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Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Helsinki would be formally admitted to the coalition on Tuesday

A key Vladimir Putin ally and head of the bloodthirsty Wagner Group has raised a Russian flag over a shelled-out administrative building in Bakhmut despite Ukrainian forces still controlling large parts of the city

An investigation has been opened by Russia's state Investigative Committee, while analysts in the country have accused the Ukrainian secret service of carrying out the attack

Vladlen Tatarsky was killed as he led a discussion at a cafe in St Petersburg moments after he was handed a statue of himself loaded with explosives which blew him apart

Putin supporter Alexander Dugin, whose own daughter was killed in a bombing, spoke out about this afternoon's explosion in St Petersburg which killed Vladlen Tatarsky

The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction

Child murderer Vladimir Shestakov, 42, who had been serving an 18-year jail sentence, was enlisted into the shady Wagner Company militia to fight for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is said to be losing troops ever since he first drafted Russian soldiers into his widely ill-conceived war in Ukraine. Now has demanded almost 150,000 men be called up to join the war

Valery Solovey, a former professor at a Moscow training school for spies and diplomats, claims the Russian President is using powerful stimulant drugs to aid his deteriorating health

Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile systems are reported to have a range of over 7,500 miles with multiple nuclear warheads and are capable of striking both Europe and the US

The Ministry of Defence claimed to have launched the Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport on Wednesday March 29, and said to have a classified payload onboard

Founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, spoke to Russian reporters in an interview which he hinted at plans to replace Vladimir Putin as president

To stop this "death cult" act, Vladimir Putin needs to be told what the apocalyptic consequences to Russia would be if he nuked Ukraine, an expert has said

Marina Balmasheva, 37, already has a daughter with Vladimir Shavyrin, now 23, who she raised from the age of seven after first being married to his father, Alexey Shavyrin, 47, who now cares for their five adopted children

Little Masha Moskalyova was isolated in a grim orphanage while the criminal case against her father was being conducted - which has now seen him sentenced to two years in a Russian penal colony

Russian politician Elvira Vikhareva became ill in November last year with muscle spasms and severe stomach pains - it has since emerged that she had been poisoned after criticising the Kremlin

Vladimir Putin's soldiers continue to launch artillery around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - which is the largest facility of its kind in Europe - and could infect the entire continent with radiation in the event of a disaster

Vladimir Putin's top security aide, Nikolai Patrushev, has insisted that the dictator is ready to destroy the West if there are any attempts to try to stop Russia's war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have abandoned his gymnast lover, Alina Kabaeva, to seek refuge in the well-guarded Kremlin after becoming paranoid and stressed after unleashing his war on Ukraine

Graham Yuill, an SAS-trained expert once deployed to identify terror suspect in Northern Ireland, says he believes Vladimir Putin is using a body double when making public appearances

A number of Ukraine fans travelled to Wembley to watch their country take on England in a Euro 2024 qualifier, and many made their feelings known about Vladimir Putin

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

The Russian president said that the escalation has come in response to western countries including Britain increasing their supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine

Russia's Federal Security Service had orders "from the very top" of Putin's government to take Ukrainian citizens and march them to their deaths in newly released emails

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