The Kremlin has spent much of its failing invasion trying to instil fear of its nuclear arsenal

Russia to test 'weapon of the apocalypse' while Putin gets desperate as Ukrainians break through Russian front

Fighting is continuing in the east of Ukraine

Russian troops forced out of city in eastern Ukraine day after Putin's annexation

The strike left dozens killed or injured

Devastating Russian missile strike on civilian convoy leaves 23 dead and dozens injured including four-year-old girl

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Towering boxing champ and MP Nikolai Valuev drafted by Putin to fight in Ukraine, after decade-long hunt for Bigfoot

The Russian leader will give a speech in Red Square following a signing ceremony, after so-called referendums.

Putin to annex four more areas of Ukraine following sham referendums

Footage of the Nord Stream leaks has been published

Watch: Dramatic footage of Nord Stream leak as EU warns sabotage will not be tolerated and Moscow denies involvement

Video emerged of Russian conscripts being told to arrange their own medical supplies

Russian conscripts told to ‘stick tampons in bullet wounds’ and bring car first aid kits to the battlefield

Many people are fleeing from Russia over fears of the being drafted

Russia poised to close borders to stop military-aged men from fleeing

There are multiple fatalities, including children after a shooting at a school in Russia

Gunman opens fire at school in Russia killing nine and leaving 20 injured

Footage circulated on social media showing a gunman shooting an enlistment officer with a 'sawn-off rifle'

Gunman shoots enlistment officer in Russian draft office 'with sawn-off rifle' amid fury at Putin's mobilisation

Aiden Aslin has been freed

'I am your death': Harrowing words of Russian officer who tortured Brit Aiden Aslin

Paul Urey died in Ukraine

Family of aid worker who died in Ukraine speak of heartbreak as they close on £10k needed to repatriate him

Russian troops are heavily involved in the voting process

Armed soldiers escort Ukraine voters in Russia's sham referendums as desperate Putin goes for land grab

Russians working in some sectors will be exempt from service

Russia reveals IT workers, bankers and state 'journalists' will be exempt from military call up as thousands flee country

The former owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, helped evacuate Britons captured in Ukraine using his luxury jet.

Roman Abramovich evacuated British POWs freed from Russia on his luxury jet

Russia is mobilising 300,000 men to its war

Russian anti-war protesters 'drafted into army' as videos emerge of families ripped apart by Putin's mobilisation

Pictures and video have emerged on social media of desperate Russians trying to flee the country

Russians flee on one-way tickets to avoid being hauled to frontlines of Putin’s ‘meatgrinder’

Liz Truss said Putin was trying to justify "catastrophic failures" in Ukraine

Putin's thinly-veiled nuclear threat is 'sabre-rattling' to justify 'catastrophic' failure in Ukraine, says Liz Truss