Russian President Vladimir Putin said the next generation of the country's political leadership must be veterans of the Ukraine war. Putin made the comments during a meeting with different factions of the Russian State Duma and spoke of the participation of Ukraine war veterans in elections.

Without firing a shot, Putin has over the past week managed to bring the war in Ukraine to NATO’s European borders.

Even if the guns fall silent in Ukraine, Russia’s economy may never step off the battlefield.Years of massive defense outlays have locked the country in a state of militarization that’s transformed factories and sucked in hundreds of thousands of workers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow will adhere to nuclear arms limits for one more year after the last remaining nuclear pact with the U.S. expires.

Ukrainian missiles hit an oil pumping station in Russia's Chuvashia region on Saturday, suspending its services, a Ukrainian security official said, as the relentless attacks have left Russians facing

US President Donald Trump has stated that the slow pace of Russia's occupation of Ukraine, despite large-scale bombardments of Ukrainian cities, is damaging Russia's reputation. He has stressed that the actions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin have led to significant human losses and destruction but have not brought the end of the war any closer.

A Russian official fired back at President Donald Trump with a bizarre comparison after Trump mocked the country’s military in a social media post on Tuesday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov disputed Trump’s characterization that Russia is a “paper tiger” during an interview with Russian-state media,

Yet rather than face decline, Moscow has doubled down on destabilization. War is the most obvious expression of that pattern, but not the only one. Interventions in Africa, the Middle East and cyberspace are less the moves of a rising power than the flailing of a falling one.

The economic fallout is squeezing the Kremlin's wartime finances — and Moscow's financial backbone.

Vladimir Putin will not see any reason to be deterred from a war with the West were the US not involved, an expert has warned, with war against Russia branded 'inevitable'