Ukraine was able to strike targets more than 300 miles from the border despite dense Russian air defences around Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

But as Mr Morrison shows in his technicolour chronicle of the city, beneath the petro-funded sheen, Moscow is a domain of purges, paranoia and ravenous power. History has shaped its character; equally,

The ban extends even to government agencies and emergency services, with only the defense ministry and mayor's office allowed to make posts.

Russian security services have reportedly launched raids targeting prominent Muslim figures amid rising concern inside the Kremlin over political instability and radical influence. The crackdown follows inflammatory remarks from a former Chechen official who claimed Moscow’s Muslim population could become a decisive force in a future collapse of

The Russian Defence Ministry reported on Sunday that its air defenses downed 1,054 Ukrainian drones in the previous 24 hours, one of the biggest tallies reported by the military. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported 81 drones were downed by the capital’s air defenses from late Saturday to early Sunday.

A Moscow court has ruled in favor of Russia’s Central Bank in its lawsuit against Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house that holds the bulk of Moscow’s frozen assets in Europe, Russian media has reported.

Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: Support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it. In the past week, that deal was broken.

Russia is hosting a scaled-down version of the parade this year, saying it won't display military equipment due to the war situation.

Over the weekend, Ukraine launched its largest drone assault on Moscow since the start of the war in February 2022. It deployed more than 500 drones in coordinated waves that kept Russian air defenses firing through the night and into the morning.

Moscow started as a fort on a hill and has survived invasion, revolution, civil war and Soviet collapse to transform into a formidable world power. But with the limits of Russia's power tested in Ukraine,