From stalled peace efforts to mobile internet blackouts and the blocking of the hugely popular gaming platform Roblox, 2025 has been yet another eventful — and turbulent — year in Russia. The Moscow Times looks back at six of the most important stories that shaped the year: Sisyphean peace talks Nearly a year after U.

Russia will seek key changes to the latest US peace plan to end its war on Ukraine, including more restrictions on Kyiv’s military, according to a person close to the Kremlin.

A strike ahead of Christmas, when people want simply to be with their families, at home, in safety,” Zelensky said in a post on Telegram, originally in Ukrainian. “A strike carried out virtually in the midst of negotiations aimed at ending this war.

Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least three Ukrainians including a child on Tuesday, triggering widespread emergency power cuts and prompting neighbouring Poland to scramble jets.

The attacks prompted emergency ‌power ⁠outages in a number ‌of ​regions, ‍including Kyiv ⁠and ⁠its surrounding region, ⁠Ukraine’s energy ministry ‍said on Tuesday.

A Russian general has been killed after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow Monday morning, with Ukraine suspected of being behind the attack.

Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities on Tuesday, killing several people and triggering countrywide power outages just as winter temperatures drop before th...

Ukrainian military said Russia had launched an early morning ⁠air attack on Kyiv just days after a US-led ‍round of peace talks in Miami ended.