05/02/2023 Putin promised he would not to kill Zelenskyy, according to former Israeli prime minster who secretly met with the Russian leaderFormer Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett posted a five-hour-long YouTube video where he shared his experience mediating the invasion of Ukraine.
03/02/2023 CIA chief says Ukraine needs to puncture ‘Putin’s hubris’ in the next 6 monthsThe CIA chief said Ukraine needs to show Putin that Russia won’t gain any more territory and is at risk of losing ground in occupied regions.
02/02/2023 Even North Korea — one of Putin’s last remaining allies — is backing away from helping Russia with its disastrous war with UkraineNorth Korea had planned to send workers to help Russia rebuild occupied parts of eastern Ukraine in November, Daily NK reported.
02/02/2023 Putin says Russia faces German tanks, just like at Stalingrad, but hints that this time Moscow has nukes"Again and again we have to repel the aggression of the collective West," Putin said as Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine continues.
02/02/2023 Tucker Carlson is infecting the minds of Republicans over Vladimir Putin, former UK PM Boris Johnson saysFormer UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he’s "horrified" by how the Fox News host is able to distort Republican perspectives on Vladimir Putin.
01/02/2023 A captured member of the infamous Wagner Group said he is more ‘afraid of Putin’ than dying in battle, Ukrainian soldier reveals"We’re afraid of Putin," the Ukrainian soldier revealed the man said when answering whether he was afraid to fight for freedom in Russia.
31/01/2023 NATO chief warns that Putin winning in Ukraine would signal to China it can achieve its goals through ‘brute force’"Beijing is watching closely. And learning lessons that may influence its future decisions," NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned.
30/01/2023 Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an ‘extraordinary’ phone call weeks before Russia’s invasion of UkraineThe former British prime minister said he spoke with Putin weeks before he invaded Ukraine and tried to persuade the Russian president to stand down.
29/01/2023 Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Putin believes it’s his ‘destiny’ to ‘recreate the Russian Empire’"He is obsessed with retaking Ukraine," former Secretary Gates said of Putin, who launched the war in Ukraine last February. "He will hang in there."
28/01/2023 Russia faces new sanctions on its energy exports – but this time China and India may not come to Putin’s rescueNot only are China and India unlikely to buy Russian fuels that were once sold to the EU, they could also export their own fuels to Europe.
27/01/2023 Ukrainian agent accused of spying for Putin was found with stacks of foreign cash and Russian SIM cards, officials sayThe lieutenant colonel used a phone to take photos of documents and send them to Russian handlers via email, Ukraine’s Security Service said.
24/01/2023 Indian police are looking into the death of a Russian sausage magnate critical of Putin’s war in Ukraine, who died after an alcohol-fueled trip in the junglePavel Antov’s travel companion also died just 2 days prior, the latest in a line of wealthy Putin critics who mysteriously died since the war began.
23/01/2023 Putin’s favorite mercenary leader may be preparing to justify a failure in UkraineDespite Wagner Group’s struggles in Ukraine, the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, may only "double down" on his feud with Russia’s military leaders.
22/01/2023 ‘Stalin’ said he disagreed with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. We ‘spoke’ to dead historical figures using a new AI chatbot that experts are sounding the alarm over.Experts say the Historical Figures app, which allows you to "talk" to top Nazis from Hitler’s Third Reich, could "provide fodder for bigots."
21/01/2023 The company used by Putin to put 50,000 Russian mercenaries in Ukraine will be deemed a ‘transnational criminal organization’ by the USThe move will open up "additional avenues" to pursue the Wagner Group’s global supply of cash and weapons, the White House said on Friday.
20/01/2023 Ron Klain says Putin using a nuclear weapon is ‘not impossible to imagine’ and Biden is preparing for the possibility, bookBiden is "’very focused on being prepared in case Putin does it, and trying to figure out what we can do to deter him…’" Klain told the author in October.
20/01/2023 A spat over whether Russian troops can grow beards is a telling clue about the state of Putin’s forces at a critical momentA push for clean-shaven soldiers is likely a key test of Russian forces, but the Wagner Group mercenaries and others aren’t falling in line.
18/01/2023 Putin’s desperate for a win, and he’s throwing troops at some of Ukraine’s toughest defenses to get it, former general saysRussia’s war in Ukraine is approaching its one-year anniversary. A senior US military official said fighting near Bakhmut was "severe and savage."
17/01/2023 Russian embassy accidentally shares map ignoring Putin’s bogus land claims in UkraineThe map tweeted by Russia’s embassy in Sweden showed regions Putin illegally annexed, including Crimea, as part of Ukraine.
17/01/2023 State media reports Russia has built its first batch of Poseidon doomsday torpedoes, one of Putin’s ‘super weapons’The Poseidon is sometimes referred to as a "doomsday" system because its payload could potentially trigger a radioactive tsunami, assuming it works.
16/01/2023 Actor who starred in one of Putin’s favorite movies says he’s now prepared to fight for Ukraine and kill Russian soldiersArtur Smolyaninov, who has been described as Russia’s "Rambo", told Novaya Gazeta that he has "nothing but hatred" for his homeland.
15/01/2023 Putin was so worried about a conflict with the West that he basically ended up starting one, former US Army general saysPutin has had a long-standing "fear" about a "coming war with the West" and that worry "encouraged" him to invade Ukraine, a former US general said.
13/01/2023 A Chinese official said ‘Putin is crazy’ but Beijing may be trying to have it both ways by distancing itself from the Ukraine war while still supporting Russia financiallyChina may be trying to maintain its relationships with the West even while continuing to buy up Russian energy, one historian told Insider.