The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Chinese TikTok Users Are in Love With ‘Daddy Putin’

Popular videos paint the Russian president as a widely admired figure.

Foreign Policy · May 15, 2022

Russian neighbor Finland announces it wants to join NATO

A senior NATO official that Russia's military advance in Ukraine appears to be faltering as Russia's neighbor Finland announced it wants to join the Western military alliance.

WEKU · May 15, 2022

Finland announces ‘historic’ decision to join Nato as ‘a new era begins’

Russia had previously threatened Sweden and Finland with ‘retaliatory’ measures if they joined the alliance

Evening Standard · May 15, 2022

G7 warn of Ukraine grain crisis, ask China not to aid Russia

The Group of Seven leading economies warned Saturday that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis which threatens poor countries.

WEKU · May 15, 2022

Battle rages for Ukrainian region of Donbas

Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium.

Reuters · May 15, 2022

Ukraine's Zelenskyy defiant as Russia retreats from Kharkiv

Fresh off his country’s Eurovision win, a defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to one day host the song contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, which is almost entirely in Russian hands aside from a stalwart group of a few hundred Ukrainian fighters who continue to hold out in…

The Independent UK · May 15, 2022

Boris Johnson is using Ukraine crisis to launch a British comeback in Europe

UK’s revival of old alliances in eastern Europe and Scandinavia to help deter Russia fuels new tensions with the EU as Northern Ireland row looms

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022

Cambridge spies and Brexiters have a lot in common

As Simon Kuper points out in his excellent book, both groups betrayed us to Moscow – but the former did it deliberately

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022

Finland, Sweden Inch Closer to Seeking NATO Membership

Finland's government declared a "new era" is underway as it inches closer to seeking NATO membership, hours before Sweden's governing party on Sunday backed a plan to join the trans-Atlantic alliance amid Russia's war in Ukraine. Russia has long bristled about NATO moving closer to its borders, so the developments…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 15, 2022

Fierce Fighting in Ukraine's East but Eurovision Win Lifts Spirits

Ukraine's forces were fighting off a fierce Russian onslaught on the east of the country Sunday, after a Eurovision victory gave the country a much-needed boost of morale. President Volodymr Zelensky warned on Saturday that the war in his country risked triggering global food shortages, adding that the situation in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 15, 2022