The Kremlin is seeking to hold referendums for captured Ukrainian territories to join Russia in September, Bloombergreported Thursday, corroborating previous reporting on the unconfirmed absorption plans.

The move would likely ignite further ire from Kyiv’s Western allies, which do not recognize Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and have already hi

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Russia and Ukraine still have a chance to resume peace talks, the Kremlinsaid Thursday, contradicting earlier comments by Moscow’s top diplomat.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said negotiations with Kyiv were still possible one day after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said such talks “make no sense” nearly five months into Russia’s invasion of its

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Russian search engines will be required to inform Wikipedia users that the online encyclopedia spreads “fake news” about the country’s invasion of Ukraine, the state communications regulator Rozkomnadozsaid Wednesday.

Roskomnadzor demanded in May that Wikipedia delete “unreliable information” about what Moscow refers to as its “special military oper

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When Russia was accused of striking the center of Vinnytsia, a Ukrainian city far from the frontlines, last Thursday, Moscow’s version of events rang familiar.

"On July 14, Kalibr (cruise) missiles were launched at the House of Officers in Vinnytsia," Russia's Defense Ministrysaid of the strikes that have killed at least 25 civilians, including

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Russia on Thursday resumed critical gas supplies to Europe through Germany, reopening the Nord Stream gas pipeline after 10 days, but uncertainty lingered whether the continent could avert an energy crisis this winter.

"It's working," a Nord Stream spokesman said, without specifying the amount of gas being delivered. 

The German government had

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A Moscow court has fined The New Times, an independent news website, a total of 790,000 rubles (more than $14,000) for publishing “fake” information about the war in Ukraine, Interfax reported on Wednesday. 

Publishing information contradicting Moscow’s official narrative of its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation,” is

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