Kalashnikov Concern said it plans to mass-produce the 30-round cartridges, which are meant to be fired by its AK-12 and split into fragments.

Through art, food, tourism and academics, an increasingly isolated Moscow is seeking to cement lasting ties with Pyongyang.

Ukraine’s top negotiator points to growing convergence in talks, even as disputes over security guarantees and territorial control remain unresolved

Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.

Sixteen Cameroonians have been killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the BBC has confirmed after a foreign ministry source verified that a recently leaked diplomatic note circulating on social media about the deaths was authentic.

MOSCOW/LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia had the right to defend itself from what it called piracy after a British newspaper reported that a Russian navy frigate had escorted oil tankers sanctioned by Britain through the English Channel.

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz hours before President Donald Trump's deadline for Iran to stop threatening the vital waterway.

In a separate development on Thursday, Russia's best-known independent ​news outlet, Novaya Gazeta, said masked security officers were searching its Moscow office.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has declared a ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter. Putin’s decree, released by the Kremlin, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting from 4 p.

The two firms plan to develop drones that can be ‘deployed quickly and at low cost in the real combat conditions of Ukraine’.