Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday predicted the Russian economy would withstand the European Union's latest sanctions package and said Moscow would intensify its strikes against Ukraine.

Moscow may have in development three scenarios of interaction with the United States in the context of the Ukrainian conflict — depending on the actions of the head of the White House Donald Trump.

American woman at a Moscow airport for trying to bring a gun into the country in her suitcase, officials said Friday.Russia's Federal Customs Service said the woman, an unnamed dual citizen, was travelling from the United States via Turkey and was stopped at Moscow Vnukovo airport.

The European Union is targeting Russia with more sanctions over its war on Ukraine. The aim is to deprive Moscow of energy revenue through a lower oil price cap and a ban on transactions with Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Trump wanted to "make them feel the pain," as he put it on the July 4 call, the Financial Times reported, and force Russia into peace negotiations. Zelensky said Ukraine could hit the cities if the U.S. supplied the weapons, per the Post.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on July 18 signed an order withdrawing Moscow from a military technical cooperation agreement with Germany amid strained relations between the two countries.

Workers at Moscow’s Stinker Station save a dozen people a month from losing thousands of dollars to scammers. It’s a rampant problem where scammers scare people into depositing money in cryptocurrency kiosks to avoid jail or fines.

The City of Moscow said it will create a dedicated website for certain investigative reports from the Bryan Kohberger case once legally permitted.