Putin starts nuclear drills to test West’s support for Ukraine
Russia’s Defence Ministry says the drills are simulating a ‘massive’ counterstrike to a nuclear attack by enemy forces.
Vladimir Putin
Ukraine strikes deeper inside Russia, reshaping the war
Ukraine’s deep strikes inside Russian territory are being seen as a game-changer that could force Vladimir Putin into negotiating an acceptable peace.
Elon Musk’s secret conversations with Vladimir Putin
Regular contacts between the world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters.
Putin eyes a new world order
Russia’s providing targeting data for Yemen’s Houthi rebels as they attacked Western ships in the Red Sea earlier in the year is further evidence of Vladimir Putin’s drive to reshape the world order.
Russia helped Houthis target global shipping
Providing targeting data to the Iranian backed rebels shows how far Vladimir Putin is willing to go to undermine the US-led Western economic and political order.
What price defence of liberty?
Jim Chalmers, like Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong, is blind to what is really at stake for the West in Israel’s fight to defend itself.
China accuses Australia of ‘systemic racism, hate crimes’
Beijing has launched a tirade against Canberra after an Australian diplomat raised concerns about human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet as President Xi meets Vladimir Putin in Russia.
German spy planes to join UK hunt for Putin’s subs
German spy planes will take off from Scotland next year to help protect the North Atlantic following concerns about Russian submarines close to the UK.
Putin makes case for Asia NATO
The importance of confronting the ‘Axis of Evil’, made up of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, has been underlined in recent days.
UK firms warned to watch for insider Russian attacks
Criminal gangs and proxies working for Putin are on a mission to bring ‘mayhem’ to our streets, says security service.
Why Australia’s golden swim team could soon face Russian treatment
Australia’s champion swimmers are facing the humiliating possibility of competing at future international events as ‘neutrals’, like Russian and Belarusian athletes, as Swimming Australia faces expulsion from the world’s governing body.
Kim sending 10,000 ‘to join Putin’s war’
Pyongyang’s involvement would be ‘the first step to a world war’, the Ukrainian president has warned.
History shows corporate boards are safe houses
Life won’t be quite so easy for new Lendlease chair John Gillam as he takes the reins amid shareholder concern over returns.
Putin behind dishonourable Skripal murder attempt, inquiry hears
The UK government believes the novichok poison attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia in 2018 was so sensitive only Vladimir Putin could have ordered it.
Navalny wrote he knew he would die in prison in new memoir
Alexi Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s top political opponent, tragically wrote ‘there will not be anybody to say goodbye to’ from prison in his posthumous memoir set to be released later this month.
Harris aids ‘sandwich’ generation, blasts Trump/Putin ties
Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of prioritising Vladimir Putin over US citizens dying of Covid but slipped up over her differences with Joe Biden in a media blitz of friendly interviews.
Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ is back in arms business
Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout was traded in 2022 for US basketball star Brittney Griner.
Inside the criminal state of Russia
The looting of state-owned assets in Russia was just the start of the crime rush.
Fight and we’ll drop charges: Kremlin
The decision follows the recruitment of convicts and is aimed at shoring up the country’s armed forces amid mounting losses.
Putin takes aim at childlessness to raise birth rate
Suggesting that raising children is anything but a joy is set to become illegal in Russia under a law banning the ‘child-free movement’.
Putin’s ‘unstoppable’ Satan II missile blows up
The ‘super-weapon’ RS-28 Sarmat, an intercontinental ballistic missile known in the West as Satan II has blown up in its silo during a test launch.
Putin will fall ‘when we least expect it’
Political change in Russia usually happens suddenly, unexpectedly, when nobody sees it coming, and nobody is ready for it, a freed dissident says.
Prospect of all-out world war now very real
An increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin is more likely than ever to follow through on his threat to use nuclear weapons against the West.
Ukraine ‘helpless’ to prevent North Korea arms supply to Russia
Ukraine can do nothing to prevent North Korea supplying Russia with artillery shells and ballistic missiles that are ‘critical’ to the war.
Britain rejects ‘baseless’ Russian spy claim
The Kremlin has ordered six employees at the UK embassy in Moscow to leave owing to ‘signs of espionage’ – after Putin warns the West over missiles.
Long-range missile deal means war, Putin warns
Vladimir Putin has warned Britain and the US against allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike targets in Russia.
West must deliver in Ukraine
Long range missiles are needed despite risks.
Putin ‘escalating’ the war in Ukraine
Britain and the US are on the verge of allowing Kyiv the use of weapons such as Storm Shadow missiles deep inside Russia in a major policy shift.
‘Give us the tools, and we will finish the job’
Kyiv’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, which began on August 6, was both politically and militarily audacious.
Soviet-style purge ‘will drag us back to dark days’
A plan by Georgia’s government to ban pro-western parties will mean the return of dictatorship under Putin’s influence, the opposition’s Tina Bokuchava says.
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