Europe Russia The EU Parliament recognised Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and as a state using terrorist methods
Europe Russia A Dutch court has found three men guilty of murdering the 298 people on board flight MH17, which was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile as it flew over eastern Ukraine in 2014
Europe Russia Russian mercenary organisation Wagner Group reportedly held a series of pro-war lectures for school children at its new headquarters in St Petersburg
Europe Russia After an alleged Ukrainian drone attack at Russia’s Black Sea Fleet ships, the country will immediately suspend its implementation of a UN-brokered grain deal that has allowed the export of 9 million tons of grain from Ukraine keeping global prices at bay
Europe Russia President Putin signed a decree for Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, introducing martial law in the annexed regions and also restricting movement in eight areas bordering Ukraine
Europe Russia Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who gained international attention for her on-air war protest, reportedly escaped house arrest
Europe Russia Moscow will not distribute passports to Russians mobilised by the army, a government information portal said, as fears of travel restrictions grow and tens of thousands flee the country
Europe Russia Samsung could resume smartphone sales in Russia next month after a six-month suspension from March 2022; the company has made no official announcement on the matter and stated that nothing has been decided yet
Europe Russia Thousands of people lined the streets of Moscow to pay their respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev before his funeral on Saturday; Putin did not attend either the ceremony or the burial
Europe Russia President Vladimir Putin reportedly signed a decree to increase the size of the Russian armed forces from 1,9 million to 2,04 million, increasing the size of the Russian armed forces by 137.000
Europe Russia Former Russian President Medvedev issued a veiled threat to Ukraine's western allies, who accused Russia of creating the risk of a nuclear catastrophe by stationing forces around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant
Europe Russia The country has banned investors from so-called hostile countries from selling shares in energy projects and key banks until the end of the year, intensifying pressure in the sanctions clash with the West
Europe Russia "We have been informed that more than 75.000 Russians have been killed or wounded, which is huge," Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic House representative who had previously attended a secret US government briefing, told CNN