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The woman said those who refused to be sex slaves would face punishment. She said women would be made to cook, clean, and pleasure the male officers.

A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow has suspended sharing information about its nuclear forces with the United States, including notices about missile tests

A Russian tank formation intended to cause devastation in Ukraine has been hit with heavy losses due to low morale and poor discipline, it has been reported.

Amid a harsh crackdown on Russian media, Alexei Moskalyov was charged with repeatedly discrediting the Russian army, which is classified as a criminal offense under to a new law.

Assault unit members claim in video that superiors 'want to execute us' after 'huge' losses in eastern Ukraine Russia-Ukraine war - latest news updates Members of a recently formed Russian assault... unit say their commanders deployed troops to stop them from retreating and threatened them with death after they suffered "huge" losses in eastern Ukraine. In a video addressed to President Vladimir Putin, a group of about two dozen men in military uniform say they are the remnants of Storm, a unit under the defence ministry.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with U.N. atomic energy chief Rafael Mariano Grossi in Ukraine

Elvira Vikhareva, 32, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin, shared tests with Russia's Sota news channel that showed she had traces of potassium dichromate in her blood.

Moscow said it was planning to move atomic weapons to Belarus in response to the West's increasing military support for Ukraine. Updates      

Crews spent several weeks learning how to operate tanks expected to be used in a Ukraine counteroffensive Russia-Ukraine war - latest news updates Ukrainian crews have returned home after completing... training in the UK on British tanks that are expected to be used in a counteroffensive against Russia. The training has been completed after UK military officials spent several weeks instructing the Ukrainian personnel in how to operate and fight with Challenger 2 tanks, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Monday.

Ukraine demanded Sunday that the U.N. Security Council hold an emergency meeting to deal with Russia's threat to put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, calling the plan "nuclear blackmail" by... President Vladimir Putin.

Former president also warns Moscow will use 'absolutely any weapon' if Kyiv attempts to retake Crimea Russia-Ukraine war - latest news updates The Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow... was preparing for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, as Kyiv claimed Russian forces were "running out of steam". "They [the Ukrainian side] are preparing for an offensive, everyone knows that. Our general staff is calculating this and is preparing its own solutions," Medvedev said in an interview with Russian media on Friday.

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander retired Gen. Wesley Clark discusses Ukraine's choices as they eye a counteroffensive against Russia in the besieged city of Bakhmut.

The bank released a significantly higher figure as European Union leaders approved plans to provide Kyiv with one million artillery shells over the next 12 months.

Beijing is watching 'very carefully' how world responds to Russian aggression, says US secretary of state Follow our Ukraine coverage US secretary of state Antony Blinken has warned that Russia's... invasion of Ukraine has a "profound impact" on Asia, saying that China is watching "very carefully" how Washington and the world respond to Vladimir Putin's war. Speaking on the heels of a visit to Moscow by Chinese president Xi Jinping, Blinken told a Senate foreign relations hearing that if Russia was allowed to attack its neighbour with impunity, it would "open a Pandora's box" for would-be aggressors and lead to a "world of conflict".

The Ukrainian leader also condemned a deadly Russian missile attack against an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia.

In the MoD's latest intelligence update it said 'violent offenders' with 'traumatic combat experience' who took up arms for Vladimir Putin will now have their sentences commuted.

At the talks, Kishida will show his "absolute rejection to Russia's one-sided change to the status quo by invasion and force, and to affirm his commitment to defend the rules-based international... order," the ministry's statement said.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping 's visit comes as Putin faces pressure from sanctions and from an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.      

The Chinese and Russian leaders meet again on Tuesday during Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow.

Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council in early April on what it says is “the real situation” of Ukrainian children taken to Russia

Ukraine has said it will need 1 million rounds of ammunition this year, and Estonia has estimated that would cost around €4 billion.

State media said the Russian leader flew by helicopter to Mariupol, site of one of the bloodiest battles since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

CNN's Melissa Bell reports Russia's children's rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, is accused of war crimes for the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

A highly symbolic move by the International Criminal Court, which accused President Vladimir V. Putin of war crimes, carries moral weight.

The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft dumping fuel on an unmanned U.S. drone. Live updates.