The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it had detected and tracked a Russian military aircraft operating near Alaska on Tuesday, July 22, though it remained in international airspace. The Russian aircraft was operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), NORAD said, without specifying its type.

Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning following the U.S. deployment of B61-12 nuclear bombs to the UK—just 2,800 kilometers from Moscow. The Kremlin accused Washington of provoking nuclear tensions and deliberately escalating global instability.

In July alone, Andrei Badalov, the vice-president of state-owned pipeline company Transneft, fell to his death from a balcony at his home. A former deputy defence minister was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment on charges of corruption, only for a fellow military official to go down for 17.

Russian officials are reportedly panicking as Ukrainian drones continue to bombard Moscow for the fifth straight night and even succeeded in destroying a train station in the Rostov Oblast region.

In a stunning policy reversal, President Donald Trump reportedly asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy if they could conduct deep strikes into Russian territory, according to a Financial Times report on their July 4th phone call.

Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be short millions of workers by the end of the decade.

Hundreds of passenger planes had to be diverted as Ukraine unleashed chaos at all four of Moscow's airports in a series of overnight drone attacks.It marked the fourth successive day of Ukranian drone strikes on the Russian capital.

Putin has spurned Zelensky’s previous offers of a face-to-face meeting to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.

Russia and Ukraine again exchanged a series of major overnight drone strikes as the two sides maneuvered ahead of a possible resumption of ceasefire talks later this week.Renewed talks -- if they do happen -- would take place as both Kyiv and Moscow near new records for the scale and intensity of cross-border strikes,