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Yevgeny Prigozhin died after his plane crash landed in August just two months after his failed coup

‘You yourself have been fighting in such a unit for more than a year’, Putin tells Troshev

At a press conference after talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg sounded like a man determined to take a “glass half full” attitude when he said that “every metre that Ukrainian forces regain is a metre that Russia loses”.

When Vladimir Putin called for a partial mobilisation in September 2022 it was a sign to ordinary Russians that – despite all the Kremlin’s denials – this was no longer a “special military operation” but a real war.

After two major wars and a recent lightning Azerbaijani offensive, the self-styled republic will be dissolved.

Russia is on a mission to grab a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council - and to add insult to injury it’s using crops plundered from its illegal war to curry favour with potential backers, writes Arpan Rai

‘The West is reliable, Russia is equally reliable,’ the Turkish president recently said, reflecting his balancing act.

The meeting came as Vladimir Putin’s military unleashed a large wave of air strikes on three regions of Ukraine

Three women were killed in the street after artillery hit a residential area in Kherson