A secret Russian document shows that, even as the two countries grow closer, counterintelligence agents have deep concerns about China.

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s second-largest city with massive strikes in the early hours of Saturday, its mayor said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine.

Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb took out more than a third of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers, Kyiv officials said.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the nation's men's side has been unable to compete at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cups and Uefa's Euro 2024.

Some U.S. lawmakers do not understand the scale of Russia's rearmament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, a day after he held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters. The origin of the dispute is the impact Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill has on U.S. public debt.

The Bank of Russia lowered its key interest rate for the first time since late 2022, even with inflation remaining well above its target.

The feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk provoked chatter, mockery and amusement among the ruling class in Moscow, where one senior official joked about hosting peace talks and another said Musk should bring his businesses to Russia.

President Donald Trump's threat to cancel Elon Musk's government contracts would have far-reaching implications, experts said.