The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

With fast-track passports, Russia extends clout in Ukraine

Since 2019, some 720,000 residents of areas in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia-backed rebels have received Russian passports in a fast-track procedure widely seen as an attempt to underscore Russia’s influence in the region

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2022

Britain says Russia's Putin could drag out Ukraine crisis for months

Russian President Vladimir Putin could drag out the Ukraine crisis for months in an attempt to challenge Western unity, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.

Reuters · Feb 17, 2022

This 1946 telegram predicts much of Russia’s 21st-century foreign policy

Somehow, an American diplomat foresaw thoroughly contemporary innovations like troll farms

Financial Times · Feb 17, 2022

US and NATO remain skeptical of Russian claims of troop withdrawals

KYIV, Ukraine — American and European officials cast doubt Wednesday on Russia’s claims that it was withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border in an apparent attempt to defuse tensions that have unsettled the region and rekindled a Cold War-style standoff with the West.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 16, 2022

Morning mail: Nato says no signs of Russian de-escalation, tax cuts would ‘favour men’, Sydney shark attack

Thursday: Secretary general of military alliance contradicts Vladimir Putin’s claim of a partial withdrawal of troops from Ukraine’s border. Plus: sadness as Bob Hawke’s watering hole set to close

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2022

NATO, US say Russia is still building up troops near Ukraine

NATO allies question Putin’s stated desire to negotiate a solution to the crisis as Ukraine marks ‘Day of Unity’.

Al Jazeera · Feb 16, 2022

US and UK trying to fend off Russian invasion by making intelligence public

Washington and London holding regular briefings and hoping to rob Putin of element of surprise

The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2022

Putin hosts leader of Brazil for talks amid Ukraine crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro for talks in Moscow and hailed ties between the two countries, which he described as “friendship and mutual understanding.”

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2022

Ukrainian families living in Britain fear for relatives and friends still in country

Lidiia Nicholls is worried for her mother Nataliya, 59, who is in Ukraine at the moment. She said the situation in the country is 'very, very dangerous', adding that 'Ukrainians are very patriotic'

Daily Mirror · Feb 16, 2022

The Russia-Ukraine crisis is squeezing Central Asian economies

Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan depend on migrant remittances from Russia.

Al Jazeera · Feb 16, 2022