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Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.

A U.S. military heavy lift aircraft which flew into Moscow with its transponder on has gained attention and sparked speculation.

Two sold-out shows by Ye, the rapper also known as Kanye West, set down for a stadium in Russia have been canceled by the intended hosts.

A bomb detonated at a restaurant Saturday in central Moscow killing at least three people, including the bomber, Russian state media said, citing local officials.

A 59-year-old former Italian intelligence official, described by local outlets as an “ex-007,” was arrested on Tuesday alongside another former agent in Rome for spying on behalf of Russia and leaking classified information to Moscow.

Russia is moving a significant part of its air defenses to protect a handful of prime targets, including Moscow, as Ukraine’s long-range drones hammered sites deep inside the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine struck a major Moscow oil refinery Thursday for a second time in a week, sending huge plumes of black smoke over the capital.

Moscow’s representative in Italy, Alexey Paramonov, on Wednesday lashed out against the Italian government, accusing it of blaming Russia for all the world’s problems when “the facts bear witness to the exact opposite.”

Czech police officers on Tuesday released Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of the Russian Orthodox Church without charges after he was detained over the weekend on suspicion of drug possession.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday voiced confidence of victory in Ukraine as he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II – a show that didn’t include heavy weapons for the first time in nearly two decades.

An unidentified individual detonated an explosive device near a railway station in Moscow early Tuesday morning, killing himself and a police officer. Two other people were injured in the explosion.

Senior Kremlin security official Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released for publication on Monday the world is getting very dangerous and needs to calm down, adding Russia is an oasis of sanity and does not want a global conflict.

Putin was playing a game by inviting his counterpart to Moscow, Zelensky said, making an equally facetious reciprocal invitation to Kyiv.

An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away.

Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.

A Russian court on Wednesday added two more years to the sentence of Robert Gilman, an American citizen and Marine Corps veteran accused of attacking Russian police and prison guards.

The Kremlin says talks between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff were “constructive.”

Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine’s military intelligence said Saturday, a claim that came amid a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine´s energy infrastructure.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa traveled to Moscow on Wednesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is desperate to preserve Russia’s investments in Syria after the fall of the Russian-supported dictator Bashar Assad.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Moscow, if Trump is willing to make the trip.

At least one person was killed on Sunday in an explosion at a prominent retail building in central Moscow, emergency services said.

Trial under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year´s shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani visited Moscow on Thursday, the first visit to Russia by a high-ranking official of the Syrian “interim government” since Russia-backed dictator Bashar Assad was overthrown in December.

Russia on Sunday opened a regular air link between Moscow and Pyongyang, a move reflecting increasingly close ties between the two countries.

President Donald Trump reportedly threatened to “bomb” Moscow as part of an effort to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine, according to CNN.

Putin’s Victory parade in Moscow was noticeably larger in scale than in recent years and featured Ukraine strike drones for the first time.

All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russia intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones.

American businessman turned diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow for further rapprochement talks with the Russian Federation.

One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials asserted Saturday that it was planned and organized by “the special services of an unfriendly state.”

The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin sent some “additional signals” to Donald Trump concerning Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Ukraine ceasefire talks underway, but signalling country won’t accede easily a senior Putin ally publicly rubbished the proposed terms.

U.S. diplomats arrived Moscow Thursday morning for Ukraine ceasefire talks, with possible call between Trump and Putin to follow.

Ukraine launched ‘largest drone strike ever’, a clear message to Moscow and Washington on the dawn of peace talks in Saudi Arabia.

Russia said on Monday it was expelling two British diplomats based at the embassy in Moscow over spying allegations.

Russia has reportedly freed a second American detained on drug charges, less than a week after releasing teacher Marc Fogel from three years in captivity.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusuf Sharif told Russian media on Wednesday that an agreement first proposed in 2017 to give Russia a naval base on the Red Sea coast will finally proceed, giving Moscow an opportunity to replace the base it lost in Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar Assad.