Putin also directly compared his ongoing war in Ukraine to the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, which is what Victory Day commemorates. He claimed that Russia "once again" was fighting for "civilization" and he painted a topsy-turvy picture that Moscow wants peace with all ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Russia is prepared to take "military-technical measures" in response to "unfriendly" Western actions over the Ukraine conflict in a sharp escalation of rhetoric. "In the event of the continuation of the obviously aggressive stance by...
a line disputed, unusually, by Putin's close ally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who said the attackers originally fled toward Belarus but had been forced to change direction, toward Ukraine, because of Belarus' enhanced security measures. ...
Putin: Russia Ready to Keep Gas Transit Via Ukraine, but Kyiv Rejects Deal Extension More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia ...
2023. Putin, who is all but certain to win another six-year term in the March 15-17 presidential election, has sought to consolidate public support by casting the conflict as a fight against the expansionist West that has armed Ukraine in a bid to weaken Russia. (Alexey Maishev, Sputnik...
Putin added that the issue of NATO enlargement is largely artificial, and is being used by the United States as a foreign policy tool. - - - - Russia and Ukraine have reached an agreement on the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the Russian...
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with visiting United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Putin told Guterres that the Ukrainian issue arose after the 2014 "unconstitutional coup" in Kiev and people in Donbass...
Moscow's forces were repelled in their attempts to conquer the key city when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine two years ago, but with Kyiv weakened by the shortage of weapons from its Western allies, Vladimir Putin is trying again....
Putin: 'They are blaming us' Putin also hit back at what he described as false accusations that the war in Ukraine, and resultant implications for supply chains and commodity markets, were responsible for the worsening global economic landscape. ...
News about Russia invading Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin first ordered Russian troops to attack the European country in 2022.