The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Russia-Ukraine latest: Southern region calls for more arms

Governor of southern Mykolaiv region says defenders are outgunned with superior Russian artillery pounding towns.

Al Jazeera · Jun 10, 2022

Biden calls for ocean shipping overhaul as part of inflation response

Faced with another eye-popping inflation report, President Joe Biden on Friday placed extra emphasis on the House passing a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing ocean shipping costs for goods entering U.S. ports.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

'Donald Trump's populism pollutes the Republican Party and damages democracy'

Leading Republicans still refuse to condemn former US president Donald Trump for the Capitol Hill riots or challenge his false assertion the presidential election was rigged

Daily Mirror · Jun 10, 2022

As Russia goes dark, Vladimir Putin could be taking cues from Kim Jong Un on how to quash dissent

Vladimir Putin has been steadily winding back the clock on Russia's democracy. Independent media outlets have been shuttered, Western businesses have left and free speech has effectively been stamped out.

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022

Estonia summons Russian envoy to protest Putin remarks

Estonia on Friday summoned the Russian ambassador to condemn President Vladimir Putin's "completely unacceptable" praise for an 18th century Russian ruler who captured a city that is now Estonian.

Reuters · Jun 10, 2022

France in No Mood to Make Concessions to Russia, Presidency Says

France is unwilling to make concessions to Russia and wants Ukraine to win the war against Moscow's invading forces with its territorial integrity restored, a French presidential official said on Friday, as Paris seeks to assuage concerns over its stance in the conflict. President Emmanuel Macron has been criticized by…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 10, 2022

Putin 'will probably never stop' denying existence of Ukraine: Austrian FM

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg speaks to FRANCE 24 about the latest comments by the Russian president that his country needs to "take back" lands that were once claimed by Russia – saying that Vladimir Putin "will probably never stop" denying the existence of Ukraine.

France 24 · Jun 10, 2022

The oligarch who could hold key to fate of Britons facing death sentence

Putin has a favour to ask that could be tied to the case of two men jailed in Donetsk, says Kim Sengupta

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022

Africa 'already has shortage' of grain and fertiliser, AU head Sall warns

Senegalese President Macky Sall, who is the current chair of the African Union, granted an interview to FRANCE 24 and RFI in Paris. He discussed his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin last week in Sochi, which focused on the issue of grain supplies stuck in Ukrainian ports. Sall said…

France 24 · Jun 10, 2022

Putin compares Ukraine invasion to Peter the Great’s conquests

Ukraine hits out at attempt to justify theft of another country’s territory

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022