2024 was a year of triumphs and setbacks for Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Here’s how it unfolded
The year 2024 saw President Vladimir Putin further cement his power as he sought to counter Russia’s isolation over the war ...
Ukraine War Map Shows Key Town Seized by Russia in Two-Month-Long Siege
Ukrainian authorities confirmed that Russian forces had made gains surrounding Kurakhove, with the Khortytsia Group of Forces ...
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Fresh humiliation for Putin as retreating Russian troops mocked as they flee Syria
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 ...
Daily Express20d
Desperate Vladimir Putin makes major fiscal change as Russian economy crumbles
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 ...
Time21d
Syria Could Be the Beginning of the End of Russia’s Imperial Ambitions
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 ...
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Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
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.
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Russia insists Ukraine war won't end until Putin's goals are met - as spy chief claims moment is 'close'
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 ...
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EDWARD LUCAS: Putin's imperial overstretch in Ukraine means he's now too weak to protect a vital ally like Assad. But cornered, he may prove more dangerous
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 ...
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Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
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 ...
Al Jazeera English22d
‘A blow to Putin’s prestige’: What al-Assad’s fall means for Russia
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 ...
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Vladimir Putin spy chief seeks to sideline Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of possible Ukraine war peace talks
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 ...