All news by author: Will Stewart

The Ukrainian drone was just 127 miles from Moscow before it was sent crashing into some buildings with Russians claiming it left three people injured, including a 16-year-old girl

Farkhad Akhmedov, an oligarch and ex-senator, and Iosif Prigozhin, a well-known music producer, back Vladimir Putin publicly - but in a leaked phone call they appeared to mock the Russian president

Katerina Tikhonova, who heads the Innopraktika Institute in Moscow, says research shows “patriotism” is distinctly lacking among a generation losing its men to Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast and Vladimir Putin's bedfellow, Alina Kabaeva, 39, has been moved from Lugano in Switzerland to a forest hideaway in the depths of northern Russia

Russian social media is ablaze with rumours that Vladimir Putin uses multiple body doubles after Ukrainian officials questioned whether his visit to Mariupol in Ukraine was performed by a doppelgänger.

Maxim Lyutyi, 43, who is believed to be involved in a sect, wanted to raise the newborn on prana-eating - a diet in which people go without food and water for a long time and ‘feed on the sun’

The Russian pair Sergey Popov and Vasily Vavilov, both air force majors, were handed state awards by Vladimir Putin ’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu

Vladimir Churov had been chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission and notoriously operated under a motto that “Putin is always right”, insiders claimed

Russian officials have accused the UK of 'genocide' because of the supply of depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine. The UK said the shells are a 'standard component and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons or capabilities'

Serhiy Moskalenko, 44, has been branded a "traitor" and "torturer" by Ukrainian officials, is accused of carrying out "inhuman tortures" against his "captured" countrymen in occupied Kherson

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads up the shadowy Wagner militia, has warned the Kremlin Defence Ministry that Russia could lose all military gains made in the frontline Ukrainian town of Bakhmut unless he acts quickly

Kyiv official Anton Gerashchenko analysed TV footage of Vladimir Putin meeting residents of a reconstructed apartment block in Mariupol, and wondered if it was a body double because he had a different chin

The Russian Investigative Committee is examining the circumstances of the child’s tragic death near the Black Sea resort city of Sochi and a criminal case has been launched

Luiza Rozova, known to be Vladimir Putin's secret lovechild has been hiding for over a year, after a Russian researcher claims his protection service have kept her away from the limelight since the war

The fire ravaged the border service of the Russian FSB, reports said, with footage and images shared on social media showing huge plumes of thick, acrid smoke piling into the air above Rostov

Sergei Zhirnov, a former KGB colleague of Vladimir Putin, has claimed that body doubles are being employed at key events after he was seen gesticulating fervently and repeatedly touched his nose

Footage shows the brawl on board a Fly Dubai flight from Yekaterinburg, Russia, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, with cabin crew left helpless as punches fly

The head of the Wagner group said there had been “resistance” among the Russian authorities to deploy women in the war zone, but a new report suggests women are now being deployed

Igor Kuzmenko, known to be a "sadistic killer gangster" used faked passports and plastic surgery to evade being captured for 17 years. The 'Les' gang member is responsible for over 50 deaths and is awaiting trial

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian mercenary group Wagner and Vladimir Putin's previous chef, has been cut off from secure government phones

A Russian billionaire known as the 'Scarface oligarch' and for selling Prince Harry and Meghan Markle their Montecito home has died from a 'serious illness' in Moscow

Aerial view footage shows a massive barricades being built on tourist beaches in annexed Crimea, a beach which was once bustling with tourists during the summer

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who has advocated using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, is rumoured to have been poisoned and is being treated in the United Arab Emirates

Vladimir Putin and his rumoured lover enjoy a secret life of luxury at a forest palace and the Russian President is reportedly furious that people are now aware of their lavish lifestyle as war rages on in Ukraine

A major "aerial blast" reported near Moscow has been blamed on a Ukrainian drone seeking to strike in Kolomna, the home to Russia's Mechanial Engineering Design Bureau - where the Kinshal hypersonic and Iskander M tactical missiles are built