He argues the UK has "neglected" its post-World War Two responsibility to be the guardian of the western Atlantic, and now the Royal Navy is "trying to find a way to look credible" in addressing a threat that has been "steadily increasing for the past 20 years... but still ignored by the government and Navy".

On December 3rd the European Commission unveiled a long-awaited proposal to use frozen Russian assets, some €210bn ($245bn) of which are in Europe, to underpin a loan to Ukraine, initially €90bn but ultimately perhaps much more,

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February.

Russian operatives linked to President Vladimir Putin's intelligence networks used commercial shipping routes to access UK ports and critical infrastructure sites.

Milan’s Teatro alla Scala has celebrated its gala season premiere with a Russian opera for the second time since Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A Russian cosmonaut was recently booted from an upcoming NASA and SpaceX mission to the International Space Station. Russia's space agency confirmed the spacefarer's removal and replacement on the mission,

Milan’s Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere with a Russian opera, Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”

The United States itself still buys nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his first visit to India in four years.

An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison an ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.

As the White House tries to curb Moscow's energy income, Vladimir Putin enjoys a warm welcome in India, and promises an "uninterrupted supply" of Russian fuel.

Russia's president bears "moral responsibility" for the death of a British woman poisoned with the nerve agent, an inquiry concluded.