Vladímir Putin

The president, a former comedian and actor, features prominently in Sean Penn’s film about the war in Ukraine

The jihadist advance in Burkina Faso and Mali has triggered a strong anti-colonial sentiment that is spreading throughout the Sahel region and being used by Russia

According to Norwegian intelligence services, Moscow has fitted its Northern Fleet with tactical nuclear weapons, increasing the risk of an escalation due to misunderstandings between Moscow and NATO

Yevgeny Prigozhin said that the mercenary group was continuing fierce battles for control of the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region

The Ukrainian president said that Russia wants to destroy the European way of life, but ‘we will not allow that’

Naftali Bennett said that during his mediation, the Russian leader dropped his vow to seek Ukraine’s disarmament and the Ukrainian president promised not to join NATO

Vladimir Putin’s party is rehabilitating the image of the former Soviet dictator and comparing the war in Ukraine with the bloody battle of World War II

Estimates of casualties on both sides during fierce fighting for the city have increased hugely since January as Kyiv’s allies urge abandoning its defense for a fresh counter-offensive in the south

A court in Moscow on Wednesday sentenced Alexander Nevzorov, in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military

Readers seek parallels and answers to the current situation in dystopian stories, self-help guides and classic works about armed conflict and authoritarianism by authors like Tolstoy and Thomas Mann

Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz are attempting to align on energy and military matters but cracks are beginning to show on the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty

The Treasury and State departments announced the moves in coordinated statements that target dozens of the mercenaries’ affiliates

Sixty-five years ago, two exhibitions in the USSR and US contrasted Soviet military and space might with American household appliances

‘We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent,’ warned Rachel Bronson, the president of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Poseidon is one of the next generation arms announced by Moscow five years ago with the capacity to devastate coastal cities and attack naval battle groups undetected

War slogans in Moscow aim to drum up support for the invasion of Ukraine as authorities prepare new measures to punish ‘traitors’ who fled the country to avoid the draft

The reconstruction plan, due for completion in 2035, aims to support the narrative that Moscow has saved the Russian-speaking population from Ukrainian discrimination

General Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin – who previously led the Russian intervention in the Syrian war – while paramilitary forces from the Kremlin’s Wagner Group continue battering Ukrainian cities

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman at the head of the Wagner group, takes advantage of his political and media projection to break a taboo: public criticism and threats against other members of Russia’s elite

Ukraine’s officials have expressed mistrust of Moscow’s proposal for a 36-hour cessation of hostilities, but not observing a truce could play against the country in international public opinion

The Russian leader issued the instruction after a petition from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, but Kyiv has dismissed it as ‘a cynical trap and an element of propaganda’

Estimates of the number of Russian fatalities range from 63 to 400. Reports suggest the HIMARS attack targeted a concentration of cellphone signals at a temporary barracks

In one of the biggest coordinated air strikes of the war, Moscow sent a barrage of missiles and drones against civilian targets, cutting power to 90% of Lviv and 40% of Kyiv

Kyiv says at least 12 killed and 60 wounded in one of the deadliest attacks suffered so far by the port city, which was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in November

The Russian president met senior Defense Ministry officials to discuss beefing up Moscow’s nuclear capability, with armed forces numbers to rise to 1.5m military personnel

Multimillionaires who have voiced opposition to the invasion face smear campaigns by pro-Putin media and the expropriation of their assets

EL PAÍS took a look at four major problems the world will have to contend with in the new year: the war in Ukraine, the fragile relationship between the West and China, climate change and economic turmoil