"I think this was also a question of them cutting their losses [and] realising that they couldn't bear the pain of backing Assad." So, Vladimir Putin appears to have done the unthinkable ...

President-elect Donald Trump refused to answer a question on whether or not he’s spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin since he was elected over a month ago. Trump sat for a wide-ranging ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to talk about peace plans for Ukraine. “I had an hour-long phone conversation this morning with President ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria represents a personal defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a potentially serious strategic setback for his military that undermines Moscow’s ...

Russians are warning Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, with some men even saying they will refuse to take up arms. Every year since 2001, the Kremlin has allowed citizens to call in and ...

In the background, with the usual implausible deniability, you can make out a shadow that looks a lot like Russian President Vladimir Putin. The stakes in next Sunday's second round presidential ...

VLADIMIR Putin has ordered Russian officials to start preparing how he is going to spin his calamitous Ukrainian war into a "victory". Russia's presidential office has ordered its cronies to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending as the war in Ukraine drains resources from ...

Konstantin Malofeyev, a Russian tycoon who is subject to western sanctions, told the Financial Times that President Vladimir Putin was likely to reject a peace plan proposal by Trump’s recently ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine. Around 32.5 percent of ...