The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Russia claims control of Selydove, near Pokrovsk; spotlight on Moscow’s expanded use of torture since invasion. What we know on day 980

SpaceX previously told The Independent claims of conversations between the billionaire and Russian presidents were ‘unsubstantiated’ and ‘misleading’

Russian President Putin demonstrates nuclear forces exercise amid tensions with the West over Ukraine, emphasizing readiness and deterrence.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently accused North Korea of plans to send 10,000 soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine. South Korean intelligence later gave credence to Zelenskyy’s assertion, as the country’s legislators noted that North Korea has already dispatched 3,000 soldiers to Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring a simulation of a retaliatory strike

Boy was traced and tested for Novichok after contact with the Skripals on 4 March 2018, inquiry told

The US says it will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of its weapons if North Korea joins Russia’s war.

A Foreign Office minister told Parliament that the Government was committed to making progress in releasing the funds

Moscow said Tuesday it had seized the war-battered mining town of Selydove in eastern Ukraine where Kyiv's forces are buckling and as concern grows in Kyiv and abroad over North Korea's expanding military ties with Russia.

Seoul has long accused the nuclear-armed North of sending weapons to help Moscow fight Kyiv, and after Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defence deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, Pyongyang is alleged to have moved to deploy soldiers en masse.

Strikes on Derzhprom building described as cultural vandalism against symbol of Ukrainian resistance