It’s getting harder for Kremlin officials to cast the war in Ukraine as something so distant that it doesn’t affect the daily routines of Russian civilians.

More than 550 drones were intercepted or shot down in over a dozen regions, including Moscow, in one of largest attacks of the war.

Ukraine launched a drone attack on Moscow overnight on Monday striking a residential building in the Russian capital, Russian Telegram channels reported. Russian officials did not comment much on the incident, except for the mayor of Moscow. In a post on a ...

But as Mr Morrison shows in his technicolour chronicle of the city, beneath the petro-funded sheen, Moscow is a domain of purges, paranoia and ravenous power. History has shaped its character; equally,