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Two Russian officials ease fears of nuclear conflict after the president’s thinly veiled warning to the West.

An expert claims there are two scenarios in which Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons - warning that the tyrant doing so "has the potential to destabilise" and "extend the war"

Putin's ally and former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and prime minister has warned "there is no going back"

India has maintained that the purchase of Russian crude is not made through government intervention and the supply is being sourced from the global market

Russian President Vladimir Putin tripled down on the war in Ukraine in a short but defiant televised speech on Tuesday. Politically, he announced that a series of referendums on joining Russia would be held in the conquered territories of eastern Ukraine this week. Militarily, he repeated previous not-so-veiled threats to…

Using such weapons has no tactical purpose – it would only lose the Russian president support at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Kremlin-orchestrated votes in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are widely considered to be illegitmate

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As a NATO member and neighbor of Russia, Norway’s geographical and geopolitical location has proved relevant in the context of the war in Ukraine