You know, everything you tell us will be used against you,” the interviewer on Russian TV warns Timur Shagivaleev, the man behind one of the country’s biggest drone factories.

It was the first time since taking office that Trump has said he wants to maintain the treaty's limits on strategic nuclear weapons deployments when it expires on February 5. "When you take off nuclear restrictions, that's a big problem," Trump said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces are holding back a concerted summer push by Russia’s bigger army to break through defenses along parts of the front line.

Russia's only aircraft carrier, the 40-year-old Admiral Kuznetsov, is likely to be sold or scrapped, the chairman of Russia's state shipbuilding corporation told the Kommersant newspaper in comments published on Friday.

Chinese warships were tracked heading toward Russia's Far East as Moscow conducted a naval war game in the Pacific.

Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.

Over the past hours, videos showing the immediate aftermath of strikes on the northern city of Kharkiv in Ukraine have been shared on social media channels. Thirty-three people, including four children are reported to have been injured in the strike, according to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

Russia-backed Indian refiner Nayara Energy has named a new chief executive after its previous CEO resigned following European Union sanctions that targeted the company, four sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

A day of mourning was held in the Amur region of Russia, Friday, following a plane crash which killed 49 people including five children.