All news on the topic: Vladimir Putin

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Putin aide in security scare after helicopter makes emergency landing in Iran
Igor Levitin had been on a "secret" visit to Iran as Russia tries to speed up deliveries of missiles and military drones for use in Ukraine. He made an emergency landing due to 'security issues'
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Putin henchman threatens West with nuclear war if Russia defeated in Ukraine
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, appeared to warn NATO leaders that they should stop supplies of weapons to Kyiv
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Vladimir Putin orders 21 mobile crematoriums amid 'colossal' Russian war losses
The Kremlin is acutely aware of its toll of "irretrievable losses" and wants to hide the scale of deaths of mobilised troops from everydays Russians - so has deployed several mobile crematoriums to help Vladimir Putin cover his tracks
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Ukraine President Zelensky says Vladimir Putin could be dead in bombshell speech
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urging his allies to send more weapons to his army before new Russian offensives
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Boris Johnson compares Vladimir Putin to 'fat boy in Dickens' in strange speech
The former prime minister also urged his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos to "stop worrying about Kremlinology" insisting Russia will "never" use nuclear weapons
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Alex Scott terrified after failed kidnap by driver who threatened to kill her
Football presenter Alex Scott has told how she was nearly kidnapped by an Uber driver while working in Russia during the 2018 World Cup
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Army deserter, 31 shot dead by Vladimir Putin marksman after fleeing to see wife
Dmitry Perov's body was found in a snowy field in the village of Novouglyanka in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. The army deserter reportedly fled his military base in Ukraine to be reunited with his wife
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Inside charred nursery gutted by helicopter crash explosion which killed 18
Three children were killed when a helicopter carrying Ukrainian interior ministry officials plunged into a kindergarten in Brovary, Ukraine - with the death toll expected to rise
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Putin rambles on about Patriotic War as Ukraine helicopter crash kills 18
As rescue workers scoured through the debris of the helicopter crash site in Brovary, Kyiv today, twisted despot Vladimir Putin bragged and droned on about Russia breaking the siege of Leningrad 80 years ago
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Vladimir Putin to make 'very important' announcement on Ukraine war tomorrow
Vladimir Putin may make a statement on the war in Ukraine in St Petersburg tomorrow, Russian official Vladimir Rogov has claimed. There has been no official confirmation from the Kremlin yet
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Russia in chilling threat that Brit tanks in Ukraine 'will burn like the rest'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Britain supplying tanks to Ukraine in its war with Russia will only create "more troubles" and they will "burn just like the rest"
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'Withdrawn' Putin suffering from side effects of cancer drugs, insiders claim
Russian president Vladimir Putin has become “withdrawn, silent and deeply preoccupied” as new claims say he is undergoing medical treatment for cancer
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Russia brags Poseidon nuclear tsunami torpedoes can 'plunge UK into sea depths'
The monster bomb is said to be able to travel at up to 80mph under the sea and has been reportedly loaded onto its mammoth submarine which is the longest in the world
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Russia launches high-speed Poseidon apocalypse drones amid nuclear threat
It comes as Vladimir Putin suck up and pro-war fanatic Lt-Gen Andrey Gurulev told hosts on state-run Russia's Rossiya 1 TV channel that Britain could be "demolished from the face of the earth" for supporting Ukraine without resorting to nuclear weapons
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Inside luxury £34million doomsday bunkers which can survive deadly nuclear war
A new set of luxury doomsday bunkers have been launched by a Swiss engineering company just months after Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened the West with nuclear war
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Dozens feared dead after devastating Russian missile strike on Ukraine homes
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 29 and it's feared no more survivors will be found
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Russia's worst rapist who killed 83 women volunteers to fight in Ukraine
Sex attacker Mikhail Popkov is serving two life sentences for the murder of 83 women but now the serial killer wants to be released to fight for Russian forces in Ukraine
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Russia 'publicly executing' troops who defy Vladimir Putin's orders in Ukraine
Capture Russians from the Wagner group, which has murderers, rapists and drug dealers on its front line, have come confessed to their Ukrainian captors they face execution by their own leaders
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Defiant Ukrainians sing and dance as Russians launch new attack on train station
Air defence systems were activated on Saturday afternoon in the southern Mykolaiv region, Gov. Vitali Kim said on Telegram, and hinted that some missiles have already been intercepted
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Rishi Sunak confirms UK will send tanks to Ukraine in move set to 'enrage' Putin
Following a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today, a No 10 spokesperson confirmed Britain will be "accelerating military and diplomatic support"
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Putin's 'successor' who saved him from bear sets up horror drone training school
Alexei Dyumin, 50, was once the bodyguard of despot Vladimir Putin and Russia's ex-deputy defence minister, who led a covert operation in 2014 to help toppled Kyiv president Viktor Yanukovych escape a 13-year jail term in Crimea
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Vladimir Putin ‘will nominate his heir this year and retire to avoid revolution’
The Russian president reportedly fears being ousted by the head of a private army called the 'Wagner Group' and plans to hand over power and take refuge in his remote mansion
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Russian troops waging ferocious battle in Ukraine as Putin reshuffles generals
Vladimir Putin has gathered a Chechen warlord and a notorious mercenary leader after appointing General Valery Gerasimov as head of Russian forces as troops continue to shell Ukraine
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Putin attends funeral of dictator while thousands of Russians killed in war
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin flew to Ufa to pay his respects to Murtaza Rakhimov, ex-president of Russian republic Bashkortostan, but he has failed to offer condolences to other war victims
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Putin ally claims World War 3 has already started - calls for nuclear strikes
TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told Russians that Moscow should target the West to disrupt NATO countries from sending supplies to Ukraine - it comes as Western countries continue to send aid