Russia does not target civilians in Ukraine and did not strike the shopping center in Kremenchug, Moscow’s envoy to the UN told the Security Council on Tuesday. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said that the mall caught fire due to an explosion of Western-supplied weapons and ammunition, stored at the nearby factory and intended for the shelling…

The country’s holdings, including those frozen by Western sanctions, have surpassed $540 billion Russia has risen to fourth place among the world’s largest economies in terms of foreign exchange reserves, RIA Novosti calculations published on Saturday show.

The capital was targeted by the most missiles in the shortest timespan so far, Ukrainian military says Russia conducted an “integrated attack” of targets in Kiev in the early hours of Tuesday that was “exceptional in its density,” a Ukrainian military official has said.