Ukrainian strikes targeting the city have intensified in recent days, the Kremlin says Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has lashed out at Kiev after authorities in Donetsk reported that indiscriminate strikes on the city by Ukrainian forces had left five civilians dead and almost 40 injured on Monday.

Russia will provide passage for civilians to leave the Azot factory, but not by the route Kiev demanded Russia will provide a way out for civilians at the Azot fertilizer factory in the contested Donbass city of Severodonetsk, but will use a different plan to that requested by Kiev, the Russian military said on Tuesday.…

Western countries will keep sanctioning Moscow and damaging their own economies, former Russian president says Europe is in the grip of an energy crisis and the situation will only get worse as the West attempts to ban Russian energy imports, the country’s former president Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.