Max Seddon

After Congress approved a long-delayed $61bn in US military aid to Ukraine last week, Russia gloated that advanced western weapons would not turn the tide on the battlefield.

Russian deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov attended a meeting of the military's top brass last month, sitting a seat away from his boss and wearing the uniform of one of the highest-ranking officials in the country.

A US crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia, according to senior western officials and Russian financiers.

After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine trade links between the two countries have strengthened. So have Beijing’s geopolitical ambitions

Vladimir Putin put Sergei Shoigu in charge of an invasion in 2022 with orders to capture Kyiv within a matter of days.

For two years, Chinese backing for Russia's war in Ukraine has been western governments' biggest concern about the two countries' burgeoning relationship.

Watching his Russian clients partying late at a karaoke bar in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou recently, Chinese factory manager Chen marvelled at their stamina.

The Kremlin has turned to microprocessors and other technology not intended for military use to skirt sanctions, the Financial Times reports.

Rheinmetall’s Armin Papperger says German government providing ‘great level of security’ after attempt on his life reportedly uncovered by US intelligence

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