Vladímir Putin

Russia has canceled the annual reception for World War II veterans and the citizens’ march amid heightened tension in the Kremlin after an alleged drone attack

The U.N. secretary general talks to EL PAÍS about the Russian invasion, Europe’s failure to address the refugee crisis and why more needs to be done to address global warming

Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday, lauding two tenets that are central to its identity: military might and moral rectitude

Diplomats and analysts believe Moscow will capitalize on the incident to inflame anti-Western rhetoric. Deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has called for the ‘elimination of Zelenskiy and his clique’

It is the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles and the first time Ukraine is known to have used the Patriot defense systems

The incident involving Zakhar Prilepin, a well-known nationalist writer and an ardent supporter of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, took place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod

A threat by the owner of private Russian military company Wagner on Friday to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize an eastern Ukrainian city is another flareup in his dispute with Russia’s regular military

In a conversation with EL PAÍS, the great French thinker reflects on existence and invites us to cultivate the poetic side of living. He has just published a ‘dissident’ book on the war in Ukraine and has two more works forthcoming in the summer

The head of the group accused Russia’s military command Friday of starving his forces of ammunition and rendering them unable to fight

President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed confidence that Vladimir Putin will be convicted of war crimes, while the Kremlin alleged the U.S. was behind what it called an assassination attempt against Putin

The alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, the destruction of several fuel depots and the derailment of two trains in recent days has placed Moscow on high alert ahead of May 9

A cloud of questions hangs over Russia’s claim that two Ukrainian drones flew into the very heart of Moscow under the cover of darkness, reaching the Kremlin before they were shot down at the last minute

There were no immediate details and no independent verification of the reported attack on the Kremlin, which Russia authorities said occurred overnight but presented no evidence

General Alexey Kuzmenkov has been installed in place of Mikhail Mizintsev, the ‘Butcher of Mariupol,’ to tackle Moscow’s growing problems in keeping front line troops supplied

The EU, NATO and the U.S. have a skeptical view of Xi’s call to Zelensky. The next steps in the conflict will serve as the basis for defining a strategy to bring an end to the war waged by Russia

U.S. support for Ukraine will be tested anew when Congress is again expected to help fund the war to defeat Russia

Francis was toeing a diplomatic tightrope which is part of the Vatican’s tradition of diplomatic neutrality. He’s in Budapest on a weekend visit to minister to Hungary’s Catholic faithful

The Moscow-installed governor of the port city of Sevastopol posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel on Saturday

On Thursday, a court in Moscow ordered to liquidate the Sova Center, a prominent non-governmental organization that monitors racism and xenophobia in Russia, as well as implementation of anti-extremism laws

In 2010, Moscow acknowledged responsibility for the Katyn massacre and issued a formal apology, but a recent document now blames Nazi Germany for the war crime

At least three children were among the fatalities as Moscow hit targets beyond the front lines for the first time in weeks ahead of an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive

Xi Jinping’s contact with Zelenskyy this week was followed by skeptical questions about whether Beijing is more focused on ending an invasion it refuses to criticize, or serving its own interests

The president of Brazil assures EL PAÍS from Madrid that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine is possible. “That’s why I try to do my part,” he argues

Brussels and Washington state that the Wagner Group operates in the African country through shell companies and is involved in the exploitation and smuggling of gold

Under new owner Elon Musk, Twitter recently ended its policy of labeling foreign propaganda agencies like RT or Sputnik. Researchers say the site has also ended its policy of making those accounts ineligible for promotion or recommendation

Ukrainian authorities are starting to face up to the scale of the problem the country has, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers head into combat without the mental-health support they need