The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Live updates: Kyiv residents urged to shelter amid fighting

Kyiv officials are warning residents that street fighting is underway against Russian forces, and they are urging people to seek shelter

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2022

Japan-Russia negotiations on northern territories back to square one

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has effectively shunted negotiations on a formal Japan-Russia peace treaty and issues related to the northern territories back to square one.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Feb 26, 2022

China is Russia's best hope to blunt sanctions, but wary

China is the only friend that might help Russia blunt the impact of economic sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but President Xi Jinping’s government is giving no sign it might be willing to risk its own access to U.S. and European markets by doing too much

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2022

Russia-West relations at ‘point of no return’, says Moscow

Sanctions against Russian president Vladimir Putin show ‘complete impotency’ of West’s foreign policy, official adds

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2022

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | Ukraine crisis: can India keep walking the balance?

What makes India’s balance of relations difficult?

The Hindu · Feb 26, 2022

Western sanctions target Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs over Ukraine invasion

The US, UK and EU are now directly targeting the Russian leader with sanctions, while Australia targets eight of the country's oligarchs.

ABC News · Feb 26, 2022

Western allies to expel key Russian banks from global system; Ukraine vows to fight on

Western allies announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow on Saturday, including kicking key Russian banks off the main global payments system, as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.

Reuters · Feb 26, 2022

Baby born in Ukrainian air raid shelter as terrified families flee shelling

A healthy newborn baby called Mia has been pictured in a Ukrainian air raid shelter where families have been sheltering from Russian military fire in the capital Kyiv

Daily Mirror · Feb 26, 2022

Russian invasion of Ukraine enters third day: What we know so far

Reports of artillery blasts in Kyiv as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warns of impending Russian assault on the capital.

Al Jazeera · Feb 26, 2022

Russia-Ukraine crisis: US Treasury imposes sanctions against Putin, other leaders

US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday (local time) sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and members of Russia's Security Council in response to Russia's "unjustified, unprovoked and premediated" invasion of Ukraine.

Dynamite News · Feb 26, 2022