A senior Kremlin official has publicly warned that Russia is close to internal collapse. According to the Ukrainian outlet Dialog.ua, Alexander Kharichev, who heads the department for monitoring and analysing public processes within the Presidential Administration, said the country faces serious internal threats that could lead to civil conflict.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine on Wednesday of fomenting trouble in neighbouring Belarus, and said Moscow saw no point in engaging with a Belarusian opposition council that has emerged amid nationwide anti-government protests.

Ukrainian long-range drones attacked an industrial plant around 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) inside Russia, local officials said Tuesday, while Ukraine’s army remained locked in an intense battle to hold back a Russian push on the key city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region.

In late October 2025, Moscow was shaken by something most residents never expected—three nights of drone attacks that struck the city and its nearby areas. More than 240 drones targeted the Russian capital,

Russia announced "next-generation" weapons in 2018, including the Poseidon torpedo, which can be fired by the new "Khabarovsk."

Russia's Chumakov Center has started phase three trials of CoviVac, Russia's third vaccine against COVID-19, the Interfax news agency cited a government minister as saying on Thursday.

Alexei Zhuravlev also said Russia isn't restricted from sending offensive weapons, such as the Oreshnik ballistic missile, to Venezuela.