Vladimir Putin
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Russia has said the agenda of Washington, and the “collective West” has forced the country to change its nuclear doctrine. The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that…
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Russia has launched another attack on Ukraine, officials have said, less than a day after its deadly ballistic missile strike killed more than 50 people in Poltava. The regional administration of the northeastern Sumy region said Russian forces launched an airstrike on Sumy city tonight, hitting one of its university buildings. It said a guided…
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Ukraine has put Vladimir Putin “into a position he never dreamt in his worst nightmares”, the former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has said. Asked whether the invasion into the Russian territory of Kursk had been a gamechanger in the two-year war between Russia and Ukraine, Sir Malcolm said: “It’s not by itself something that is…
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Vladimir Putin has travelled to Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to meet his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in his first visit since the invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. The Russian president arrived in the country yesterday for a two-day visit, during which talks will be focused on “international and regional problems”, the Kremlin said. …
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Key Putin ally urges Ukraine and Russia to end war A key ally of Vladimir Putin has urged Ukraine and Russia to end their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus. Speaking to Russian state television, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said only “high-ranking people of American origin” wanted the war to continue. The…
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Russia has been “severely embarrassed” by Ukrainian advances inside the country and the evacuation of residents from border regions will “play poorly” among the public, an analyst has said. Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the Royal United Services Institute, said Russia’s response to the invasion has not been “particularly impressive” despite Russian forces managing…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for a restrained response to Israel’s suspected killing of the leader of Hamas, advising against attacks on Israeli civilians, two senior Iranian sources said. The message, according to the sources, was delivered Monday by Sergei Shoigu, a senior ally of the Kremlin leader,…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un over devastating floods that caused untold casualties and damaged thousands of homes, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The North, in turn, said Sunday that Putin had also offered “immediate humanitarian support” to aid its recovery efforts, to which Kim responded that he “could…
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The Kremlin has suggested that Russian assassins could be sent to hunt down the political detainees freed by Vladimir Putin in the biggest prisoner swap with Moscow since the Cold War. Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, warned that the prisoners would have to go into hiding after their release, despite having been pardoned by Putin. “I…
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Russia offered to help Vietnam develop nuclear power plants during President Vladimir Putin’s trip to Hanoi, Alexei Likhachev, head of the Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom told RIA agency in remarks published on Monday. Likhachev, who was part of Putin’s entourage during his visit to Vietnam last week, said that he had made the offer to…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his intent to enhance bilateral relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in an article ahead of his planned visit to the DPRK, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. In the article published by the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the DPRK, Putin…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is considering providing weapons to nations hostile to Western countries, a threat that comes after the U.S. gave Ukraine permission to strike with American-made weapons in a limited area of Russia. Putin, speaking to international journalists in a rare interview since the war in Ukraine began, said President Biden granting that…
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked a scheduled round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not accept any enforced plans that ignore its interests. Switzerland’s government said Wednesday it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two…
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Analysis: Why is Russia attacking Ukraine’s power stations? We reported earlier that Russia fired four missiles and 12 Shahed drones into eastern Ukraine overnight. Ukraine’s air forces said nine of the drones were shot down in four regions. Looking at the latest strike, military analyst Sean Bell noted only 24 hours earlier Ukraine saw 58 drone attacks…
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A political activist and member of the rock band Pussy Riot has been sentenced by a Russian court for spreading “war fakes” on social media. Lyusya Shtein has been handed a six-year prison sentence in absentia for the anti-war posts. The 27-year-old was convicted in Moscow over a post on X in which she accused…
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Vladimir Putin has described the idea that Russia would carry out attacks on NATO states as “complete nonsense”. In a speech to Russian air force pilots last night, he said the country had “no aggressive intentions” towards countries such as Poland or the Baltics states. “The idea that we will attack some other country –…
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