Putin is massing air defences around Moscow for a long winter of drone attacks. That means leaving other areas undefended, but he may have little choice in the matter.

The International Energy Agency estimates that repeated drone strikes have cut Russia’s refining capacity by about 500,000 barrels a day.

Until 2022, Russia was one of the largest suppliers of oil and gas to EU countries. With the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has significantly lost its position. RBC-Ukraine examines who in Europe continues to purchase Russian oil and gas,

On 31 October, as a result of a special operation by the DIU, a critically important Russian military facility — the Moscow Ring Oil Pipeline — was rendered inoperative. The pipeline had supplied the Russian army with fuel resources used in its genocidal war against the Ukrainian people.

Though Trump said his October 16 call with Putin was “very productive”, the Russian leader annoyed his US counterpart by extolling Moscow’s supposed battlefield successes near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk and the Oskil river, said two people briefed on their conversation.

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.

At least two people have been killed in a drone attack in Ukraine's south-western Odesa region, and Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia's oil industry.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

One of the most public figures in Russia’s controversial “adoption” of minors removed from occupied Ukraine now faces up to a decade in prison on child-trafficking charges. Irina Rudnitskaya, who heads an organization that advocates for “family values” and supports foster parents,

Three Bulgarians are jailed for painting red hands on France's Holocaust Memorial in a suspected case of Russian "destabilisation".