Tag Archives: Putins

Going into the winter, military analysts expected that the fighting in Ukraine would slow down as wet and snowy terrain made it too difficult for either Russia or Ukraine to make major offensive pushes. Sure enough, the territorial lines have remained largely the same since a successful Ukrainian offensive in …

Editor’s Note: The award-winning CNN Film “Navalny” airs on CNN this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. You can also watch now on CNNgo and HBO Max. CNN  —  Surviving President Vladimir Putin’s poisoners was just a warm-up, not a warning, for Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. But his defiance, according …

Hundreds of Russian mobilised troops were killed in a Ukrainian HIMARS strike on a barracks in Russian-occupied Makiivka in the eastern Donbas region, minutes before midnight on December 31.  The attack happened as Russian missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv, Ukraine at the exact moment Russian president Vladimir Putin …

In a nine-minute message – the longest New Year’s address of his 20 year rule, President Vladimir Putin accused the West of lying to Russia and provoking Moscow to launch what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine.   In the video message broadcasted on Russian state TV, Putin …

Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed from Wikipedia for weapons they barely know how to use. Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed from Wikipedia for weapons they barely know how to use. They plod through Ukraine …

A Russian man set himself ablaze to avoid being conscripted into the war with Ukraine.   The man went to the Ryazan bus station in the southeastern city of Ryazan and lit himself on fire on Monday, September 26.   This comes less than a week after President Vladimir Putin announced …

A smiling Vladimir Putin was unable to stop his legs from twitching uncontrollably while he cracked a bizarre joke about having a “rubber bum”  to Russian schoolchildren in the exclave territory of Kaliningrad. The pupils who had been ordered to quarantine for 14 days before they could meet Putin, appeared baffled …

Currently, 1,000 Russians can apply for Finnish visas each day, but as of September 1 that number will drop to 500. Jussi Tanner, director general for consular services at Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told CNN that a maximum of 20% of those slots will be allocated for tourist visas, …

Videos have emerged of the moment a Russian ice hockey star who signed a million-dollar contract with an American team was rounded up by Russian policemen and taken to an army enlistment office before he is sent to fight in the war in Ukraine. According to Mail Online, Olympian Ivan Fedotov, …

Russian army commanders are allegedly slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Russian soldiers have reportedly said.   According to Ukranian intelligence, captured Russian soldiers accused a lieutenant-colonel of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured instead of taking them alive …