Kanye West’s visit to Moscow involves a potential concert and a meeting with President Vladimir Putin amid the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. Kanye West is in Moscow to help celebrate the birthday of Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy, the creative director of his Yeezy brand. Rubchinskiy is also involved in Kanye’s music career—he helped design the artwork for Vultures, the …
Vladimir Putin has warned South Korea it would be making “a big mistake” if it arms Ukraine in the war against Russia. His comments come after Seoul said it was considering such a possibility, in response to Russia and North Korea’s new pact to help each other in the event of “aggression” against either country. Moscow “will… [make] decisions which …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on the second stop of an East Asian tour. The trip, which comes on the heels of his lavish visit to North Korea, is being interpreted as a demonstration of the diplomatic support Russia still enjoys in this region. The United States has criticised the visit for giving a …
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a moment of existential crisis for Europe, with Finland and Sweden seeking the security of Nato membership. However, Turkey’s opposition to that expansion – as its leader faces a tight spring presidential election – threatens that plan. Turkey has long had a troubled relationship with Sweden, worsened by the spat over Nato membership and …
“This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure,” Putin said of the bridge that symbolized Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea A bridge linking Russia and the Crimean Peninsula was the center of an explosion on Saturday when a truck blew up and collapsed a section of it. The bridge sits over the Kerch Strait, which …
Mr Putin appeared to make a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons to defend the new annexed territories. He declared that the regions would “forever” be part of Russia. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the annexation “the most serious escalation since the start of the war”. In a speech, the Russian leader claimed citizens in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk …
The EU must take Vladimir Putin’s threats he could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine seriously, the bloc’s foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell told the BBC’s Lyse Doucet that the war had reached a “dangerous moment”. His remarks come as Russia begins a partial mobilisation and moves to annex four regions of Ukraine. Mr Putin has …
A heartbroken mother fell to her knees and screamed after one of Vladimir Putin ’s rockets beheaded her only son. Yana Kovaliova sobbed when she recalled the moment she discovered her 18-year-old son decapitated in the street, not far from his dying girlfriend. Her only son had tragically died trying to protect his partner as another victim of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The brutal bloody …
President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine on Sunday that Russia’s military operation would only be halted if Kyiv stopped resisting and fulfilled all of the Kremlin’s demands. Putin told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan by telephone that Ukraine’s negotiators should take a more “constructive” approach at talks with Moscow to take into account the reality on the ground. Putin, whose comments …
