The Kremlin has welcomed a meeting with US president-elect Donald Trump just days after he claimed Vladimir Putin wanted to sit down with him.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there could be progress on setting up the meeting after Trump is sworn in as US president on 20 January.

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a Ukrainian drone attack in its republic of Chechnya.

Ukraine's largest private energy company. Plane crash investigation to take place in Kazakhstan, says Kremlin The Kremlin says an investigation into the Azerbaijan Airlines crash will take place ...

Experts say evidence in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan points to a possible midair explosion, not an encounter with a flock of birds.

Vladimir Putin has apologised for the Azerbaijan Airlines crash but stopped short of accepting responsibility for what he described as a “tragic incident”.

It comes after Ukraine said it was behind a drone strike on a Russian oil base in the region. Submit your questions for our correspondents in the box below.

Azerbaijan Airlines, the carrier of the passenger jet that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, said preliminary investigations have found the disaster occurred “as a result of physical and technical external interference,

Ukraine prioritizing security guarantees over immediate NATO membership, senior diplomat says Russia must admit guilt over downing Azerbaijani airliner, pay compensation, Azerbaijan's president says Ukraine secures over $156 million for defense industry from European allies,

But Azerbaijan, a former Soviet state, has become increasingly critical to the Russian economy since the war in Ukraine began. It buys Russian oil and gas and provides trade links to Iran ...

Vladimir Putin has apologised for the Azerbaijan Airlines crash but stopped short of accepting responsibility for what he described as a “tragic incident”. In a phone call with Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, Putin “offered his apologies ...

Azerbaijan's non-oil-and-gas exports to Ukraine saw a remarkable increase in November 2024, Azernews reports, citing the December Report issued by the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication.