The Kremlin said on Thursday that deliveries of U.S. long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine would not change the outcome of the war but would create more problems for Ukraine itself.

Ukraine has destroyed a Russian Buk air defense system, Kyiv's military said on Thursday, publishing a video which appears to show its forces annihilating the equipment in a fiery blast.

Ukraine is intensifying drone attacks on targets deep inside Russia. The strikes are doing serious damage to Russia's oil and gas sector. Bloomberg reported that Russia's oil refining is at an 11 month low.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that Poland was playing a "very dangerous game" by considering the possibility of hosting U.S. nuclear weapons. Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday he had invited Prime Minister Donald Tusk for talks on May 1 about the possibility of nuclear weapons from NATO states being deployed in Poland.

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it “a dirty spectacle” that cherry-picks weapons of mass destruction from all other weapons that should also be banned.

Russia blocked a US-led UN resolution barring nuclear arms in space, amid US security concerns it is developing a nuclear space weapon.

Moscow's court service says a third man has been detained in a major bribery case involving one of Russian's most senior defense officials

Timur Ivanov's detention has sparked speculation about whether it might signal a purge, given his close relationship with members of Russia's elite.

A Russian deputy defense minister has been charged with taking a bribe, in the country’s highest-profile corruption scandal since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.