Vladimir Putin

Moscow : Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country's deterrence forces to be placed on "a special mode of combat duty" in a meeting with top defense officials.Senior officials of leading NATO members issued "aggressive…

New Delhi : Ukrainian intelligence suggests Belarus is showing "readiness to maybe participate directly" in Russia's invasion, "in addition to allowing Russians to use their territory as well as letting them cross the border" into Ukraine,…

Kiev/Moscow : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday rejected Russia's offer of holding negotiations in Belarus, suggesting alternative cities including Budapest and Warsaw for talks.Zelensky made the remarks in a video address…

New Delhi : Vladimir Putin, an amateur historian, had forgotten one of the great lessons of the second world war that the best Soviet soldiers were Ukrainian, commentators have noted, The Guardian reported.Ukrainian officials have pointed…

New Delhi : There are signs that Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is not quite going as per the plan, The Guardian reported.It is too early to describe the Kremlin's operation to seize and subjugate Ukraine as a failure. The war has only…

New Delhi/Kiev : The US has sanctioned Vladimir Kiriyenko, CEO of VK Group which is the parent company of Russia's biggest social network VKontakte, and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.The US Department of the Treasury has…

Moscow : Amid increased sanctions imposed on Russia over its military invasion into Ukraine, the Russian space agency has announced suspension of Soyuz rocket launches, the media reported.Roscosmos has said that it is halting all…

New Delhi : The White House, along with the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Canada, announced that they would expel certain Russian banks from SWIFT, the high-security network that connects thousands of financial…

New Delhi : Ukraine landed a significant blow on Russia after it allegedly killed a large group of bloodthirsty Chechen special forces dispatched to assassinate the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky, Daily Mail reported.The armed group…

New Delhi : Ukraine President Zelensky remains standing, and has become a global hero for his brave dispatches from the front line while his would-be assassins' reported killings have brought huge disgrace and widespread grief to Chechnya,…