カテゴリー: Vladimir Putin
Wonsan resorts offer troops time off to recover, but some wonder if move is a pretence for military trainingAfter two years fighting for Russia on the frontlines in Ukraine, Aleksei returned to his home town of Vladivostok last summer to recover from a…
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable contentGoogle has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitat…
Baku reportedly preparing to appeal to ‘an international court’ unless Moscow takes responsibility for crash Europe live – latest updatesAzerbaijan is escalating its rare standoff with the Kremlin as the fallout from the downing of an Azerbaijani passe…
Timing may show two leaders want to coordinate approach in engaging with new US administration over UkraineUS politics live – latest updatesThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held a video call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in a symbolic…
Discovery of two injured servicemen sent from Pyongyang and disguised as Russian fighters blows apart myth that Zelenskyy’s fight is solely with MoscowThe news was sensational. It travelled quickly among Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Russia’s Kursk re…
The president defended his record on Ukraine, Gaza and Afghanistan but foreign policy successes have been fewOn paper, few US presidents could boast the foreign policy bona fides of Joe Biden, a veteran statesman with nearly a half-century of experienc…
Kyiv keen to emphasise that Ukraine is fighting an unprecedented coalition of malign autocratic states Ukraine’s capture of two North Korean soldiers on the battlefield has provided a rare glimpse into their role and Pyongyang’s participation in the Ru…
Diplomatic and military ties with Moscow making Pyongyang ‘more capable of waging war’, official saysNorth Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang “more capable of waging wa…
Authorities now have access to cockpit dialogue from Azerbaijan Airlines plane that went down on Christmas DayBrazil’s air force has extracted the data from two black box recorders belonging to a crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku claims was d…
Aid package includes weapons and economic assistance to pay for critical government services; Ukraine foreign minister visits Syria. What we know on day 1,042The US has unveiled almost $6bn in military and budget aid for Ukraine, as the Biden administr…
Ilham Aliyev said Russia should apologise and pay compensation to the state and the people in the crash which killed 38 people last week. “We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. We are not saying that it was done inten…
President Aliyev says Moscow must ‘admit its guilt’ after downing plane, albeit unintentionally, with loss of 38 livesAzerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev said the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentional…
Moscow has confirmed its air defences were repelling Ukrainian drones at the time of plane’s flight but has not admitted it shot it down. What we know on day 1,040Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has called on Russia to provide a clearer expla…
Kremlin says Russian president has spoken to Azerbaijan counterpart after crash in which 38 people diedRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVladimir Putin has apologised for a “tragic incident” in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed on Christ…
This blog is now closed, you can read more of our Ukraine war coverage herePoland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk traveled Saturday to his country’s border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad to inspect progress in the construction of military fortific…