The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Growing list of war crime allegations as Russian troops branded 'worse than ISIS'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A bombshell report by Human Rights Watch today said evidence had been uncovered of "unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence" directed toward the Ukrainian population

Daily Mirror · Apr 3, 2022

Putin's war and the battle for democracy

Autocratic leaders are growing ever bolder, as Putin and Xi demonstrate — but Ukraine has changed the equation

Salon · Apr 3, 2022

Putin will ‘have one day to answer to God’ for acts of evil – former archbishop

John Sentamu spoke with the PA news agency after saying prayers for Ukraine outside the nation’s embassy in London.

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2022

‘It was like a movie’: recaptured Bucha recounts violence of Russian invasion

Claims of war crimes in the Ukraine city mount up as residents tell of a month of fear

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022

Patriarch urges soldiers to defend 'peace-loving' Russia amid Ukraine campaign

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church held a service for Russian soldiers on Sunday in which he called on them to defend their country "as only Russians can" as Moscow continues its military campaign in Ukraine.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2022

Killing of civilians in Bucha and Kyiv condemned as ‘terrible war crime’

Europe pledges further sanctions against Russia after reports of killing of scores of unarmed Ukrainians

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022

Russia must pay for 'war crimes' in Bucha, Germany says

Germany's Foreign Minister said on Sunday Russia must pay for its "war crimes" in the Ukrainian town of Bucha just outside the capital in the form of more severe sanctions, denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin's "uninhibited violence".

Reuters · Apr 3, 2022

One Siberian postcode has dozens of war dead - but mysteriously none in Moscow

Different parts of Russia have widely different numbers of war dead, according to the official record, raising questions about fatality estimates issued by the Kremlin during the invasion

Daily Mirror · Apr 3, 2022

Russian missiles hit oil refinery in Ukraine’s key port of Odesa

Russia says it has destroyed an oil processing plant and three fuel depots in the strategic port city

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2022

Hungarians flock to polls in vote overshadowed by Ukraine war as Orban seeks new term

The party of nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken the lead in partial results from the country's general election on Sunday, the national election office said.

France 24 · Apr 3, 2022