The fact that Moscow's payments are blocked because of sanctions is "not our problem," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, according to the Interfax news agency
In Severodonetsk, the eastern city that has been reduced to rubble after weeks of gruelling street fighting and aerial bombardments, both sides said Russia was now in full control
The loss of Severodonetsk effectively means that the entire Donbass region of eastern Ukraine is now under Russian control, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's key aims in the conflict
For weeks, calls have been voiced on Russian state television for Russia to establish a "corridor" from main Russian territory to Kaliningrad. This would, in effect, mean a Russian attack on the…
In the remaining parts of Ukraine where Russia its conducting what it calls a "military operation," the residents themselves must decide on their own future, Lavrov said
The commission proposed at the beginning of March to end imports of Russian crude oil in six months, but Budapest has steadfastly blocked the measure, leading to the ongoing stand-off
Meanwhile, in the western Russian region of Kursk, on the border with Ukraine, several buildings were attacked by the Ukrainian side, according to Russian sources
The future NATO membership of Sweden and Finland would "strengthen" the European Union, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said at a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels