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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

Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg outlined plans to demand more money from the coalition's 30 members - even though the vast majority of countries do not even meet the current 2% benchmark

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

A Russian fighter jet apparently intercepted two US nuclear bombers only days after an American drone was downed in the Black Sea - it is claimed a Sukhoi Su-35 fighter was scrambled to 'escort' US Air Force B-52H bombers

China's President Xi complimented Vladimir Putin on his first trip since being re-elected this month, with the two leaders reaffirming their friendship, shaking hands and toasting each other

President Vladimir Putin adhered to Russian protocol by not showing up at the airport to receive China's President Xi Jinping today with the pair expected to meet for dinner this evening

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 leader is reported to have made a 'working visit' to the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol just days after an international warrant was issued for his arrest

Putin was seen at an opening of a children's centre in Crimea after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest for alleged war crimes in Ukraine

Justice Minister Dominic Raab said Britain would not hesitate to detain Russian President Vladimir Putin and hand him over to the International Criminal Court if he ever sets foot in the UK

Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"

Ukraine's top presidential advisor for children's rights and rehabilitation, Daria Herasymchuk, said on Tuesday that out of the 16,000 children abducted, only 125 had been returned to Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has compared an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Vladimir Putin to toilet paper in a tweet

The court said in a statement that Vladimir Putin "is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of the population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"

At the three-hour lunch in Moscow, warmonger Bashar Assad met his top ally Russian President Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his support of the war in Ukraine

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

Present Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Society of Editors conference in London yesterday, praising the coverage his country's invasion has received from the British press

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

The footage shows Russian President Vladimir Putin gripping his desk at the Kremlin in Moscow amid fresh claims he is suffering from “intensified pain in his abdomen"

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

Grigory Yavlinsky is a longtime critic of the Putin regime and went on to warn that Russia could use it's nuclear capabilities against Ukraine if they were to try and recapture Crimea

Tensions between the Russian ministry of defence and the rebel Wagner group over the city of Bakhmut have reached to “boiling point” as some 520 Russian troops were reported killed in Bakhmut in one day’s fighting

Vladimir Putin is a black belt in judo and was was honorary president of the International Judo Federation before being removed from his position in March due to the invasion of Ukraine

The PM Rishi Sunak is unveiling plans to increase the UK's defence budget by £5bn - but that's less than half what defence secretary Ben Wallace demanded

Thermite munitions - which have been used previously during the war in Ukraine - are particularly deadly because they burn rather than explode, reaching temperatures exceeding 2,400C that can easily sear through steel