As we reported earlier, BBC Verify has authenticated video capturing the moment that an apartment block in the Ukrainian capital was struck during a major Russian drone and missile attack. We’ve also been gathering and verifying images showing significant damage to another block in the city.

A combined Russian and missile attack in Kyiv overnight Tuesday left at least 20 people wounded, according to Ukrainian officials. The attack, the latest in a spate of mass drone and missile attacks on Kyiv,

When Israel first started bombing Iran, many in Russia saw it as an opportunity, a means of drawing support and attention away from Ukraine.

In separate comments, the head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying that the situation between Iran and Israel was now critical. Ryabkov warned the U.S.

While Moscow has talked up its partnership with Iran, the deal does not require Russia to come to Iran's military aid The distraction of global attention away from Russia's war on Ukraine. "Kyiv has been forgotten" was a headline in Moskovsky Komsomolets And if the Kremlin's offer to mediate in the conflict was accepted,