The attack appeared to have been inspired by white supremacist ideology, Telegram channels close to intelligence agencies reported.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told ABC News that he is "very much confident and pretty sure" that Moscow and Kyiv are "on the verge" of a deal to end the war, as U.S.-brokered peace talks make slow but steady progress.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and 34 other countries have formally approved plans to create a compensation body for damages caused by Russia's invasion

A horrific knife attack on December 16 in Gorky-2 near Moscow shocked Russia. A 15-year-old Uspensky school student attacked a security guard and a 10-year-old pupil, killing the child. The suspect, wearing a “No Lives Matter” T-shirt,

The Bank of Russia filed a lawsuit in Moscow seeking 18.2 trillion rubles ($229 billion) from Euroclear, the state-run Tass news service reported Monday.

By bnm Tehran bureau Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned Western pressure on Iran's nuclear programme and defended Tehran's rights under international law during an interview with Iran's state broadcaster IRIB on December 15,

By Lili Bayer, Julia Payne and Anna Hirtenstein BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The European Union adopted fresh sanctions against Russian oil interests on Monday, targeting traders Murtaza Lakhani and Etibar Eyyub for helping Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions on crude exports that help to fund Russia's war in Ukraine.