Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles.

MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Russia will ask the United States and Israel to ensure a ceasefire while it evacuates more Russian staff from the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, RIA news agency reported on Thursday.

Zelenskyy warns Russian satellites photographed U.S. military bases across the Middle East in Iran's interests, signaling possible strike preparations.

Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.

Ukraine said it hit a nitrogen fertilizer plant in Russia overnight while Kremlin’s forces targeted several Ukrainian regions, including a deadly strike in Dnipropetrovsk, as the war shows no signs of slowing down.

Lima Quant, an upgraded version of Ukraine's Lima jamming system, is claimed to neutralize one of Russia's most feared weapons.

Following the August summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska, Moscow has repeatedly referred to the "Anchorage agreements," invoking the meeting as a

Russia’s attempts to restrict the use of virtual private networks amid a clampdown on the Telegram messaging platform triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, the service’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov said.

France joined Russia and China in rejecting what Arab nations called a crucial military step against Tehran, while the United States and Israel persist with their operations against Iran and dismiss demands for a ceasefire.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that any effort to restore free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz “must be based on consensus among littoral states,” those countries that line its shores,

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned Armenia, which hopes to eventually join the European Union, that it won’t be able to be part of both the EU and a Moscow-led economic alliance.