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A specialist inspects the damaged facade of a multi-storey apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Why was Moscow attacked by drones and who was behind it?

Russia threatens military response after UK sends missiles to Ukraine

The solitary Soviet era T-34 tank parades through Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow at the weekend.

The biggest irony of Russia’s Victory Day event? Where its parade tank was made

Ukraine War: What is the Victory Day parade in Russia, what did Vladimir Putin say about the west?

What is Victory Day in Russia & what did Vladimir Putin say?

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow.

‘Civilisation is at a turning point’ says Putin at Victory Day celebrations

A broken window of a heavily damaged flat can be seen in the high-rise residential building hit by remains of a shot down Russian drone in Kyiv. Picture: Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images

Ukraine shoots down 35 drones over Kyiv as Russian attacks kill four

Russian President Vladimir Putin was not in the Kremlin when a drone apparently exploded above the building (Picture: Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

There can be no pity for murderous Putin – Scotsman comment

Men carry the coffin of eight-year-old Uliana Troichuk, killed during the Russian attack on a residential building in the village of Apolyanka, outside Uman, Ukraine.

Russia's frontline defences 'most extensive' in world, MoD says

US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court earlier this week. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

‘He teased his mother, saying her breakfasts had prepared him for prison food’

Vladimir Kara-Murza is seen on a TV screen as he stands in a glass cage at the Moscow City Court, where he was given a 25-year prison sentence (Picture: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Stalin-style show trials and deaths show depth of repression in Putin's Russia

Journalists and members of the Independent Association of Publishers' Employees hold a rally in Washington DC to call for release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

'He is ready to defend press freedom': the journalist held in a Russian prison

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in a Franco-Chinese business council meeting in Beijing. Picture: Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP

Macron appeals to China leader Xi Jinping to 'bring Russia to senses'

Finnish, Nato and US flags during a Nato foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels. Picture: Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images

Finland hands over documents to become Nato member

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's government applied to join Nato last year.

Finland to become 31st member of Nato after Turkish parliament lifts block

17 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russian authorities freed

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday, March 20, 2023. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP)

Xi Jinping stresses close ties with ‘dear friend’ Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. Picture: Sergei Karpuhkin/AFP via Getty Images)

What image is Vladimir Putin trying to portray from PR drive?

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a political boost for the isolated Russian president after the International Criminal Court (ICC) charged him with war crimes in Ukraine.

China’s Xi Jinping to meet Vladimir Putin in boost for isolated Russia leader

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

What will Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Russia mean for Ukraine?

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

International Criminal Court issue arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks to China's president Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand last September. Picture: SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make state visit to Moscow

Moldovan MP Marina Tauber attends a protest she organised on behalf of the pro-Moscow opposition Shor party in the country's capital Chisinau on Sunday (Picture: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)

Moldova could be first domino in Russian plan for neighbourhood destabilisation

A Ukrainian soldier fires during a training exercise in the Rivne region, amid reports of a new Russian offensive (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin redoubles efforts to take Ukraine, we must not give in to war fatigue

Russian soldiers are dying in greater numbers in Ukraine this month than at any time since the first week of the invasion, according to Ukrainian data.

Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war

A bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label

Moscow’s Beluga Group could import Scotch - breaking whisky boycott of Russia

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (centre), European Council president Charles Michel (left) and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (right) give a joint press conference during an EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv. Picture: Sergei SupinskyAFP via Getty Images

EU prepares more Russia sanctions as one-year anniversary of war looms

A captured Russian tank is repaired by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region (Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosted by US, German and Russian tanks, Ukrainian morale is high

A Ukrainian tank fires toward Russian position near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on January 26, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP)

Russia shifting war focus to Nato and the West, says EU official

The ceasefire status between Russia and Ukraine is uncertain. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Putin-ordered truce uncertain as Ukraine reject ceasefire

Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone. Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Vladimir Putin orders 36-hour weekend ceasefire in Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers watch a drone feed from an underground command center in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. Picture: AP Photo/Libkos

Russia shoots down Ukrainian drone near its Engels airbase

Fergus Auld with President Ilham Aliyev

Scottish diplomat is UK’s new ambassador to oil-rich Azerbaijan

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People sit in a café without power in Lviv, Ukraine. Once a safe haven for refugees, Russian attacks have plunged the city into darkness and cold (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

As winter chills hits Scotland, Ukrainians face 'unliveable' conditions

Brittney Griner, seen her during the second half during the game against the Chicago Sky at Footprint Center on October 10th, 2021, is currently detained in Russia under drug charges. Photo: Mike Mattina/Getty Images.

WNBA player Brittney Griner released in prison swap

A child rests in a cot beside a window protected by sandbags in an intensive care unit for newborns at Okhmatdyt Hospital, Kyiv, yesterday (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees who returned home are being forced to leave again

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky posing for a selfie picture with a Ukrainian soldier as he visits the Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Picture: Stringer/Ukrainian Presidential Press Ser/AFP via Getty Images

Drone strikes hit Russian targets as Volodymyr Zelensky travels east

Citizens shelter in the Metro as Russia launches another missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian officials expect a new wave of Russian bombing this week, with previous rounds targeting critical infrastructure and causing massive water and power cuts, including in the capital.

Explosions remain unexplained at two Russia airbases

Russian president Vladimir Putin. Picture: Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Russia rejects pull-out from Ukraine as condition for talks

People in newly liberated Kherson crowd around volunteers to receive humanitarian food (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukrainians remain resolute in war against Putin and so must we – Steve Cardownie

A man holds a Ukranian flag as people gather in Maidan Square to celebrate the liberation of Kherson, in Kyiv on November 11, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

UK claims Kherson exit brings ‘significant reputational damage’ to Russia

People with Ukrainian flags walk towards Russian army trucks during a rally against the Russian occupation in Kherson. Picture: AP Photo

Russia says latest retreat in Ukraine is complete

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Ukrainian military personnel take part in a training exercise at a facility on November 09, 2022 in southeast England (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Ukraine: Humiliation for Putin as troops ordered out of Kherson

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom .(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US basketball star being moved to a Moscow penal colony

An old woman walks in the Kherson region village of Arkhanhelske, which was formerly occupied by Russian forces. Picture: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images

Russian authorities declare they are working to restore power in Kherson

Russia continues to target civilians in Donetsk (Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Russia’s looks to crush opposition in Donetsk

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Chambers and Partners' director on the last year for the legal sector

Local residents wait in line to collect water from a public water pump in a park of Kyiv. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Kyiv residents still without water after Russia targets Ukrainian infrastructure

A soldier looks at a school that was destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian occupying forces

Russia ‘withdraws officers from Kherson’ ahead of expected Ukrainian advance

The wreckage of a Sukhoi Su-34 military jet lie at the crash site in the courtyard of a residential area in the town of Yeysk in southwestern Russia on October 17, 2022. - A Russian military plane crashed on October 17 into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine, news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

13 dead after Russian warplane crashes into apartment block

The moment BBC reporter Hugo Bachega in Kyiv has to duck as a missile soars overhead before a loud explosion is heard nearby.

Kyiv explosions: Blasts caught on BBC live feed as reporter ducks for cover

Thick black smoke rising from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia

'Humiliating blow' for Putin as ‘truck bomb’ hits key Russian bridge to Crimea

Russian-affiliated forces detained and tortured men in a cellar behind these houses that they occupied during March and April in Kapytolivka village, Kharkiv region. September 28, 2022. Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch

Report claims three men’s bodies dumped in forest by Russian occupiers

In this image released by the Police Press Service, the view from a drone shows the site of a Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. A Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens, an official said Friday, just hours before Moscow planned to annex more of Ukraine in an escalation of the seven-month war. (Ukrainian Police Press Office via AP)

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The war in Ukraine rages on as Russia says it will annex several occupied regions this week.

Russia to annex occupied areas of Ukraine on Friday

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