The Kremlin has passed a new bill to strengthen its hold on Russian residents and make it easier to summon conscripts for the army with a new law, in a bid to bolster its military forces. The bill was unanimously approved by 391 Russian deputies, with no absentees or votes against it. The new law requires conscripts to show up for recruitment after being notified in person and digitally, to make a... 

A prominent anti-Putin activist has raised concerns that the Russian president is laying the groundwork for unleashing nuclear warfare in Ukraine as a twisted message to the global community. The activist, Andrey Sidelnikov, conveyed that Putin has been escalating nuclear rhetoric as part of his desperate efforts to dissuade Western leaders from providing modern weaponry to Ukraine’s army. Putin’s... 

The Russian woman arrested on suspicion of assassinating one of Vladimir Putin’s propagandists in a bomb attack has today admitted she carried the statue laden with explosives into a cafe in St Petersburg – but insisted she had been ‘set up’. Daria Trepova, 26, was filmed with her hands chained to a radiator while being interrogated by Russian investigators over the assassination... 

A Russian missile blew up a Ukrainian apartment building this morning hours after a drone strike on a Kyiv high school killed seven people, terrifying video has shown. The strikes came as part of Vladimir Putin’s latest missile barrage against the country, despite the Kremlin insisting its forces are not targeting civilians. Shocking footage from Zaporizhzhya and posted by Ukraine’s President... 

Furious Vladimir Putin has condemned the International Criminal Court’s ‘outrageous’ decision to issue an arrest warrant for him over war crimes in Ukraine, that one expert said could hasten his removal as Russia’s leader. The ICC on Friday called for Putin’s arrest and accused the despot of committing war crimes by abducting Ukrainian children from their homes and deporting... 

The $32 million MQ-9 Reaper drone downed in the Black Sea after a run-in with Russian fighter jets on Tuesday is the same type of aircraft used by the CIA to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul in July, 2022. Equipped for long-range surveillance missions, the unmanned spy aircraft is controlled by two pilots on the ground – sometimes as much as 5,000 miles away -can fly for 20 hours,... 

Amidst escalating tensions and opposition to Vladimir Putin’s regime, Andrey Sidelnikov, a prominent Russian opposition politician, expressed to Express.co.uk that Russia is on the brink of civil war and disintegration as a state. Sidelnikov, a member of the Executive Council of the Congress of People’s Deputies (CPD), advocates for the use of force as the only means to remove Putin and... 

From Politico to Vice to various news agencies, mainstream media is busy echoing the conspiracy theories and wild speculations of some Western officials – with the latest being based on allegations by Finland’s foreign minister… “Finland’s foreign minister hinted that Russia may have been involved in last week’s Koran-burning protest that threatens to derail Sweden’s accession... 

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has issued ultra-provocative words claiming that it’s not fundamentally Ukraine that Russia is at war with, but that the Russian military is facing all of NATO inside Ukraine. “The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kiev. It’s a military confrontation of NATO, first of all the US and Britain, with Russia. Fearing a direct... 

Ukraine’s recent drone strikes deep within Russian territory could escalate the conflict, as Russia could come to the conclusion that the strikes were done with the help of the United States. The drone strikes conducted by Ukraine were supposedly in retaliation for Russian strikes targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. On Monday, Dec. 5, Ukrainian drones attacked two military airbases – the... 

Vladimir Putin warned today that the risk of nuclear war is ‘rising’ but insisted Moscow has not ‘gone mad’ during a televised meeting with officials. The Russian despot boasted that his country had the most ‘advanced weapons’ in its arsenal, but claimed the Kremlin sees its own nuclear weapons purely as a deterrent. His comments come after months of speculation... 

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has alluded to the possibility of branding Russia as a terrorist state amid the Kremlin’s continued illegal war in Ukraine. During a session with the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Labour MP Liam Byrne inquired whether the UK Foreign Office would designate Russia as a terrorist state. Mr. Cleverly, refusing to rule out the prospect, acknowledged that there... 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a global economic crisis and heightened the risk of a continent-wide conflict in Europe. Vladimir Putin’s decision to significantly reduce gas supplies to the EU, which previously relied on Moscow for 40 percent of its gas, has intensified geopolitical tensions. Accusations against Russia for the explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in... 

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the formidable leader of the Wagner Group, a notorious private army often associated with being a potential successor to Vladimir Putin, recently engaged in a face-to-face confrontation with the Russian president, critiquing his handling of the ongoing war in Ukraine. This audacious act of defiance, disclosed by US intelligence reports, sheds light on Prigozhin’s increasing... 

A Ukrainian conductor has been shot dead in his own home by Russian troops for refusing to take part in a concert in occupied territory, Kyiv has claimed. Yuriy Kerpatenko snubbed the Kremlin-backed concert ‘intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson’, the Ukrainian culture ministry said. The October 1 concert was scheduled...