Russia’s Oreshnik missile is a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile that Moscow says can evade air defences and strike targets across Europe at hypersonic speeds. View on euronews

Russian President Vladimir Putin is running out of time to win his war against Ukraine, amid a stalemate on the battlefield and growing troubles at home, a European intelligence chief has told CNN.

Russia has promised to provide “active support” to Cuba as the U.S. seeks to tighten its economic grip on the island’s communist government. “We reaffirm our full solidarity with Cuba,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on Thursday,

There are fears Moscow is seeking to open a new front against the West.

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Increasingly isolated president is determined to press on with Ukraine war, say well-placed sources, despite ailing economy

The bespectacled 34-year-old ambassador to Persia was known among Russian aristocrats as a Renaissance man who penned a still-popular waltz, poems and a groundbreaking play, “Woe from Wit”, which remains part of the curriculum in Russia today.