The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed

While Belarus’s Lukashenko has commented on the cross-border attacks, Central Asian nations stay mum.

The Russian army closed in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday, a key logistics hub through which supplies are transported to troops and towns on the eastern front, while Kyiv urged civilians living there to speed up evacuations. In the meantime, Ukraine said its forces have continued…

Social media was buzzing earlier this week with restaurant reviews from the Kursk region of Russia, written by Ukrainian troops. They were clearly enjoying the fact that after months of grinding retreat in the face of a relentless Russian advance, they now found themselves on the other side of the…

Russian authorities decline to investigate Alexei Navalny's death, widow disputes official cause, sparking renewed scrutiny.

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia says Russian authorities have refused to open a criminal investigation into the death of her opposition leader husband

NATO member Poland is paying tribute to its historic victory over the Red Army by honoring fallen Poles and displaying its modern armed forces, which it hopes will deter the threat it sees in modern-day Russia

Former defence secretaries Ben Wallace and Malcolm Rifkind praise government for allowing the Challenger 2 tanks to be at the forefront of Ukraine defending itself, and are optimistic about their impact on the battlefield

‘He was murdered, and now they’re trying to cover their tracks,’ says Yulia Navalnaya

Art and culture, along with language and history, are battlegrounds in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s towns and cities not only cost lives and livelihoods but destroy museums, libraries and sites of enormous historical and cultural significance.

The Ukrainian operation in Russia’s Kursk region began in late July with several days of airstrikes before Kyiv’s ground forces quickly advanced several miles deep into Russian territory on August 6, 2024. Since then, according to various reports, they have established an expanded foothold of as much as 1,000 square…