Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy - Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, at the Kremlin in Moscow on 30 September, 2022.

Putin accuses West of 'explosions' that caused Nord Stream leaks

"Sanctions are not enough for the West, they have switched to sabotage. Unbelievable, but it is a fact!" Putin said during a televised speech at a Kremlin ceremony to annex four Moscow-occupied ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Vladimir Saldo, Yevgeny Balitsky, who are the Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, attend a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that were condemned by Kyiv and governments worldwide, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, 30 September, 2022.

Putin signs treaties to annex Ukrainian lands

The ceremony took place three days after the completion of hastily staged so-called referendums in which Moscow's proxies in the occupied regions claimed majorities of up to 99 per cent in favour of ...

U.S. president Joe Biden sits next to Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he delivers remarks at the U.S.- Pacific Island Country Summit at the State Department in Washington, U.S. on 29 September, 2022

US will ‘never, never, never’ recognise Russia claims in Ukraine: Biden

The Kremlin said that the annexation of four parts of Ukraine would be formally announced on Friday, with Putin delivering a speech

This handout picture released on on 21 September, 2022 by the Kremlin shows Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during a televised address to the nation in Moscow

Putin to host Kremlin ceremony annexing parts of Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to host a Kremlin ceremony on Friday annexing four regions of Ukraine, while his Ukrainian counterpart said Putin would have to be stopped for Russia to avoid ...

Young men and other people wait for their bus to arrive after they passed the passport check at the Vaalimaa check point, Finland, on the border with the Russian Federation on 28 September, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war Fleeing Russians worry border will 'close forever'

Fearing the border may close "forever" after President Vladimir Putin's mobilisation order for the war in Ukraine, Russians are rushing to flee across Finland's Vaalimaa crossing

This handout picture released on on 21 September, 2022 by the Kremlin shows Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during a televised address to the nation in Moscow

Putin to proclaim annexation of Ukraine territory within days

Moscow releases what it calls vote tallies showing support for four partially occupied provinces to join Russia

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China, India call for negotiated way out of Ukraine war

China and India has called at the United Nations for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war, stopping short of robust support for traditional ally Russia

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Edward Snowden gets Russian citizenship

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the ...

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on 16 September, 2022

Zelenskiy doesn’t think Putin is bluffing over nuclear arms

The Ukrainian president said Russian strikes on or near two Ukrainian nuclear plants could be considered “contemporary use of nuclear weapons or nuclear blackmail”

A Ukrainian soldier looks up to the sky after hearing the sound of a drone during a patrol in the frontline city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on 24 September, 2022

Ukraine's Odessa again attacked by Iranian drones

Ukraine said Sunday that the southern port city of Odessa was attacked by Iranian-made drones overnight, two days after a Russian attack with such a weapon killed two civilians

Police officers detain a man in Moscow on 24 September, 2022, following calls to protest against the partial mobilisation announced by the Russian president

Russia stiffens penalty for surrender

Russia on Saturday toughened penalties for voluntary surrender and refusal to fight with up to 10 years imprisonment and replaced its top logistics general after a series of setbacks to its ...

A refugee from Ukraine casts a ballot in a referendum at a polling station in Rostov-on-Don on 24 September, 2022, as Moscow-held regions of Ukraine vote in annexation referendums that Kyiv and its allies say are illegal and illegitimate

Russia replaces top general, pursues breakaway Ukraine polls

Moscow replaced its top logistics general on Saturday after a series of setbacks as Kremlin-held regions of eastern and southern Ukraine voted for a second day on becoming part of Russia

Denis, 9-years-old, waits in a wheelbarrow with a box holding 12 kilos (26 pounds) of basic food provisions enough to feed one person for one month during a food rations in the former frontline village of Lebyazhe on 22 September, 2022

Russia holds breakaway polls in Ukraine

The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed as a sham by Kyiv’s Western allies

Volunteers take part in training during courses with The Mozart Group, in the Donetsk region on 22 September, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

10,000 volunteer for Ukraine fight in 24 hrs: Russia

Amateur footage posted on social media since Putin made the announcement has purported to show hundreds of Russian citizens across the country responding to military summons

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint news briefing with Poland's president Andrzej Duda, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on 23 August, 2022.

Zelenskiy accuses Russia of war crimes, sees no early end to war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine’s northeast and said it was too early to say the tide of the war was turning despite rapid territorial gains ...

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