The official was part of a briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Democratic Trump enemy Adam Schiff, and told lawmakers about Russia's repeat offending.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied today that Russian operatives loyal to Vladimir Putin (pictured right in Moscow today) were interfering in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump (left).

Donald Trump dismissed a report claiming his former acting Director of National Intelligence told Congress Russia wants him to win in November, claiming it's just another Democrat 'hoax.'

Graphic pictures showed the man lying on a hospital bed and clutching at the stump of his left leg which was cut off above the knee in the city of Projopyevsk, 2,100miles east of Moscow.

The Commander-in-chief took to Twitter on Saturday morning after news that Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders was recently told by officials that Russia is trying to help his campaign.

President Donald Trump has denied getting told by to intelligence officials that Russia is intervening in the 2020 primaries and wants to help Bernie Sanders.

Shelby Pierson,inset, is the intelligence community's top election security official. She told lawmakers on Thursday that Russia was resuming interference efforts. Trump is main.

The governor of Hatay Doğa said the soldiers had been attacked in Idlib by regime forces and as a result 'twenty-nine were martyred'.

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Maxim Gareyev, 33, a highly-educated IT worker from Moscow, has been jailed for the murder of 24-year-old Ekaterina Semochkina after stabbing her to death.

Dr Alexey Pavlovsky believes integral evidence from the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine was falsified by Australian investigators.

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.

Saudi Arabia slashed its oil export prices over the weekend and declared a price war with Russia that sent global markets reeling and marked the sharpest decline in oil futures since 1991.

Petrol could plummet to $1 per litre after a price war erupted between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.

Bill Browder, a human rights campaigner and former fund manager in Russia, made the explosive allegations in his testimony to the intelligence and security committee.

Animal rights campaigners in Russia's coldest city, Yakutsk, have bitten back against officials who claimed that 260 dead animals were slaughtered over fears of the spread of rabies in the region.

City mayor Sergey Sobyanin has ordered a £92million hospital to be built 40 miles from Moscow's city centre even though Russia currently has only 34 cases.

Moscow officials have banned gatherings of more than 50 people in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus. It comes as plans to speed-build a 500-bed hospital to treat victims were revealed.

President Vladimir Putin said the spread of coronavirus in Russia is  'under control' today, after touring a new facility built to spot empty supermarket shelves and to track quarantined citizens.

Natalia Korotova, 33, from Perm Krai in Russia, is the proud owner of London, a nine-month-old puma, who is already incredibly large and a big presence in her home.

The Lunar-25 lander will be the first time Russia has launched a spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon since 1976 - when Lunar-24 touched down.

This is the dramatic moment a rescuer manages to save a 15-year-old girl who was falling from a balcony of a Russian tower block while she was more than 140-feet above the ground.

Viktoria Aimetdinova, 23, strangled, stabbed and burned baby Bogdan Gafner in a forest 'to save world from apocalypses'. She has been sentenced to forced psychiatric treatment in Russia.

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.

Dillian Whyte has undertaken a 40-hour drive to Portugal for a training camp ahead of his heavyweight clash with Alexander Povetkin - a bout which could be postponed this week.

A major scare over Vladimir Putin's health emerged today as Russia's top coronavirus doctor was stuck down with Covid-19 - one week after meeting and shaking hands with the president.

Russia's youngest Covid-19 victim who was working from home and looking after her children before she succumbed to the disease, posted updates of her illness while losing her fight for life.

Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said.

Stock indexes gained about 2 percent on Thursday as oil prices soared on hints of a Saudi-Russia deal, but doubts returned Friday on whether the rebound would last as demand tapers off.

Anton Franchikov (pictured with his wife Svetlana), 31, berated a group of people from his balcony before grabbing a hunting rifle and opening fire when they came inside.

The British spy behind a notorious 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump's links to Russia is being sued by three oligarchs in the High Court (pictured, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele).

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.

Chinese city Suifenhe on the border with Russia has gone into full lockdown after detecting a total of 127 imported coronavirus cases. A makeshift hospital is being built and will be ready on Saturday.

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.

Brazilian Malcom had been in good form before the shutdown, putting in two impressive displays - scoring a goal and providing one assist and being crowned as the best player in March.

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign

Compared to the previous three months, China's economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and with a 6 per cent drop on last year. The UK economy could shrink by up to 15 to 25 per cent.

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.

Ian Wright has revealed how Roy Keane taught him a lesson on timekeeping after he arrived just two minutes late for lunch during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Russian animal rescuers were given special permission to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles from Tver to save three bear cubs in Kirov, Russia. The cubs were abandoned for two days.

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.

Moscow is offering cash to recovered patients who donate blood, hoping that they will have developed antibodies which can help other people fight off the disease (pictured, recipient Alexander Kutuzov).

A clever raven was spotted in Ufa, Russia, lifting a plastic lid in its beak, flying it up a hill and then snowboarding back down. A passerby stopped to take a video of the bizarre moment.

Russia reported 4,774 new cases of coronavirus Thursday - marking the second straight day of decline - despite warnings that the country is rapidly running out of hospital beds.

Sergei Sobyanin said Russia's 0.9 per cent mortality rate was so low because of mass testing which leads to a high number of confirmed infections.

Infections outside Moscow and its surrounding region have soared 110 per cent in the past week.

Analysts and President Vladimir Putin's political enemies wonder if his long and brutal reign might fall victim to the coronavirus crisis amid the perilous effects of the pandemic in Russia.

Mother-of-two Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, plunged 50ft from an office window in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, after being told her hospital would treat coronavirus patients, despite lack of PPE.

The Russian government reported a total of 87,147 cases on Monday, which is almost 4,000 more than China's official toll of 83,912.