Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia will “no longer rely” on the West to trade energy with and instead Moscow will shift its business towards China and India.

In his meeting with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said relations between the two countries are “reaching new milestones"

Russia says the United States should prove that it was not behind the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, days after a report by famous American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that US Navy divers sabotaged the multibillion-dollar Russian infrastructure.

President Putin says Russia's powerful military-industrial complex is ramping up production amid the war in Ukraine.

Russia's foreign minister says he is certain that his country will achieve its goals in neighboring Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that unnamed US military officials have threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with assassination.

The United States and its allies in the NATO military alliance together with Ukraine are bent on defeating Russia “on the battlefield” in order to destroy it, Russian foreign minister says.

Russia says Ukraine is fully aware of Moscow's demands for an end to the war against the ex-Soviet republic.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says NATO is fanning the flames of tension in the South China Sea in a fashion detrimental to Russia.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 16:00 GMT, November 19, 2022