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A 50-year-old Russian real estate magnate has died under mysterious circumstances after suffering fatal head injuries after a suspicious fall.

Russia's defense ministry said that the drones used to attack ships were found to be equipped with Canadian-made navigation.

RIA news agency said the plane was a fighter jet and crashed during a training flight from a military airfield.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an "act of terrorism".

An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, called the explosion a "beginning" - but did not directly claim Ukrainian responsibility.

The bombers, capable of carrying cruise missiles and strategic nuclear weapons, have been active in the Ukrainian war since Moscow invaded in February.

In his speech, Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready for peace talks with Russia but with a different Russian president.

Sanctioning Russia is no longer enough for the US, which has now switched to sabotage, the president claimed

The documents are now to be verified by the Russian Constitutional Court and ratified by parliament

The decrees mark another step in the former Ukrainian regions joining Russia

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.

The pipeline incidents “are the result of a deliberate act,” the EU’s top diplomat said

'This is not an earthquake,' says seismologist after dual blasts

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.