The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Boris Johnson says Putin is 'doubling down' with more destruction in Ukraine

The prime minister believes that Vladimir Putin has reached a point where he feels he has "no way out" in Ukraine and so has decided to "double down" with more destruction

Daily Mirror · Mar 5, 2022

Test for Putin: Public messaging on Russian military casualties in Ukraine

Back in the Soviet era, the Kremlin had a simple strategy for dealing with combat casualties in messy foreign wars like the one in Afghanistan: near silence on the subject.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 5, 2022

West ramps up support for Ukraine but refuses its main ask: A no-fly zone

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces pressed their offensive against key Ukrainian cities Friday in a heavy bombing and shelling campaign that has led to a ballooning humanitarian disaster, spurred a growing exodus of people and raised fears of a wider calamity after Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant was set ablaze.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 5, 2022

¿Rusia llevará a Ucrania su guerra contra las personas LGBTQ?

Ze Faámelu quiere escapar de la guerra en Ucrania, pero su identidad no se lo permite.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 4, 2022

Mike Pence refutes Trump in speech condemning Putin ‘apologists’ in GOP, calls for end to ‘relitigating’ 2020 election

‘We cannot win by fighting yesterday’s battles, or by relitigating the past’

The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2022

Chronically-ill kids escape Ukraine in makeshift 'hospital train' amid Russian bombing

The chronically ill Ukrainian children and their mums packed into the transformed train wagon, which allowed them to receive treatment as they fled to Poland

Daily Mirror · Mar 4, 2022

‘Well, we usually don’t start wars’: Finnish president quips as Biden suggests ‘everything should be left to Nordic countries’

While traditionally seen as a neutral party between Russian and the West, Finland is now actively considering joining Nato in defiance of threats from Vladimir Putin

The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2022

‘The world’s greatest dirty money laundromat’: How America’s financial secrecy laws enabled Russian oligarchs to hide their wealth

Expert on kleptocracy says US needs to clean up anonymity laws to find oligarch wealth. Richard Hall reports

The Independent UK · Mar 4, 2022

Meet Russia’s oligarchs, a group of men who won't be toppling Putin anytime soon

U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders are setting their sights on Russia’s oligarchs as they seek new ways to punish Vladimir Putin – and those who have enabled him and profited from his reign – for waging war in Ukraine.

The Conversation · Mar 4, 2022

Vladimir Putin bizarrely denies his Russian forces are bombing Ukrainian cities

Russian President Vladimir Putin brazenly lied to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a call on Friday saying that reports of Moscow bombing Ukrainian cities were "fake"

Daily Mirror · Mar 4, 2022