The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Friday that Britain would have to return Moscow money that London had decided to illegally gift to Ukraine to fund Kyiv's military.

In an interview on The World With Yalda Hakim, Andrei Kelin says Moscow told Washington it believes its territorial advances in Ukraine "should be recognised" as part of any peace deal.

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Counter-terrorism police said the case exposes how Russians are contracting out spying operations to criminals and proxy groups.

Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”

Mr Starmer said Britain and other nations would form a “coalition of the willing” to produce a plan. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Turkey's foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday's meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday.

Ukraine's situation in Kursk has deteriorated sharply in the last three days, open source maps show, after Russian forces retook territory as part of a gathering counteroffensive that has nearly cut the Ukrainian force in two and separated the main group from its principal supply lines.

The Speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, on Friday said that Britain would have to return Moscow’s money, which London had decided to “illegally” gift to Ukraine to fund Kyiv’s military.