Marc Bennetts

In the first known case of its kind, Oleksandr Mustyatse disappeared around his 15th birthday and is feared to have been brainwashed into enlisting

A flurry of visits outside Moscow suggests worries in the Kremlin about support for the president and the war in Ukraine

The president visited Iturup, one of the four islands both Japan and Russia claim as their own, where he ate salmon roe, met children and visited a hospital

At least 437 civilians died in Russian strikes in July as President Zelensky pleads for Patriot interceptors to stop the missiles

Andrei Klepach, chief economist at VEB, said the country was heading for a ‘social crisis’ and drew parallels with the build-up to the 1917 revolution

A deputy leader of a Russian anti-war political party has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his criticism of the war in Ukraine, as the

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said a set of proposals to end the war in Ukraine has been drawn up with the United States and Europe, despite

A former member of the anti-Kremlin collective says Russian agents sought to coerce her into luring a prominent opposition figure to his death

The Ukraine war has provided the perfect theatre for a strengthened alliance between President Putin and Kim Jong-un, forged in an exchange of troops and missile technology

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