The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Footballer in Spain vows to pause career to go to war for Ukraine against Russia

Russia declared war on Ukraine on Thursday with the situation in the nation deteriorating with plenty of ramifications across the world of football and particularly Ukrainian nationals

Daily Mirror · Feb 25, 2022

Ukraine crisis: What the papers say

Newspapers in the UK and around the world are leading on the conflict

Wales Online · Feb 25, 2022

List of charities you can give to help people in Ukraine as Russia murders civilians

People around the world will feel helpless watching on in horror as the Russian war develops in Ukraine. There are several charities providing support for stricken refugees and injured people

Daily Mirror · Feb 25, 2022

India's PM Modi telephones Putin over 16,000 Indians stuck in Ukraine warzone

India went into overdrive overnight to try and evacuate thousands of its citizens, mostly students from cities in Ukraine. It also sent officials to frontline borders of the war-locked country to carve out a safe passage as desperation grew at home.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 25, 2022

Editorial: The US couldn’t stop Russia from attacking Ukraine — but it can make it pay

The most conspicuous victims of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine are the people who will lose their lives in defending their country against a brutal (and nuclear-armed) neighbor. But Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a many-pronged attack — an audacious operation the United States predicted but was unable to prevent…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 25, 2022

Editorial: US should prepare for Russian cyber warfare

Historically, “national defense” meant uniformed soldiers and sailors and pilots in tanks, ships and planes. But in warding off Moscow’s coming blows against the U.S. as the West lays on punishing sanctions on Vladimir Putin and Russia for gobbling up parts of Ukraine, our “defense” will fall as much to…

Tribune News Service · Feb 25, 2022

Michael Hiltzik: Can sanctions stop Russia? History says it will take time

Russia is on the verge of becoming a pariah state. With its attack on Ukraine, it faces a future of diplomatic isolation, economic devastation and nearly universal moral condemnation.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 25, 2022

Commentary: Putin can safely ignore Russian critics of his war — for now

The day before the fake “referendum” that handed Crimea to Vladimir Putin’s Russia in 2014, I marched against the annexation with tens of thousands of other Muscovites — but a majority of Russians supported the move, and Putin’s popularity, measured by independent sociologists, soared to highs not seen before or…

Tribune News Service · Feb 25, 2022

Tom Tugendhat MP: The free world must work together to make tyrants pay

Russia’s President Putin has committed a crime. His own country charged Nazi criminals with waging an aggressive war and the same charge now sits as Criminal Code Article 353 — Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression. The maximum penalty is 20 years in prison.

Evening Standard · Feb 25, 2022

Russia 'pretend' sanctions spark claims of 'disgrace' as Ukraine demands tougher action

Former EU chief Donald Tusk said countries like Germany had 'disgraced themselves' after Britain, the US and EU all announced sanctions on Russia - but failed to ban Moscow from using the SWIFT bank system

Daily Mirror · Feb 25, 2022