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As Russia’s attempt to intimidate Ukraine and, presumably, install a puppet regime stumbles into its second week, it is clear the Kremlin has miscalculated on several fronts.

Kremlin has sought a plausible moral justification for its actions

As Russian troops step up their assault, clergy and worshippers at the Ukrainian Orthodox churches that are attached to the Moscow Patriarchate are distancing themselves from Russia, placing into question one of the Kremlin's main channels of influence in their country. FRANCE 24 reports from a church south of Kyiv.

The West 'essentially provided the funding' for Moscow to boost its military by buying Kremlin oil and gas - at the same time as slashing spending on their own Armed Forces,

Dmitry Peskov claimed that under Russia’s demands Ukraine could be an ‘independent state’ with ‘conditions of neutrality’

The Foreign Ministry on Monday raised its danger ranking level for Russia amid the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel on Ukraine, during which Putin urged the European Union to pressure authorities in Kyiv to respect humanitarian law, the Kremlin said on Monday.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin is alleged to have a £1 billion mansion on the Black Sea. He denies the claims and the Kremlin insists it is merely a business venture by wealthy Russians

“We were all deceived,” said the mother of one Russian solder amidst growing violence and death tolls.

Russia is demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine is "demilitarised" and Donetsk and Lugansk, where intense fighting has raged between Russian backed separatists and Ukrainian forces for eight years, become independent states