The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

LZ Granderson: The nation is still hung over from the Tea Party. Don't let 2022 midterms be a repeat

There's a Twitter game that routinely starts whenever a new, frightening revelation about the Trump administration becomes public: Clips of Hillary Clinton predicting that specific horror are resurrected. It's really quite remarkable. From President Donald Trump's affinity for Russia's Vladimir Putin to his refusal to accept the election results. ("Every…

Los Angeles Times · May 13, 2022

Mark Z. Barabak: In Ukraine, using an anti-Trump playbook to go after Putin

Over the last two decades, Mike Madrid has battled Democrats, Republicans, Donald Trump and a pesky family of squirrels that assumed residence in the eave of his Midtown Sacramento home.

Los Angeles Times · May 13, 2022

Vladimir Putin's plans in turmoil as captured Russian soldier says troops 'shooting themselves dead' to escape Ukraine war horror

A surrendered soldier has claimed that Putin's men are shooting themselves dead on the frontline to escape the war in Ukraine

Irish Mirror · May 13, 2022

What the CIA thinks: William Burns on the new world disorder

Fifty years after Nixon’s cold war coup, the US is facing a new global realignment

Financial Times · May 13, 2022

Russian émigrés fleeing Putin’s war find freedom in the cafes of Armenia

Hundreds of thousands of Russians opposed to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and alienated by pro-war sentiment are establishing a new life abroad

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2022

Russia pushing for Irish Government to extend Ambassador Yury Filatov's visa

Exclusive: Yury Filatov’s visa and ID card is due to expire within weeks

Irish Mirror · May 13, 2022

Liz Truss tells G7 to keep sanctions until all Russian troops have left Ukraine

Ms Truss said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was ‘humiliating himself on the world stage’.

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Ukraine thwarts Russian forces at river, sees long fight ahead

Ukrainian forces destroyed parts of a Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video from Ukraine's military showed on Friday, as the Ukrainian defence minister predicted many weeks of grinding fighting ahead.

Reuters · May 13, 2022

Finland’s leaders endorse NATO bid; Russia issues threats and continues airstrikes on eastern Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — As Finland’s leaders dealt him a blow by announcing their support for joining NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his determination to maintain Moscow’s sway over eastern Ukraine as Russian missiles pounded the area.

Los Angeles Times · May 13, 2022

Putin ‘very ill with blood cancer says top oligarch caught in secret recording'

An oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin has been secretly recorded as saying that Vladimir Putin is "very ill with blood cancer" it is reported, with his identity not revealed for his safety

Daily Mirror · May 13, 2022