Vladimir Putin

On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine, coinciding with the second day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip to Russia. The two visits are emblematic of the changing nature of the global strategic...

A surgeon was able to successfully extract a grenade from inside a Ukrainian soldier's body, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have claimed on Twitter. The unexploded grenade remained "live" inside of the soldier's body and could have...

President Putin publicly reprimanded Denis Manturov yesterday over the Deputy Prime Minister's failure to secure more military aircraft. The enraged Russian President even went so far as to call him a ‘fool.’ Footage from the released video shows Putin questioning...

Ukraine has rejected a temporary ceasefire proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader has asked Ukraine to comply with a 36-hour ceasefire to mark Orthodox Christmas, but Kyiv has refused to reciprocate. Putin ordered Sergei Shoigu, the Russian...

Hollywood actor and director Sean Penn gave one of his Oscars statuettes to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to Kyiv. On Tuesday, November 8th, the actor handed Zelensky one of the two Academy Awards for Best Actor trophies...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Kremlin of "energy terrorism” after 4.5 million people across Ukraine faced power cuts on Friday following Russian attacks on the country’s energy network. More and more power cuts continue across Kyiv, according to the city’s...

Multiple senior American officials have issued a warning concerning conversations held by senior Russian military leaders over the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, increasing concerns in Washington and allied capitals. An official report by The New York Times said...

  Leading experts warn that the use of nuclear weapons in the Black sea region could trigger a poisonous toxic gas cloud and six and a half foot high tsunamis. Nonetheless, Putin continues to this day to  threaten Europe with nuclear...

Putin has associated Russia with Byzantium in ways that are apparent to countries with an Orthodox legacy but are not necessarily clear to the rest of the world. By Theodore Christou Russia's two-headed eagle often worn by Russian athletes on their...

Flights from Russia to available foreign destinations were sold out on Wednesday following President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a "partial’" mobilization of the country’s twenty-five million reservists. Flights from Moscow to the capital cities of the countries which do not...