Russia

Here in Ukraine the battle against Russian forces goes on remorselessly. But in Russia it’s the reverberations of yesterday’s extraordinary events that are still being felt. President Putin is reported to have spoken again on the phone to President Lukashenko of neighbouring Belarus, who yesterday brokered the deal that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin order his Wagner…

We’re joined by Candace Rondeaux, who is director of the Future Frontlines initiative at the New America think-tank, and professor at the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She has covered the rise of the Wagner Group since 2018. And by Arkady Ostrovsky is the Russia and Eastern Europe Editor of…

We speak to Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko about the developments in Russia.

An armed mutiny, a betrayal, a knife in the back – and a visibly angry Vladimir Putin speaking after the tanks and armoured vehicles of the Wagner Group of soldiers – supposedly fighting on his behalf – seize the city of Rostov-on-Don and take control of military sites in an audacious act of rebellion. The…

The UK government has called a Cobra meeting to discuss the unfolding events in Russia.

The people of Kherson had already lived through months of Russian occupation. 

Huge rescue and evacuation efforts are underway in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson after the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam.

We spoke to Evgeny Popov, an MP for President Putin’s United Russia party and a host of the 60 Minutes political news programme.

Ukraine’s long awaited summer offensive – months in the making – isn’t yet materialising as expected.

The head of the private Russian mercenary group, Wagner, has said his troops are handing over the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to regular Russian forces.

The Russian president Vladimir Putin has claimed “a real war has been unleashed again” against his country – at a distinctly scaled back parade through Moscow’s Red Square, marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender. Mr Putin used the occasion to justify Russia’s war in Ukraine – flanked by a handful of leaders from former…

At least 3 civilians have been killed and dozens injured after Russia launched another wave of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine during the night.

We spoke to American financier, Bill Browder, who was once one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia. He later became an anti-corruption campaigner and one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics; and we asked him who he thinks is behind the drone attack.

The sound of gunfire is resounding over Kyiv tonight as troops try to shoot down Russian armoured drones attacking the city. Earlier in the day, Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an unexpected appearance at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The Ukrainian president said that his Russian counterpart “deserves to be sentenced” and called for a…

We’re joined by professor Joshua Tucker, who’s director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.