An expert warns Iran's IRGC leadership may flee to Russia amid regime instability after high-stakes U.S. negotiations collapsed and military fractures deepen.

Ross David Cutmore, from Fife, admitted passing on information about training bases and the deployment of Ukrainian forces.

A war game scenario by NATO allies involves Sweden facing a threat and Ukraine on hand to advise on drone warfare.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun presiding over a pared-back Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square, after a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect.

Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on 14-15 May as India prepares to host a diplomatically sensitive gathering overshadowed by divisions within the bloc over the ongoing West Asia conflict.

BBC Russia has obtained information about the death in the war in Ukraine of Valery Averin, a 23-year-old student from Buryatia who had signed a contract to serve in Russia’s unmanned systems forces — the first confirmed case of a student being killed after being recruited through a large-scale campaign that Russia’s Defense Ministry has been running at universities and colleges.

TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) - Japan plans to send several officials to Russia in late May to facilitate communication and help protect assets owned by Japanese companies operating there, the Minister of Economy,

This came shortly after Ukraine and Russia agreed to a three-day ceasefire brokered by America, though by May 10th both sides were accusing the other of having violated it. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president,