As Russia advances and Ukraine’s manpower decreases,the US and its allies are getting ready to do more to stop the war.
Putin’s two-day state visit to one of his strongest allies comes just as his country’s forces pressed an offensive in the most significant border incursion since the full-scale Ukraine invasion began.
Longtime defence minister Sergei Shoigu is being replaced but - in a way calibrated not to suggest seismic changes amid Russia’s protracted war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities said they arrested two officers in the agency responsible for protecting senior government leaders and accused them of developing the assassination plot.
The gold price is behaving very strangely,but there is a simple explanation.
The drills are a response to “provocative statements and threats of certain Western officials regarding the Russian Federation,” the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Vladimir Putin is throwing everything he has got at ramping up Russia’s war machine. But it does not include one previously reliable source of cash.
Investor James Baillieu,the nephew of former premier Ted Baillieu,says the war in Ukraine has been wiped off the news cycle and the Australian government doesn’t care.
Bomb sniffing dog Patron is now so popular in Ukraine that he’s inspired hit songs,an animated YouTube series and various forms of fan art.
Some of the world’s biggest banks are now generating far more money in Russia than they were before the war started. It is shameful.
The French president told The Economist that governments will need to act if Vladimir Putin makes a significant breakthrough in the coming months.