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Serbia, Slovakia and Poland's call for a permanent end to Russian gas flows pose issues for the Russian leader.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine could find a legal way to hold peace talks with Russia on ending their nearly three-year-old war, but Moscow sees no willingness on Kyiv's part to engage.

Vladimir Putin is "escalating" a sabotage and destabilisation campaign against European NATO member states to deter further military assistance to Ukraine, experts have said.

His inauguration speech was loudest in its silence on Ukraine. But hours later, US President Donald Trump laid bare – in a trademark casual, rambling fashion – his position over the war in Ukraine. And it was tougher on the Kremlin than you might expect.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has refused to directly engage with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in any upcoming talks to end the war in Ukraine. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

AN EVIL Vladimir Putin propagandist has sent a chilling warning to British mums threatening to ruthlessly kill their sons. Sadistic Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov told the West that if they

Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. But some experts say this image of resilience is a mirage crafted by the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin's 25-year interaction with foreign leaders provides ... In a 2007 meeting in Sochi in which they discussed energy supplies to Europe, the Russian president brought in his large Labrador. Putin knew that Merkel was terrified of dogs ...

HERMANN Goering, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, survived the cut. Bottles of wine once owned by him – part of a collection seized by the Soviet army as spoils of World War II and stashed in Moldova’s labyrinthine underground cellars – remain on display.

Russian forces have captured hundreds of square miles of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region over the past year as part of their advance on the city of Pokrovsk.