The Kremlin has bizarrely requested a face-to-face meeting with Sergei and Yulia Skripal seven years after the botched Salisbury poisonings. Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador to the UK ...

Thanks for following our live page today. Before we go, here's a round-up of the key developments today: Speculation continues to mount over when potential peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin makes 'opening gambit' ahead of peace talks A senior Russian politician has said Moscow is yet to receive a good offer to start peace negotiations - but it ...

On February 6th, the Head of Russian Space Agency Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, was dismissed from his position after just two and a half years years in the post, and the former Deputy Minister of ...

Putin replaced him with high-flyer Dmitry Bakanov, 39, deputy transport minister, seen as an expert on satellites and unmanned vehicles.

As we reported earlier, Russia is continuing to target Ukrainian energy infrastructure with strikes on gas targets (see 7.18am post). But Ukraine is also keeping up its own attacks on Russian oil. ...

Dmitry Bakanov, who led the state-backed Gonets satellite communications system between 2011 and 2019, has been announced as the new Roscosmos chief. He replaces Borisov, who was put in charge of ...