Brazil manufactures the Embraer plane involved in the crash that killed 38, likely caused by Russian missiles; Vladimir Putin apologises for the tragedy but stops short of acknowledging responsibility.
The nation’s top military officer in London has warned Russia’s use of North Korean and Iranian forces to destroy democratic Ukraine is ‘everyone’s business’ and said Australia’s role is vital.
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Finland detained the Russia tanker – part of Putin’s ‘dark fleet’ of sanctions busters amid calls for NATO to defend against growing incidents of sabotage blamed on Moscow.
In his last weeks in office, Joe Biden is planning sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, targeting the ships carrying Russian oil around the world and bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war chest.
The notion of a prison swap between a forlorn Australian vegan incongruously fighting on the battlefields of the Donbas and a grossly obese, sweaty man holed up in an apartment in Woollahra, claiming diplomatic protection, invites a raft of fat jokes.
US group Hostage Aid Worldwide says it has information that Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, is still alive, but didn’t offer concrete information on his whereabouts.
Simeon Boikov, who is holed up in the Russian embassy in Sydney, tells The Australian he’s ready to be swapped for a Melbourne man captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
A quiet suburban mum, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction, Vladimir Putin.
Speaking at the beginning of his annual marathon press conference, Vladimir Putin insisted Russia hadn’t suffered defeat in Syria and stays bullish on Ukraine.
With its appalling record of killing opponents, the Putin regime’s warning that editorial writers at our sister paper ‘are now legitimate military targets’ must be taken seriously.
It is a serious national embarrassment that Australia, alone among Western allies, has been the standout laggard and taken so long to restore our embassy to the Ukrainian capital.
The Ukrainian President says it doesn’t ‘have the strength to recover’ the stolen territories, calling for the international community to pressure Putin to come to the negotiating table.
A leader in The London Times about the assassination of a Russian general has led to serious threats from a key Putin ally. This is the article that caused Dmitri Medvedev to describe Times editors as ‘key military targets’.
Dmitri Medvedev said the ‘entire management team’ of The Times were military targets and warned ‘be careful’ after the paper ran a leader on Ukraine’s assassination of a Russian general.
The secret agency that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.’
Satellite imagery shows Russian troops preparing to load cargo at Moscow’s main air base in Syria, signalling the early stages of a military withdrawal from the country in a huge blow for Putin.
UAP leader Ralph Babet will take the Commonwealth to the High Court over what chairman Clive Palmer says are “unconstitutional” election laws.
Jewish leaders have accused Penny Wong of waging a ‘deeply cynical’ and obsessive campaign against Israel after she compared the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s democratic government with those of dictators Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
Moscow has downplayed the fall of its biggest ally in the Middle East, but the Kremlin’s credibility has been severely weakened by the war in Ukraine.
The new regime’s links to Islamic State and al-Qa’ida are a major worry, but the weakening of the positions of Russia and Iran is a positive.
The collapse of Vladimir Putin’s puppet regime in Syria has left allies and rivals wondering if he could throw Bashar al-Assad under the bus for Ukraine, how strong is he really?
The crisis in Damascus threatens Russian and Iranian influence over Syria, and deals a further blow to what remains of Hezbollah.
An item printed with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s face has been found in the door cavities of a car during a police search.
The security of the Western world and all democratic nations would be gravely compromised if Donald Trump fails to see the importance of ensuring that Putin does not win in Ukraine.
A new phase has opened up in the Syrian civil war.
Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump as an ‘experienced and intelligent’ politician, while saying Russia’s new medium-range ballistic missile could target ‘decision-making centres’ in Kyiv.
Vladimir Putin’s youngest daughter is living in Paris under a pseudonym, according to a Ukrainian television station.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow could strike the Ukrainian capital with its new ‘Oreshnik’ hypersonic missile, after an aerial attack in ‘response’ to Kyiv’s use of Western-supplied missiles.
Calin Georgescu, 62, has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and argues the “imperialist” Western military-industrial complex is behind the Ukraine war.
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