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'Determination to preserve their unfettered dominance'

"Western elites deny not only national sovereignty and international law; their hegemony has the pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism, and apartheid," Putin asserted. "They brazenly divide the world into their vassals, into so-called civilized countries and everyone else who,

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of "Satanism" and bemoaned that "there are supposedly genders besides women and men" on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Ukraine's application for rapid ascension into the NATO alliance on Friday, which coincides with Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval of the annexation of four Ukrainian territories.

Putin hosts ceremony for four occupied Ukrainian regions.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service has evidence of a "Western trace" in the Nord Stream explosions, Director Sergey Naryshkin claimed

At the General Debate during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that the United States government is attempting to turn the entire planet into its “backyard”. He also called attention to the US’s use of unilateral sanctions against

Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated "referendum" on living under Moscow's rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged

The embassy warned dual citizens could be entered into Putin's conscription or prevented from leaving the country.

A former Polish defense minister credited the United States with blowing holes in two Russian natural gas pipelines to Europe, Nord Stream 1 and 2. Der Spiegel says the CIA warned Germany of a potential attack on the pipelines several weeks ago.

Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines "Unprecedented;" May Have Been 'Sabotaged' The plot thickens about what caused damage to three lines of the Nord Stream gas-pipeline system under the Baltic Sea to Europe. Some European officials suspect

Dmitri Medvedev, a former Russian president, said that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons 'if the use of conventional weapons threatens the very existence of our state.'

Any use of nuclear weapons by Russia is unacceptable and would have severe consequences, NATO said on Tuesday after an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin .

The Pentagon will deliver the first two advanced NASAMS anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine in the next two months, providing Kyiv with a weapon that it has pressed for since earlier this year

Pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany could each leak the annual output of two million cars or two coal power plants.

What could happen if Putin used nuclear weapons in Ukraine?

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced a partial military mobilisation as he seeks to escalate the war in Ukraine following his latest military defeat.

One-way flights out of Russia are selling out fast after President Vladimir Putin's order for the immediate call-up of 300,000 reservists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, in a measure that appeared to be an admission that Moscow’s war against Ukraine isn’t going according to plan after nearly seven months of fighting.

Russian news channel that announced the speech deleted their posts two hours after the Russian leader was set to begin Putin's first international announcement since the invasion of Ukraine.