More than 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.
The White House has publicly confirmed that Russia has obtained a "troubling" emerging anti-satellite weapon but said it cannot directly cause "physical destruction" on Earth.
Russia's guided missile ship, the "Ivanovets," suffered multiple hits to its hull before it sank overnight in the harbor of Lake Donuzlav, Crimea's deepest lake, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said.
Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war candidate vying for the Russian presidency, announced he had submitted the signatures required to be listed on the presidential election ballot.
Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service has reported.
Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane to a nearby morgue.
Some of the Ukrainians had been held since 2022, including some who fought in milestone battles for Ukraine's Snake Island and the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Poland’s defence forces said an unknown object entered the country’s airspace on Friday morning from the direction of Ukraine and then vanished off radars, and that all indications pointed to it being a Russian missile.
Western officials and analysts recently warned that Russia was building up stockpiles for massive strikes during the winter, hoping to break the Ukrainians' spirit.
Finland's ascension to NATO marked a major shift in the security landscape in northern Europe and added some 1300 kilometres to the alliance's frontier with Russia.
His country's future at stake, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told United States senators that with US aid his fighters can beat back the Russian invasion.
Putin will bid for his fifth presidential term at the elections, set to take place on March 17, 2024, as he aims to solidify his continuous hold on power as head of state or prime minister for more than two decades.
Ruling in response to a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry, the court labelled what the suit called the LGBTQ+ "movement" operating in Russia as an extremist organisation and banned it.
The wife of Ukraine's top military intelligence official has been hospitalised with apparent heavy metals poisoning, according to Ukrainian and western officials.
Officials said air defences intercepted 71 of the Iranian-made drones across six regions of Ukraine – but the vast majority of the drones were intercepted in the Kyiv region.