Marc Bennetts

In an address to the nation Ukraine’s president said the Russian elite knew ‘Putin alone is the reason this war started and still hasn’t ended’

The Ukrainian leader said that Kyiv's drone and missile strikes on the Kremlin's occupying forces, as well as inside Russia itself, had created a “toxic atmosphere” around Putin.

The president has good reason to fear what is traditionally seen as a time of turmoil. The Ukraine war has left his regime facing its toughest test

Known as "black" or "cursed" August, the eighth month of the year has traditionally brought turmoil to Russia, from an attempted coup by Soviet

Three children died and more than 40 people were injured after the suspected Ukrainian drone landed on a busy beach close to Gelendzhik, a popular town

Patriarch Kirill called the country’s atomic arsenal a ‘shield for the motherland’

Valerii Zaluzhny, who was Ukraine’s top general until 2024, also accused the alliance of telling Kyiv ‘fairytales’ about its increasingly-delayed membership

Patriarch Kirill, who has called the invasion of Ukraine a “holy war” against evil, spoke while delivering a service at a convent near Sarov, the town in which the Soviet Union developed its first nuclear bomb.

Nato is lagging badly behind Russia and will need more than a decade to match even half of Moscow's battlefield capabilities, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief has warned.

The attack on Vladimir Tkachuk comes days after a suspected Ukrainian assassination attempt on a general in Moscow