All news on the topic: Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Putin's warlord ally 'seriously ill' amid fears of poisoning
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
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Putin thought Ukraine invasion would shatter Nato, show FSB leaks
The intel comes from inside the FSB security service, from a source known as Wind of Change, and was reportedly leaked to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin
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Thousands race to flee 'almost destroyed' Ukrainian city amid heavy fighting
Around 4,000 Ukrainian citizens are now stranded in the eastern city of Bakhmut, which has been described as 'almost destroyed' by deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko
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Putin will eventually be murdered by his inner circle, predicts Zelensky
In a documentary to mark a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelensky said: "They will find a reason to kill the killer", as loyalists have begun turning the tide
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Putin's 'hidden children being raised in luxury by lover' as Ukraine war rages
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
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Putin 'swearing and yelling' after mansion he shares with lover is leaked
Vladimir Putin is reported to have a secret palace he shares with his lover, the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, and he is believed to have been furious when images of the mansion were leaked out
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Vladimir Putin plans 'mass suicidal attacks' on Ukrainians for three months
Russian forces are resorting to "mass suicidal attacks" on Ukrainians, effectively sending hundreds of soldiers over the frontline for minimal military gains but as a massive cost in Russian lives
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Putin calls crisis meeting after reports of sabotage group inside Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, has said reports of the Bryansk attack are "deliberate provocation" by Russia
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Chelsea sale one year on from Abramovich's next move to problems facing Boehly
It is a year today since the Russian put his Premier League club up for sale because of the war in Ukraine. While Todd Boehly's group swiftly struck a £2.75bn deal to take over at Stamford Bridge, the new era remains an unsettling one
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Inside Vladimir Putin’s hidden palace ‘he shares with gymnast lover and kids’
The Russian president lives in a secret opulent mansion in the countryside away from Moscow which he shares with his Olympic gymnast love and their children, it is reported
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Torture chambers 'funded by Putin’s credit card' to destroy Ukraine's identity
Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'
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Doctor 'who delivered Putin’s secret kids' dies after sharing 'their existence'
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
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Wizz Air suspends flights to Moldova due to safety fears over Russian threat
Wizz Air has announced that it will suspend flights to Moldova from March 14 due to "risk in the country's airspace" with rising tensions with Russia in the country
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Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon cover design inspiration finally unveiled
Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, who designed the iconic album cover, created a number of stories about the cover's creation to add to the mystery but Po has finally shared the true story
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Ukrainian military drone shot down by Russia 'after trying to hit gas station'
Russian media said that the drone fell just metres from a gas distribution station owned by the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom around 60 miles away from Moscow
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Ukraine will join NATO, declares alliance chief in new blow to Vladimir Putin
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg declared war-torn Ukraine will be admitted to the alliance in the long-term, as he began talks in Helsinki with Finnish leaders
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Zelensky warns crisis worsens in Bakhmut as 'Russian terror' dubbed 'pure hell'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops are "constantly destroying" anything his forces can use to "protect our positions for fortification and defence"
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Putin ally chillingly warns of 'nuclear apocalypse' with radioactive rubble
Vladimir Putin’s close ally Dmitry Medvedev has said that if the West continues to arm Ukraine then it would lead to a nuclear "apocalypse" which would last until the "rubble ceases to emit radiation"
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Brit who rescued wife and son from Ukraine plans to move to warzone permanently
Ian Umney, 29, began his mission of saving his Ukrainian wife and son from the conflict last year. Settled in the UK, he now wants to move back into Ukraine and live closer to his wife's family.
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Head of Wagner army demands Putin sends defence minister's son-in-law to fight
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
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Putin spin doctor dies after branding him 'insane' over Ukraine invasion
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
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Vladimir Putin's £274million spy plane 'destroyed by drones' in airbase attack
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
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Vladimir Putin in rant about nuclear weapons warning Russians will 'suffer'
Russian president Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to "make our people suffer" and warned he was "taking into account" the nuclear weapons of NATO allies in a new rant
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'We need a Government on our side - alas we're lumbered with the Tories instead'
Energy bills will rise from Easter putting yet more pressure on Brits already struggling to pay their bills, the Tories' failure to keep prices down is a failure towards the British people
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Russia hammers Ukraine with fresh airstrikes on 1st anniversary of war starting
Ukraine has remained defiant amid a further round of punishing bombardment, while Russian units complain of being sent into battle without proper technical and artillery support