Anton Siluanov last attended the meeting via video link in April 2022, prompting Western officials to walk out

Latest purchases take value of deals to leave capital’s stock market this year past $100bn

Three more London-listed companies are set to be taken over as the value of deals removing firms from the capital’s under-pressure stock market passes $100bn (£74bn) so far this year.

On Tuesday, Bodycote, the FTSE 250 industrials group that has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1972, agreed a £1.84bn takeover by the US private equity group Veritas.

Moscow has retaliated against Kyiv’s sustained deep strike campaign on Russian infrastructure

India is one of ​the ⁠biggest buyers of Russian oil and that trade is helping Moscow replenish its budget despite Western sanctions

Kyiv says it has restricted ammunition and food deliveries to the thin strip of beach sand where Moscow’s troops are stranded