A video shared on X by the Belarusian media outlet NEXTA showed Putin, 73, failing to realize that the intercom he was using was one-way while asking the sailors if they could hear him.

Putin’s other nuclear arsenal is spreading quietly across the world. It gives Moscow something warheads never could.

Vladimir Putin declared full solidarity with Iran as an expert said both nations "need each other desperately" during the escalating U.S.-Iran conflict.

Vladimir Putin has got a new headache to contend with as Ukraine launches a campaign to shut down Russia’s commercial airspace. The 73-year-old dictator is getting a taste of his own medicine in his war on Ukraine,

Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the West for failing to speak out about what he termed Kiev's "state terrorism" as he spoke to the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Thursday, amid the

President Vladimir Putin said on ⁠Tuesday ⁠that Russia was winning the war in ⁠Ukraine and portrayed the Ukrainian leadership as "terrorists" with whom Moscow could not negotiate. Putin, in his most detailed ​comments on the war for many weeks,

Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The seizure on Wednesday is part of a global effort by Ukraine’s Naftogaz to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award over Ukrainian assets Russia appropriated after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian airspace will be "effectively closing" amid escalating drone strikes.

The war has become a ruinous contest of drone and missile attacks that, while devastating to Ukraine, are inflicting visible damage on Russia too. But Mr Putin shows no sign of backing off. The worry is that he may try to escape from what Russians call a tupik (dead-end) as he has in the past: by finding some new way to escalate the conflict.

Independent Russian investigations outlet Important Stories reported in May that Putin had stepped up his own security to an extent not seen before amid assassination fears. It said that the Kremlin was on high alert, particularly over the possibility of weaponized drones being used to target him.