buttress its army’s flagging manpower and regain the offensive.
Donetsk’s civic chamber urged the head of the republic to hold a referendum on joining Russia soon, following Lugansk’s lead
Another of Vladimir Putin’s top allies has turned up dead, with the editor-in-chief of his favourite paper “suddenly” falling ill on a business trip
Liz Truss will inevitably face failure and disgrace, Dmitry Medvedev believes
Gorbachev was granted a public send-off but denied full state honours
The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
He had not meant the Soviet Union to die like that.