ON Vladimir Putin’s doorstep, a tiny Nato nation of two million people are drawing up war plans for a possible invasion. Lithuania has recruited a secret army and drawn up plans for a forest

A deepening spat between Russia and Azerbaijan shows Vladimir Putin's waning influence in the South Caucasus, analysts have told Newsweek.

US President Donald Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Trump said with the journalists. "It's going to happen, but it should have happened three months ago,

President Donald Trump insisted Friday that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “will happen," even as the Kremlin ruled out talks between the two leaders in the near term.

Ukrainian analysts have told Newsweek the move undoes a decade of democratic progress, although its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he backed a new draft law aimed at strengthening the independence the anti-corruption institutions. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian president's office and the Kremlin for comment.

President Vladimir Putin joined mourners on Thursday to say farewell to his former classmate Irina Podnosova, the head of Russia's Supreme Court, who died earlier this week aged 71.

Moscow has reportedly struck a deal with New Delhi to bring in up to one million Indian workers to help ease manpower problems as the war in Ukraine continues

The Kremlin has been hit by sanctions since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, meaning that Vladimir Putin cannot afford the cost of the repair job for his massive war vessel

Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling over a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump has changed his mind about sending weapons to Ukraine.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says Russia never seriously expected or worked to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election: DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TULSI GABBARD: First, Putin's principal interests relating to the 2016 election were to undermine faith in the U.

EXCLUSIVE: Father Patrick Desbois said Putin's war "is undergirded by the lie that Ukrainians are Russian", and that the theft of Ukrainian children "is a key Russian objective".