The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Russia has pulled out of an important cold war-era treaty which limited categories of conventional military equipment that Nato and the then-Warsaw Pact could deploy. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was intended to use the warming of relations between east and west to minimise the…

A senior Chinese military official is visiting Moscow and is hailing strong ties between the countries during a trip that underlined growing cooperation between them

The path to joining the bloc is not straightforward but most Ukrainians believe it should – and will – happen

Russian president’s forces ‘regrouping’ to attack Avdiivka after failed second wave of attacks, says Kyiv

Zelensky says Ukraine ‘will try to show results this year’ in counteroffensive

Leading Republican candidates share a similar stance of withdrawing the US from the international stage

Diplomacy is not doing well in the latest swirl of international crisis. The shells and rockets fall on Gaza, despite pleas for a “humanitarian pause” to let aid in for stricken families. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin this week officially ditches the nuclear test ban and conventional forces treaties.

I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose. But November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.

NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact

The Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe is aimed at preventing the massing of forces at or near mutual borders

Announcing formal exit, Moscow says expansion of US-led NATO had made the pact untenable.