Ukraine is the first but certainly not the last area of contention with Russia that the new administration must address.

Vladimir Putin has faced fresh humiliation after his troops were mocked as they rushed to evacuate Syria. Locals sneered at Russian troops as they fastened their efforts to pull out of the Middle ...

Russia is set to loosen restrictions on how foreign countries pay for the fossil fuels they receive as economic sanctions continue to plague Vladimir Putin’s regime. The move comes after an ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been dealt a huge blow by the collapse of a regime to which he gave his full support, helping Assad cling to power after Syria descended into civil war and ...

Vladmir Putin is running out of time with his crumbling economy and overstretched, faltering army trying to advance his ill-advised invasion of Ukraine, while attempting to suppress pro-democracy ...

Vladimir Putin’s loss of a key regional ally in Bashar al-Assad has weakened Moscow at a crucial moment - VALERY SHARIFULIN/AFP Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield.

President Putin wants Ukraine to fully pull out of four eastern regions it claims as its own, but Kyiv rejects that as a form of surrender. President Zelenskyy has indicated a diplomatic ceasefire ...

Vladimir Putin will be tossing and turning in uneasy sleep in his luxury palace outside Moscow. How long will it be before a mob loots its glitzy halls, just as contemptuously as Syrians rampaged ...

His comments may be seen as a sign that Putin could now want a political solution to the war which has left hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers dead or wounded, with similarly high ...

The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a high-intensity war and nobody will lend Vladimir Putin a kopeck. Russia’s overheated, military-Keynesian war economy looks much like the ...

After overseeing 13 years of the devastation that has come to define Syria’s civil war, the country’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled Damascus for Moscow. “Following his talks ...