Russia staged huge military drills involving 10,000 troops, 60 warships, over 200 warplanes, and about 1,200 vehicles in Crimea today after Vladimir Putin warned the West not to ‘dare cross any red lines’ amid soaring tensions with Ukraine. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu personally travelled to the peninsula on Thursday to oversee the colossal war games involving Russia’s southern military … Read more
Russia is staging huge military drills involving 10,000 troops and 40 warships in Crimea after Vladimir Putin warned the West not to ‘dare cross any red lines’ amid soaring tensions with Ukraine. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu travelled to the peninsula on Thursday to oversee the colossal war games involving Russia’s southern military district and paratroopers close … Read more
Vladimir Putin has slammed the West for ‘picking on Russia for no reason’ and warned against any country crossing his ‘red line’ as he gave his annual state-of-the-union address on Wednesday. The speech comes at a time of heightened tensions at home and abroad over the situation in Ukraine where 120,000 of his troops are … Read more
Ukraine in their sights: On a Russian base just 100 miles from the border, 15 supersonic strike jets await Putin’s orders The 15 supersonic Russian fighter-bombers are currently waiting on at a runway at the Morozovsk airbase Armed with array of laser-guided missiles and a 30mm autocannon capable of firing 1,800 rounds a minute Pictured reveal … Read more
Alexei Navalny‘s doctors have again been denied access to him despite growing concerns over his health as Russian state TV imposed a news blackout on his hunger strike. The jailed Kremlin critic, 44, has been striking since March 31 demanding medical treatment for a litany of ailments and a team of medics including his personal … Read more
A children’s author was shot and then beaten to death by a neighbour with mental health issues, after he became convinced the victim was a spy working for Russian president Vladimir Putin to spread Covid-19, an inquest has heard. James Nash, 42, was shot in the front garden of his home in the hamlet of … Read more
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been sent to hospital after his 20-day hunger strike in prison left his life ‘hanging by a thread’. It comes after his allies today said they are braced for ‘very grave’ news about his health when his lawyers see him again. Lyubov Sobol said Navalny’s team have ‘no hope’ that … Read more
Russian politicians have told President Vladimir Putin that he ‘bears personal responsibility for the life’ of Alexei Navalny as the Kremlin critic’s life ‘hangs by a thread’ in prison. Nearly a dozen lawmakers signed and published an open letter to the Russian leader as doctors warn Navalny’s health is failing amid a hunger strike. Vladimir … Read more
Joe Biden said Saturday that the treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is ‘totally inappropriate’. ‘It’s totally, totally unfair, totally inappropriate,’ Biden weighed in on the matter while speaking to reporters at Wilmington Country Club after a round of golf. ‘On the basis of having been poisoned and then on a hunger strike. It’s … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ‘is dying’ and could suffer a cardiac arrest at ‘any minute’, his doctor warned today as medics are barred from the penal colony. Vladimir Putin‘s most prominent rival, 44, was imprisoned in February and is serving two-and-a-half years on old embezzlement charges in the town of Pokrov, around 60 miles … Read more