All news by author: Will Stewart

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, has said reports of the Bryansk attack are "deliberate provocation" by Russia

Soviet-born Swiss doctor Dr Natalia Thiebaud Kondratieva was named as heading the medical team at the birth of Vladimir Putin’s secret children with his gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva, 39

Russian fighter jets were sent to intercept the "intruding" unidentified flying object as it soared over St Petersburg, Russia - with the nearby Pulkovo Airport suspending all departures and arrivals and redirecting civilian craft

Popular fitness influencer Alexey Stolyarov is going out with the daughter of loyalist defence minister Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia Shoigu and the boss of the Wagner private army is demanding he be conscripted

Prominent Russian political scientist and former Kremlin adviser Gleb Pavlovsky has died at age 71 - he was a critic of the war and warned that it would be a terrible mistake and a "great blow" for Russia

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's military planes was 'significantly damaged' by Belarus partisans supporting Ukraine, at an airbase in Belarus, it is reported

A Russian general has said Vladimir Putin has badly misread the West’s resolve to stand up to him and did not realise his army’s incompetence leaving him "terribly scared"

Ultra-secretive Russian oil magnate Viatcheslav Rovneiko, who was a former spy and close to Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence chief, has died in mysterious circumstances near Moscow

Preliminary reports suggest the aircraft in question was a Su-25 and emergency services are working at the crash site in Russia where the pilot ejected and survived

Russian radio stations were hacked with a siren blaring: “An air alert is being announced. Everyone, go to the shelters immediately. Attention! Attention! The threat of a missile strike”

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is claimed to be testing a mysterious Russian military cosmodrome which resulted in a 'huge bang' and left a 'trail in the sky'

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to take the war over borders and justified the use of nuclear weapons while addressing dignitaries during his State of the Nation speech

While it was unclear what Vladimir Putin will be announcing today, the fear of new draconian moves was real and opposition blogger Maxim Katz said: “The cheapest direct flight from Moscow to Yerevan is five times the regular price"

The claim, which cannot be verified, comes from the Russian telegram channel General SVR which has repeatedly made claims that Vladimir Putin is suffering serious medical problems

The IT specialist was named Mikhail Ukrainets and a Telegram channel suggested that he fell from his own height and died at the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow

It is the second time this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed his strategic aircraft in the Norwegian Sea in what has been interpreted as a warning to the West

The latest claims were made by Yury Shvets, 71, a former colleague of Putin's who studied with the despot at the KGB Institute. Shvets is now a US citizen leaving Russia after publishing a book describing his exploits

Police were called after the fight broke out involving players from the Russian First League team Shinnik Yaroslavl and Ukrainian Premier League outfit FC Minaj

The proof of Vladimir Putin’s treatment by cancer doctors was deduced from the existence of contracts with the hospital - which were listed on a Russian public procurement website

Major-General Apti Alaudinov, 50, a pal of Chechnyan warlord Ramzan Kadyrov and commander of the region's soldiers in Ukraine, received a letter saturated with an unknown deadly toxin

The head of the Wagner private army, which is fighting for the Kremlin against Ukraine, said it may take two years for Russia to complete their ultimate war goals

A former spy chief has insisted Vladimir Putin is not unwell or dead, but that he does often use body doubles when on visits, over assassination fears

Russia President Vladimir Putin is testing his hypersonic Satan-2 apocalypse missile and officials in remote districts have been warned to be ready for a test launch between February 15 and 25

The coats were being given to Russian women whose husbands had been invading the Donbas - in a donation drive organised by the wife of a convicted war criminal

Ten fire brigades were sent to tackle the blaze, and there was a call for reinforcements amid a "difficult situation" at a giant Lukoil installation near Nizhny Novgorod, some 300 miles east of Moscow in Russia