U.S. allies called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after a series of incidents raised alarm about growing Russian threats to Europe.

Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has said the UK will confront Russian planes violating Nato’s airspace as she warned Moscow of risking "direct armed confrontation" with the Western alliance.“We stand ready to take all steps necessary to defend Nato’s skies and Nato’s territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the next generation of the country's political leadership must be veterans of the Ukraine war. Putin made the comments during a meeting with different factions of the Russian State Duma and spoke of the participation of Ukraine war veterans in elections.

"If any troops appear there, especially now while fighting is ongoing, we assume that they will be legitimate targets," Putin says as the U.S. and Europe plan for a post-war Ukraine.

Russian fighter jets entered Estonian airspace on Friday in a significant escalation that threatens war with Europe—and the United States.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is deliberately slowing its economic growth in order to suppress inflation and that the world's second largest oil exporter was far away from a recession.

Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to Tara Reade, a former Biden Senate aide who accused the then-future president of sexual assault in 2020. An official Kremlin decree announcing Reade’s new citizenship identifies her as “Alexandra Tara McCabe,

Russian president is believed to have five children with three different women, but has never been seen in public with his sons and daughters

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Monday that the Kremlin was ready to limit the number of its deployed nuclear warheads and launchers for one more year as long as the United States did the same, a move that would maintain the caps imposed by the last remaining arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington.