The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

€300m fund will help member countries buy defence equipment and increase support to Ukraine; Odesa strike knocks out heating. What we know on day 996

A Moscow woman received an eight-year prison sentence for anti-war social media posts written more than two years ago and attracting fewer than 70 views.

Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence secretary. Alongside Elon Musk, pharmaceutical company entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been tapped to lead a newly named Department of Government Efficiency.

Russia's opposition will stage a major anti-war, anti-Kremlin demonstration in Berlin this weekend, a vital test for a movement driven into exile by war and repression, and plagued by infighting.

IN DEPTH: Experts tell Andy Gregory and Tom Watling that the real question is how much Kyiv’s troops are able to inflict casualties on the Russians as the price for taking the territory back

When he claimed victory in the early hours of November 6, Donald Trump said he was a man of his word. A hallmark of his second term as US president would be “promises made and promises kept”. Whether or not this would include his promise to resolve the conflict in…

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression.

The alleged operative surfaced in 2019 wearing a camera harness labelled ‘equipment of St Petersburg’ – but sadly this documentary is thin on other details

December WTI crude oil (CLZ24 ) Wednesday closed up +0.31 (+0.46%), and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ24 ) closed up +0.0008 (+0.04%). Crude oil and gasoline prices recovered from 2-week lows and settled slightly higher on Wednesday. Short covering emerged in crude Wednesday after Russian President Putin and Saudi Crown Prince...