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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

A total of 17 youngsters were snatched by Vladimir Putin's forces and hauled off to Russia-held Crimea after being told by their cruel captors that their families had abandoned them

South African opposition minority party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has said Vladimir Putin is welcome to their country despite an arrest warrant being issued

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.

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'

Russia has pummelled Ukraine just hours after Japan's prime minister left Kyiv following a visit to the capital to show the country support while Vladimir Putin met with China's leader Xi Jinping

When the invasion was launched in February 2022, China's President Xi Jinping and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin announced a "no limits" friendship and have also spoken to strengthening their "special relationship"

Russia's war in Ukraine recently passed its one year anniversary, having displaced millions, and left tens of thousands dead with horror stories still regularly emerging from the fighting

The Ministry of Defence has responded to furious threats by Russian warmonger Vladimir Putin who is unhappy at reports the UK is set to send ammunition to help Ukraine

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu also warned there are 'fewer and fewer steps' to a nuclear collision