"There is reason to believe that Ukrainian special services were involved," a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.

Russia said it arrested a man suspected in the murder of a senior military official near Moscow and claimed that a car bomb had been activated remotely from Ukraine.

A top Russian general died Friday in a car bombing, on the same day President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and a day after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

Russia has launched a sweeping drone assault and airstrikes across Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is beginning to question whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end the Russia-Ukraine war, a warning shot to the Russian leader that came just after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome.

The admission is a sign of the deepening military alliance and mutual defense pact between Pyongyang and Moscow.

They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honor of the motherland,” Kim Jong Un said.

North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine, claiming the country’s military had helped Moscow retake control of the border region of Kursk.