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Soon after troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western leaders expelled hundreds of Russian spies from their capitals and blacklisted companies with ties to the Kremlin.

Only four months ago, Ella Adman had just finished school and had never before held a gun. Now, standing in the shade in between drills at a military base on Gotland, the strategically important Swedish Baltic island where she grew up, the 19-year-old conscript is carrying a powerful assault rifle.

Vladimir Putin launched drones from his fleet of sanctioned oil tankers to spy on nuclear weapons in Britain, intelligence experts have claimed.

A £100m superyacht believed to be owned by Vladimir Putin is fleeing Europe to avoid Ukrainian drone attacks.

China’s covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by President Vladimir Putin’s defence minister and directly involved at least four Russian and Chinese generals, according to two European officials and documents seen by Reuters.

Heavy machine guns have been mounted aboard a tanker that supplies energy to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to surveillance photos obtained by reporters.

A Russian Duma deputy’s family supports Russian militaries in the war against Ukraine while investing millions of euros in Luxembourg and Germany.

The case against St. Petersburg crime boss Ilya Traber largely relies on testimony from former inmate Igor Lykov, who signed up to fight in Ukraine while in pre-trial detention.

The Russian president’s rhetoric has shifted dramatically over two decades — from early discussions about “reducing excessive weapons” in 2000 to openly declaring readiness to “use all available means” by 2022, as the West gradually adapted to these threats while continuing to support Ukraine.

Alexandra Jost, known online as “Sasha Meets Russia,” responded to being sanctioned by the EU, by saying the designation showed she was “on the right path.”

Two Brazilians used social media to convince their fellow countrymen to sign up for service in the Russian military. When their victims ended up at the front in Ukraine, the fraudulent recruiters pocketed the payments owed to them.

Images shared from the scene showed huge plumes of black smoke rising from the Kapotnya refinery, one of Moscow’s most important energy facilities, supplying up to 40% of the capital’s petrol and 50% of its diesel fuel.

North Korea has recalled its UK ambassador after Britain sanctioned a children’s camp believed to be brainwashing abducted Ukrainian children.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

The captain of a Russian shadow fleet vessel which was intercepted by British troops in the English Channel will appear in court charged with breaching sanctions.

This is the moment British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the Channel during a pre-dawn operation.

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in order to restore Russia’s imperial greatness. Instead, he may go down in history as the man who transformed Russia into China’s junior partner, thereby demoting it to the ranks of middle powers — or, worse, transforming it into a Third World country with nuclear weapons.

Russia has begun construction on a new military base eerily close to Finland’s eastern border for the first time since the USSR collapsed.

The EU stopped short of banning alumina exports in its 21st sanctions package against Russia. This decision comes despite mounting pressure following investigations that revealed raw materials from Ireland’s Aughinish plant were feeding into the supply chain of Russia’s military-industrial complex.

When 23-year-old Russian student Valery Averin signed a military contract in January after being recruited into Russia’s drone forces campaign targeting students, he was told he would train as a drone operator.

A "fearful and paranoid" Vladimir Putin is facing yet more questions over his apparent poor health after he was seen with a swollen and ’visibly aged’ face.

The European Union has imposed direct restrictions on the Central Asian nation for the first time, accusing it of serving as a conduit for technology used in Russian missiles and drones.

Russia is planning to halt the flow of Kazakh oil to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline, hitting a refinery that supplies almost all of Berlin’s petrol and heating fuel.

Roman Abramovich has gone to the European court of human rights (ECHR), claiming that a criminal investigation into his financial affairs by the Jersey authorities has breached his human rights, according to reports.