Perspective: Ukrainian drones set the Kapotnya refinery alight. A falling market is deflating Russia's other cushion.

The warning of a brewing revolution comes as the dictator appears out of touch amid mammoth fuel queues with Russians forced to wait at filling stations for up to 14 hours

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his fifth wartime economic conference in St. Petersburg, with his government struggling for a growth strategy as Ukrainian drone attacks hit the economy and businesses see ​no end to the war. He suggested Romania offer drone fragments for Moscow to conduct its own probe.

News of the damage must surely have found its way into the most isolated of bunkers.

Even Russia’s leading warmonger has run out of ways to justify the Ukraine invasion.

When Vladimir Putin emerged from the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Kazan, a city in south-west Russia, he was greeted by well-wishers keen to shake his hand and tell him what a good job he was

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An investigation reveals that the Kremlin has repeatedly misled the public about the location of President Vladimir Putin, who uses three nearly identical offices in different parts of the country. Systema, RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit, identified ...

Since the beginning of September, Russia has sent dozens of drones into European airspace. In response, NATO governments have briefly shut down civilian airports, scrambled fighter jets, and invoked NATO’s Article 4—calling for formal consultations ...

In chess, there’s a move called a fork. You attack two pieces at once, forcing the hand of your counterpart. Russian President Vladimir Putin relishes opportunities to fork his enemies. He recently told President Trump that his Valdai residence had been ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Russia is advancing on all fronts in Ukraine and showed no sign of conciliation at the start of his annual press event. Putin highlighted battles in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk, but Ukraine disputes his claims and says it ...

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is willing to hold peace talks with Ukraine, but only on the basis of the terms agreed during the negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, which were widely