Ukraine's foreign minister said on Saturday that Russia is planning strikes on Ukrainian nuclear facilities before the winter, and urged the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog and Ukraine's allies to establish permanent monitoring missions at the country's nuclear plants.

Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the Russian Duma, has chillingly warned that Moscow can target the 'EU Capital' with nuclear weapons

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Western governments on Thursday that a nuclear war would ensue if they gave the green light for Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia.

The agreement for Ukrainians to use Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation is still a topic of discussion among Kyiv's Western allies. Moscow is doing everything to prevent this, now threatening to use the SS-18 "Satan" missile,

In a shocking escalation, Russian forces launched a devastating missile attack targeting Ukraine’s secret intelligence communications centre. Massive explosions rocked Kyiv and surrounding regions, including Kharkiv and Sumy,

The explosion would be at an old Soviet test site first used 70 years ago in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago and could be used by Vladimir Putin as a warning to the West over Ukraine