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The Kremlin will negotiate only if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accusing him of creating a "terrorist organisation" and of plotting to violently seize power.

"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine's new long-range missiles and drones are causing significant gas shortages in Russia.

First lady Melania Trump said she has been communicating with Vladimir Putin's government about reuniting Ukrainian children with their families.

Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.

Gould-Davies, a Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as the U.K. ambassador to Belarus, wrote recently that foreign-policy setbacks and economic challenges have put Russia in a bind,

Russia now accounts for roughly 12 percent of EU gas imports, down from 45 percent before its February 2022 invasion. Whether these efforts will meaningfully curb Moscow’s energy revenues remains uncertain, as losses in European markets have been largely offset by growing sales to energy-hungry China and India.