Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, has mocked Russia over the condition of one of its submarines after it was spotted surfacing in the English Channel apparently suffering technical issues.

Russian state television has accidentally exposed the location of a secret airfield used for anti-drone operations. What was meant to be a patriotic propaganda feature instead handed Ukrainian analysts the coordinates of a covert base housing modified Yak-52 and Cessna aircraft used to shoot down Ukrainian drones.

Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, has thanked Russian state-backed television channel RT for providing journalists to help prop up Belarusian state media after hundreds of staff went on strike in protest against his rule.

The European Union has sanctioned RTRS, the Russian digital television transmission company, but not RSCC, the state-owned satellite company, which is doing exactly the same thing, claims Andre Lange, who heads up the influential Denis Diderot Committee.

Eastern European news outlet Visegrad 24 posted on X: "Young Russians sing a forbidden song in St Petersburg. Noize MC is a Russian pro-Ukrainian rapper forced to live in exile in Lithuania. The crowd sings his song 'Cooperative Swan Lake' in which he calls for Putin to be overthrown."

He made an appearance on Russian state television. — -- In what may be seen as his latest overture to Russia, Donald Trump sat down for an interview that was aired on a state-sponsored television station. Trump was interviewed by Larry King for RT ...

HMS Iron Duke, based in Plymouth, monitored the Russian Kilo-class submarine Novorossiysk and her support tug Yakov Grebelsky near the French coast close to Ushant, at the western entrance to the Channel.