ON Ukraine’s bloody frontline, Russian soldiers face certain death as they are poured into Vladimir Putin’s meatgrinder war every day. But as his population dwindles amid increasingly

Donald Trump said he still wants to meet with Vladimir Putin in Budapest and that he believes the war in Ukraine will be resolved soon.

US President Donald Trump said he still favours Budapest as the site of a potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine, though both Washington and the Kremlin have made clear that no talks are imminent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his top officials on Wednesday to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear weapons, something Moscow has not done since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain and opposition threats mount in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given state awards to the developers of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater torpedo, the latest signal in what analysts have cast as efforts by the Kremlin to discourage the West from supporting Ukraine.

Kira Yurasova, 11, met with Vladimir Putin on Red Square in Moscow and questioned him over the treatment of her uncle, who was wounded in the Russia-Ukraine war

One in six Russian adults takes a dimmer view of President Vladimir Putin after watching a video investigation by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny that links a luxury palace to the Russian leader,

Vladimir Putin has deliberately sidelined his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov amid claims that he torpedoed a summit with Donald Trump, according to a report. Lavrov was “deliberately absent” from a meeting of Russia’s security council on proposals to resume nuclear testing on Wednesday, a source told Russian outlet Kommersant.