The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounces ‘brutal act’ after suspected gunman found dead. Plus, the people who inherit hobbies from loved ones

Xi was unanimously voted to serve a third term as the president and commander of the 2 million-member People’s Liberation Army.

The war in Ukraine is driven by the interests of several "empires" and not just of Russia's, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday. Francis said the conflict was fueled by "imperial interests, not just of the Russian empire, but of empires from elsewhere". He expressed a readiness…

Russia bombarded Ukraine on Thursday with Kinzhal missiles, which fly many times faster than the speed of sound.

They know our first sympathy must be with Ukraine, as is theirs. But they need our support in this time of repression, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

Vladimir Putin’s brutal military assault on sovereign neighbour continues in face of heavy losses and near-unanimous international condemnation

Russia launched a devastating bombardment against cities across Ukraine, killing at least five people and casting hundreds of thousands into sporadic blackouts with a new mix of weapons that mostly evaded air defenses.

U.S. President Joe Biden dropped into a meeting at the last minute in the White House to see a man all of Washington wants an audience with: Sauli Niinisto, once upon a time known as the “Putin whisperer.”

Russia has unleashed hypersonic missiles for the first time since the start of its Ukraine invasion, triggering a nuclear meltdown alarm.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian mercenary group Wagner and Vladimir Putin's previous chef, has been cut off from secure government phones