The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

As the war enters its 568th day, these are the main developments.

Karin Kneissl says she is moving to Russia to lead a thinktank she set up with St Petersburg University

Ex-president remains under four separate criminal indictments

Russia’s propagandists trumpeted the president’s North Korean connection as, in isolation, he threatened to cross a serious line

From the beginning, Russia has framed its invasion of Ukraine as necessary for the defence of the country. According to Vladimir Putin, Nato’s deliberate and aggressive encroachment into a region once dominated by Moscow is to blame, as the west seeks to dismember Russia. By extension, Ukraine – a country,…

Vladimir Putin has met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a satellite launch facility in Russia's far east, for talks on, in Putin’s words, ‘all topics’.

In a summit in Russia, President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un showed how geopolitical tensions have brought the two neighbors isolated by the West into closer alignment.

The world is largely relying on North Korean and Russian media for information about the unusual train journey of leader Kim Jong Un to meet with President Vladimir Putin at a space facility

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed support for Russia’s ‘just fight’ in Ukraine during a summit with President Vladimir Putin.