The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Ukrainian forces brace for bloody fight for Kherson

Oleh, the commander of a Ukrainian mechanized infantry unit dug into trenches west of Kherson, is confident his Russian foes will be forced to abandon the strategic port by winter weather, logistical logjams and the threat of encirclement.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Outspoken Putin ally Prigozhin's St Petersburg defence tech centre opens

Russia's Wagner Group, a private militia controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, opened a military technology centre in St. Petersburg on Friday, the latest move by the Putin ally who has criticized the Kremlin's defence top brass over the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Kyiv residents snap up new stamp celebrating Crimean bridge blast

Residents in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday snapped up a new postage stamp commemorating a blast that damaged a major bridge linking Russia to Crimea in a blow to the prestige of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Putin Says West Sows Nonsense about History

President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the West had hammered historical nonsense into the heads of millions of people, including about the real course of World War Two and the Soviet Union's role in the victory over Nazi Germany. Without citing evidence, Putin repeated a claim that Poland has not…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 4, 2022

Putin says West sows nonsense about history

President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the West had hammered historical nonsense into the heads of millions of people, including about the real course of World War Two and the Soviet Union's role in the victory over Nazi Germany.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s 'deranged' deputy claims Ukraine war 'is sacred conflict with Satan'

Dmitry Medvedev said Ukrainian troops were "crazy Nazi drug addicts" and those fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation in Vladimir Putin's war were "cowardly traitors and greedy defectors"

Daily Mirror · Nov 4, 2022

Sixty years ago, true statecraft avoided a nuclear war. We need that again over Ukraine

The danger of a quick slide into all-out nuclear war between Russia and the US is less, but in other ways the risk we face is more alarming, says author and former Moscow correspondent Jonathan Steele

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2022

Ukraine zoo turns to donations and emergency generators to keep ‘traumatised’ animals warm

Shellshocked animals in a war-torn Ukrainian zoo are having to rely on donations to survive the bleak winter as Vladimir Putin’s rocket strikes devastate Kyiv’s energy infrastructure.

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022

Vladimir Putin says civilians must be evacuated from Kherson war zone

Russia digs in in preparation for expected attempt by Ukraine to take key southern city, setting scene for possible ferocious battle

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2022