The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Every military action communicates something. The recent drone strikes in Moscow during which three residential and high-rise buildings were targeted certainly did so.

The summer campaign has opened in Ukraine. In a move of desperate vandalism, Russia appears to have ordered the blowing up of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro, and widespread flooding could threaten the stability of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex. Even so, it is hard to see the fighting…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam was in line with Russia's escalating violence in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy of attacking civilian targets.

The western Russian region of Belgorod that borders Ukraine has been shelled and attacked by drones hundreds of times.

Russia’s officials say some TV channels and radio stations were hacked

MOSCOW: After the Kremlin launched its offensive in Ukraine last year, Russian punk rocker Vladimir Kotlyarov left his country along with many other artists and cultural figures.

As Beijing boosts its diplomatic clout, analysts say it wants to “remould” and even supplant existing institutions.

Russia's forces said Ukraine was making a major effort to punch through defensive lines in southeast Ukraine, but Kyiv didn't confirm the attacks and later said it was not true

The Kremlin said a purported radio address by President Vladimir Putin heard on Monday on Russian stations in regions bordering Ukraine was fake and the result of a hack, Russian news agencies reported.

“Traitors and betrayers will get what they deserve.” So warned Russia’s Foreign Ministry following the sentencing of an outspoken critic of the Kremlin to 25 years in prison in April.

As Ukrainian forces gear up for a long-planned counter-offensive to retake territory captured during last year’s invasion, two “volunteer” groups have been accused of conducting short cross-border raids into Russia under the direction of Kyiv.