The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Pyongyang’s envoy to the United Nations says buildup is to counter threat from ‘hostile nuclear weapons states’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 11,000 North Korean troops are in Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine.

The Kremlin has reportedly developed two alternative plans for resolving the military conflict with Ukraine — one in the event that Trump wins and another for if Harris becomes president

Security and defence will be difficult areas if the Republicans triumph but neither candidate seems keen on a trade deal with Britain

Foreign minister says bomb threats against polling stations in German cities show Putin ‘will stop at nothing’

Joe Biden said his administration had a duty to make the next 74 days count before Donald Trump takes over at the White House

No one who watched Alexei Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous political prisoner, could avoid the question: how will this extraordinary saga end? Was Navalny destined to become Russia’s Nelson Mandela, a redemptive leader who guided his people from oppression to the…

This mordantly funny memoir, published posthumously, lambasts the Russian leader over Ukraine, and scorns the world’s autocracies

Ukraine's army chief warns of intense Russian offensive in Donbas region, seeking Western support amidst escalating conflict.

West’s dominance is being challenged, with Brics summit showing emerging markets are unwilling to bow to pressure

Russia’s apparent plan is to flatten then reoccupy the Ukrainian city, where the situation has become dramatically worse since the beginning of October