The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Ukraine MPs say Russian troops are raping and hanging women over 60 in tide of violence

Their distressing accounts come days after Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Vladimir Putin’s troops of committing sex attack as they invaded cities.

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2022

Russian assault on well-defended Kyiv would be 'costly business' western officials declare

With Vladimir Putin’s forces bogged down 20km outside the capital western defence analysts are beginning to doubt if the Ukrainian capital can be fully encircled and assaulted.

Daily Record · Mar 17, 2022

Very big gap remains in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine -Western officials

Ukraine and Russia are taking peace talks seriously but a very big gap remains between the two sides, Western officials said on Thursday, adding Russian President Vladimir Putin did not seem in the mood to compromise.

Reuters · Mar 17, 2022

Putin's declassified spy record - and odd failure on intelligence evaluation

In his autobiography, his Russian KGB examiner Mikhail Frolov discussed his first impressions of the former President, alongside an intelligence evaluation he underwent

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene parrots Russian propaganda claim that Ukraine’s 2014 revolution was US-backed coup

Russian propaganda sources frequently characterise Ukraine’s 2014 ‘Revolution of Dignity’ as an illegitimate US-backed coup

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2022

Ukraine’s Mariupol: a rare dispatch from a city under Russian siege; despair, death everywhere

Families have been told to leave their dead in the streets because it’s too dangerous to hold funerals. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of Russia President Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush democratic Ukraine — and also of a fierce resistance on the ground.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 17, 2022

Vladimir Putin accused of war crimes as school and theatre are hit in Ukraine

British foreign secretary says there is ‘very strong evidence’, and France says Putin is only pretending to negotiate

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2022

In call with Putin, Erdogan offers to host him and Zelenskiy for talks

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan offered in a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday to host him and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy for talks, according to his office.

Reuters · Mar 17, 2022

Could Britain win a modern war? Key questions as Putin watches UK's 'terrible error'

As Russia's invasion into Ukraine comes to the end of its third week, there are fears the conflict may spill beyond the country's borders and the UK's own capability to protect and defend itself

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2022

Captured Russian calls bombing of maternity hospital 'most perverse f**king neo-Nazism’

Russian troops have spoken out after President Vladimir Putin lied to his citizens telling them the invasion of Ukraine is a special operation to rid the country of neo-Nazism

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2022