The Kremlin said on Monday that long-standing Western accusations that Russia commits sabotage in the U.S. and Europe are "empty and ephemeral" and have not been proven.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia may need to act to respond to what it called European Union plans to militarise the bloc that cast Russia as its main adversary. European leaders on Thursday backed plans to spend more on defence and continue to stand by Ukraine in a world upended by Donald Trump's reversal of U.

In response to the European Union’s newly announced rearmament initiative, Russia has signalled plans to bolster its own defence. "All this militarization is directed primarily against Russia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday,

For three years, the Kremlin saw the United States as its biggest enemy, accusing U.S. President Joe Biden of prolonging the Ukraine conflict by supplying weapons to Kyiv. But with U.S. President Donald Trump initiating a rapprochement with Moscow and halting support for Ukraine,