Vladimir Putin

The case for confiscating $300bn worth of frozen Russian assets is clear

If the UK was part of a Europe-wide army there would be sufficient forces to protect Ukraine without the need for US assistance

Thanks to Putin’s aggression and Trump’s greed, the UK has regained its international status

The disastrous Oval Office meeting with Zelensky showed that Trump is slavishly devoted to Putin. Why?

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

In these worryingly unpredictable times, the UK needs to be fully engaged with the EU, for our own safety, security and prosperity

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa

As the country’s courts become more Russian, the real Georgia can be found out on the streets

A vote at the United Nations made it very clear what he thinks of America’s former allies across the Atlantic

Donald Trump is cuddling up to Putin while telling Ukraine: “First pay me, then feed your children”

Experts say the military alliance may become ‘dormant’ - and a European army remains just a pipe dream

Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

Two new books on the current threat to western democracy come to very different conclusions about who’s to blame and what to do about it

The country’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk wants forgotten victims released and war criminals punished. But those hopes seem further away than ever

Not even his shocked closest allies know what drove Donald Trump’s Ukraine sell-out

As Donald Trump begins his sell out of Ukraine, one novelist reflects how, despite Putin’s brutality, Zelensky has held Ukraine together. Is Trump’s America about to change this?

A sham election has given Alexander Lukashenka a seventh term as president of Belarus. But his fate is now tied to forces beyond the ballot box

For the west, when dealing with Russia, it turned out that the Cold War was our comfort zone. But after the Berlin Wall came down, how did the Russian dream die?

The Ukraine invasion and Musk’s Twitter buyout of Twitter show how weak accountability is in authoritarian regimes and among ultra-rich tech titans

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reignited fears in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

It’s not the first time the Slovak leader allowed himself to be used as a tool of Kremlin propaganda – it won’t be the last

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

Zelensky has done all he can. But as the final sell-out approaches, the west has not done nearly enough

A secret armada of condemned tankers is breaking sanctions by transporting Russian oil around the world. The threat to the environment is huge

Assad’s survival was Putin’s way of showing he was still a global player. When the collapse came, he was powerless to prevent it

The 23-year-old hopes to, one day, return to Russia and help make it a free country. She's certainly her father's daughter

Sweden is now a Nato member and Russia is escalating its threats against the country

Under Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s Orthodox Church has seen its power restored – but only by debasing the faith

Britain and Europe are up against an alliance of evil. Now is the time to resist Russia, and for the UK to lead by example

Călin Georgescu is a textbook post-truth politician: a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, and moon landing sceptic

Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump