Drone attacks on Putin’s residence: Moscow vows ‘non-diplomatic’ response to Kyiv
- 30-Dec-2025
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned Kyiv on Monday that the response to a failed Ukrainian drone attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence “will not be diplomatic.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reported that the “Kyiv regime” launched a massive attack overnight on December 28-29, utilizing 91 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The target […]
Russia accepts Taliban’s nominated ambassador to Moscow
- 02-Jun-2025
KABUL: Russia has officially accepted the Taliban’s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban in a move that paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the […]
Russia says it downs 59 Ukrainian drones, including two heading towards Moscow
- 18-Nov-2024
Russia’s air defence units destroyed 59 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two heading towards Moscow, Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday. Forty-five drones were destroyed over the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, the ministry said on its Telegram messaging app. In addition to the two downed over the Moscow region, drones were also destroyed over the […]
Gunmen kill more than 80 in concert attack near Moscow
- 23-Mar-2024
MOSCOW: Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at concertgoers with automatic weapons on Friday, killing at least 82 people and injuring 145 more in an attack claimed by IS. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was to perform to a […]
Navalny buried in Moscow amid thousands of defiant mourners
- 02-Mar-2024
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday, surrounded by crowds of mourners who chanted his name and blamed authorities for his death in prison. Outside the cemetery where he was buried, some supporters shouted in grief while others yelled out slogans against the Kremlin and its offensive in Ukraine. […]
Russia downs drone heading for Moscow: mayor
- 31-Aug-2023
MOSCOW: Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching Moscow, the city’s mayor said on Thursday. Air defence forces in Voskresensky district, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) from the capital, “destroyed a drone flying towards Moscow,” mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. He did not say where the drone had come from. Russia’s defence ministry said […]
Russia downs drone approaching Moscow: mayor
- 26-Aug-2023
MOSCOW: Russian air defences destroyed a drone as it approached Moscow, the city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said early on Saturday. “Tonight, air defense forces destroyed a drone on approach to Moscow in the Istrinskii district,” Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. “Preliminarily, there were no casualties or damage. Emergency services are working on the site,” he added. […]
Moscow region hit in sixth straight night of drone attacks
- 23-Aug-2023
MOSCOW: A Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged a building in a central business district, authorities said on Wednesday, in the sixth straight night of aerial attacks on Russia’s capital region. Russia and Ukraine have hit each other’s cities with barrages of drones during the conflict, now bogged down as Ukraine’s troops fight a grinding […]
Russia says it downed Ukrainian drones trying to attack Moscow
- 30-Jul-2023
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early on Sunday that had been trying to attack Moscow. Nobody was hurt and there was only minor damage to the facade of two office buildings in the Moskva-Citi business district, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. The area, several miles from the Kremlin, is […]
Three Ukrainian drones downed over Moscow: Russia
- 30-Jul-2023
MOSCOW: Three Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow early Sunday, Russia’s defence ministry said, in an attack that briefly shut an international airport. While one of the drones was shot down on the city’s outskirts, two others were “suppressed by electronic warfare” and smashed into an office complex. No one was injured. Moscow and its […]