A Putin-ally and top Kremlin propagandist has threatened the West with nuclear anihilation and given a chilling warning to Trump, America and Europe.

Putin said the missiles fired by Russian air defenses to target a Ukrainian drone exploded near the Azerbaijani Airlines plane, his first admission of responsibility.

The savage strike came as Donald Trump turned against Putin and is hinting at significantly re-arming Ukraine to p

President Donald Trump calls Tomahawk missiles a "new step of aggression" while considering sending the weapons to Ukraine against Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel prize, and voiced hope for securing an agreement to extend a pivotal nuclear arms pact with Washington for another year.

A Kremlin announcement said Putin would take part, beginning Thursday, in a Russia-Central Asia summit, also to be attended by the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Putin limits his foreign travel in connection with an order for his arrest by the International Criminal Court issued over the deportation of Ukrainian children in the more than 3-1/2-year-old war.

The Russian president said terminating the 2010 New START would have negative consequences for global stability.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a state visit to Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the Soviet Union.

David O'Sullivan, the EU's sanctions envoy, told Euronews he hopes the US will return to a policy of applying new sanctions against Russia. View on euronews

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to violently seize power.

One of Putin’s true wins is his quarter century in power. Although Russia is a militant autocracy, the reason for Putin’s lifetime presidency isn’t gulags, mass executions, or forced labor. It’s a set of deals with the Russian people.