Colin Freeman

Every weekday The Telegraph's top journalists analyse the Russian invasion of Ukraine from all angles and tell you what you need to know

One day in 1990, a bullnecked ex-con stepped out of Russia's prison colony AN-24/34, wearing a dated Soviet suit that showed he'd been locked up for quite some time.

The Telegraph’s top journalists analyse the top defence, security and foreign affairs stories, and tell you what you need to know

Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl Roulette records the 2022 occupation of the nuclear site – but the drama is often buried behind background detail

Ben Macintyre’s ‘definitive’ new account of the 1980 hostage crisis, The Siege, turns well-worn material into a fresh and gripping read

Long before he is thought to have trained his guns on Donald Trump , Ryan Routh tried to tout his warrior skills in Ukraine as a volunteer with the country's International Legion.

He also said Biden was “very nice”. But his late decision to play golf did not allow for a full sweep of the course’s perimeter, the head of the agency said.

The BBC sets out to find the man allegedly behind a plot to smuggle 1.2 tonnes of cocaine to Europe.

Anastasia Trofimova spent seven months with a frontline Russian unit in Ukraine. Is her film brave reporting – or Putin propaganda?