The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin could be impaled by his own manic delusion

Vladimir Putin has set himself a tight deadline to declare victory in Ukraine. He wants to turn Russia’s traditional Victory Day parade of May 9 in the Red Square, commemorating the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945, into his own personal triumph.

Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2022

Putin unlikely to face punishment for any war crimes in Ukraine

War crimes have been historically hard to prosecute.

Axios · Apr 5, 2022

‘I’m not scared of war any more’: Death and the Penguin author Andrey Kurkov on life in Kyiv

On a brief visit to London, the Ukrainian novelist talks about why he has no intention of leaving his country – or ever again visiting Russia – his mixed feelings about Zelenskiy, and how he is still keeping his sense of humour

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022

Britain says Ukrainian forces have retaken key northern terrain

Low-level fighting is likely to continue in some parts of newly-recaptured regions, UK says

The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2022

COUNTERPOINT: This is not the time for NATO expansion

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr’s “Serenity Prayer,” 1943

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

POINT: A second chance for NATO expansion

A genuinely realistic assessment of the NATO expansion process of the previous decades was that it did not go far enough, was not militarily serious enough, and that, while offering Moscow an open-ended opportunity to be part of the West, the alliance was prepared to return to the containment policies…

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin has his huge £75m superyacht seized by FBI

Owned by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, the 255-foot-long 'Tango' sails under a Cook Islands flag and is registered to a company based in the British Virgin Islands

Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2022

Kremlin says Bucha is 'monstrous forgery' aimed at smearing Russia

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western allegations Russian forces committed war crimes by executing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were a "monstrous forgery" aimed at denigrating the Russian army.

Reuters · Apr 5, 2022

President Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial after Bucha killings

US President Joe Biden has called for Vladimir Putin to face a war crimes trial after grim evidence emerged that Russian troops had massacred Ukrainian civilians in Bucha.

Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2022

Tuesday briefing: Fears of more atrocities in Ukraine grow

Zelenskiy to address UN security council after Bucha killings … Whitehall braces for Partygate fallout … and is this the beginning of the end for soap operas?

The Guardian - AU · Apr 5, 2022