Vladimir Putin has “played Donald Trump like a violin” over Ukraine, according to a former British intelligence boss. Sir Alex Younger, who was the head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020, said the Russian president is going to make his US counterpart “look like a Muppet” by continuing to bomb its neighbour.

Three Ukrainians were killed in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russia captured a first village this week after a months-long incursion. In the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region — the site of a nuclear plant — two civilians were killed in the attacks, Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Russia's top diplomat his country was ready to "unconditionally support" Moscow's every effort to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, state media reported on Sunday,

President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t reset US relations with Vladimir Putin.

On Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants more than Donald Trump has been prepared to offer, writes BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.

With a recent wave of arrests and expropriations, as well as possible assassinations, Putin appears to be turning on more of Russia's rich and powerful. The post Russian Oligarchs Are Back in Putin's Crosshairs appeared first on World Politics Review.

Moscow, Pyongyang maintain ‘common approach’ on resolving issues on Korean Peninsula, committed to their resolution through diplomatic means, says Russian Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state media on Monday, one stood out. Near his body, the Kommersant newspaper reported,

It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President Vladimir V. Putin, no matter what you’ve heard.