Skywatchers across Russia were treated to a rare overnight spectacle as the northern lights coincided with a meteor shower.

The stunning display was visible from the western Pskov region and the southwestern Voronezh region to the Tyumen and Irkutsk regions in the Ural Mountains and Siberia.

Images capturing the vibrant scarlet and green auroras,

President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered his army to "dislodge" Ukrainian troops who stormed over the border last week, as authorities in the Kursk region said over 120,000 people have been displaced due to the fighting.

Kyiv launched a surprise offensive into southwestern Russia's Kursk region on Tuesday, capturing over two dozen settlements in

A group of unidentified vandals splattered red paint on the entrance doors of Lithuania’s embassy in Moscow, the Baltic country’s foreign ministrysaid Monday.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said it lodged a formal protest to Russian Embassy Counsellor Andrei Gasiuk following the incident.

Videos shared by media outletsshowed several red handprints