The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

UK to send anti-aircraft missile vehicles to Ukraine as Russians attack country's east

The Stormer vehicles can launch the Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles

Wales Online · Apr 19, 2022

Russia begins ‘new phase of the war’ as Battle for Donbas begins

Ukraine says it will be able to repel Russia’s attacks in the east

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Editorial: Defeat makes Russia dangerous, but world must maintain support for Ukraine

If a shrewd Kremlin military analyst had drawn up a list of objectives for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reality of this horrific misadventure is more or less the photo negative of that. Rather than a quick and decisive march to Kyiv, the Russian military has alternately been bogged down…

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

The war crime that goes mostly unpunished

The dark red billboards in the Ukrainian city of Lviv present a powerful image: Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his knees, a woman stands above him and pushes a gun into his mouth. The caption reads: “I am not a beauty for you.”

Bangkok Post · Apr 19, 2022

Debt default may complicate Putin's war

Russia had an April 4 deadline to pay about $650 million in interest and principle to the holders of two bonds

Salon · Apr 19, 2022

Commentary: For a US-led global order to survive, America must lead by example

For globalization to survive the war in Ukraine, the United States must do better and be better. It is unclear whether the world’s greatest democracy has the wherewithal to manage this.

Chicago Tribune · Apr 19, 2022

Commentary: A carefully crafted narrative of war was a tool of the Soviet Union. The lies have never stopped

Whenever as a child I came upon a description of people living their daily life during the 1940s, I reacted with disbelief. How can this be, when millions in Europe were experiencing incomprehensible horror? It felt inconceivable.

Chicago Tribune · Apr 19, 2022

Ukraine: Where is Donbas, and what are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions in Donbas declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Russia accused of using ‘bunker buster’ bombs to kill remaining Mariupol troops

Around 1,000 civilians were still hiding in shelters beneath a steel plant in the besieged city, officials have said

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2022

Exact time Putin will 'probably' resort to nuclear weapons as former Russian minister speaks out on war

Andrei Kozyrev, who served under Vladimir Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, played down the fears that the current Russian President will unleash the country's nuclear forces imminently.

Daily Record · Apr 19, 2022