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A high-ranking Russian defence official has died after falling from a window of a building in St Petersburg. The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed Marina Yankina's death and is leading the probe into her fatal fall.

US President Joe Biden has called Mr Putin a "war criminal" for plunging Ukraine into chaos and imposed stringent sanctions against key Russian businessmen.

The Kremlin may have ignored billionaire Elon Musk challenging President Vladimir Putin to a fight over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but several Russian officials have stepped in to defend their leader by mocking Musk online.

On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what the West had been predicting for weeks. He launched an invasion on Ukraine, sending his forces by land, air and sea to the neighbouring country.

For several hours, the face of the St. Petersburg suicide bomber was pretty much the one many Russians expected it to be: a young man with a long, thick beard, wearing a black overcoat and the traditional prayer cap of a pious Muslim.

A high-ranking Russian defence official has died after falling from a window of a building in St Petersburg. The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed Marina Yankina's death and is leading the probe into her fatal fall.

US President Joe Biden has called Mr Putin a "war criminal" for plunging Ukraine into chaos and imposed stringent sanctions against key Russian businessmen.

The Kremlin may have ignored billionaire Elon Musk challenging President Vladimir Putin to a fight over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but several Russian officials have stepped in to defend their leader by mocking Musk online.

On Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what the West had been predicting for weeks. He launched an invasion on Ukraine, sending his forces by land, air and sea to the neighbouring country.

For several hours, the face of the St. Petersburg suicide bomber was pretty much the one many Russians expected it to be: a young man with a long, thick beard, wearing a black overcoat and the traditional prayer cap of a pious Muslim.