A studio official said the president's appearance in Prostokvashino would be a form of "soft power" that would help to promote Russia and its culture.

President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' “holy mission” to defend Russia, pairing the ceremony with a holiday address on unity, charity and support for the armed forces.

President Trump refuted the Kremlin’s accusations that Ukraine targeted a residence of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, doubting such an attack ever took place.

Former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said an agreement by the coalition of the willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine has left Vladimir Putin unsure what to do next

The Kremlin leader kept his speech short, spoke only briefly about the fighting in Ukraine, and did not mention U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war.

The newly re-elected president of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadera, has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit his country, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.

More Russian soldiers are starting mutiny and show signs of ill discipline as they demand to be removed from the frontline around Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region

Russia's foreign minister said Ukraine had attacked the Russian president's state residence with drones, while Kyiv called the accusation a lie.

Zelensky didn’t hold back when pressed about the US toppling Maduro’s regime after President Trump ordered airstrikes on military sites around the Venezuelan capital of Caracas early

President Donald Trump said that U.S. national security officials have determined that Ukraine did not target a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack last week.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signs up top spy an arch strategist Budanov as his political enforcer - putting the man Putin fears most of all at the very top of the Kyiv government