The country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of ...
President Alexander Lukashenko’s opponents are imprisoned or exiled abroad by his unrelenting crackdown on dissent and free ...
Despite exorbitant losses and the need to ask North Korea and Iran for help, President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of giving up the fight. Russia has lost many of its most modern tanks ...
Putin sends General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to organise the fight back before Donald Trump forces peace negotiations Russia’s defence ministry may believe its forces are “defeating” Ukraine’s ...
In a blow for Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Defence said the Russian Central Bank (CBR) is still struggling to tackle high inflation. Interest rates are at 21% - compared to 4.75% in Britain ...
Dysfunction in the Russian military, with Mr Putin as its de facto commander-in-chief, is another. But US president Joe Biden has sent the final military package of his tenure to Ukraine ...
Putin's army reportedly lost up to a 'battalion of soldiers' during fighting in Makhnovka in Russia's southern Kursk region. 'In battles yesterday and today near just one village, Makhnovka ...
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/Getty Images Since the start of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and his propagandists have made repeated threats about its nuclear arsenal, stoking fears that ...
Natalia Vlasova was captured by Putin’s soldiers in the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2018, four years before Russia invaded the country. She told a Russian court of her harrowing torture and ...
Kremlin leaders share many characteristics, but they are not all alike. President Vladimir Putin will one day be replaced (sooner, I suspect, than many now expect); and another leader with the ...
"Ukraine has cut off more than just Russian gas transit. We have cut off some of Putin’s last remaining leverage over Europe, and his use of energy as a weapon," Ukraine's foreign minister ...