Vladimir Putin

Kyiv says it will reject any Trump-Putin peace deal sealed without its input

Former defence secretary Ben Wallace warns against US-led ‘appeasement’ of Russia

Analysis: Washington’s intervention has boosted Russia’s hopes of achieving two key goals of its invasion

Nato head says any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring, any talks must include Kyiv

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

US president restates demand for Ukraine’s rare earth minerals

Donald Trump says he has spoken to Vladimir Putin about ending war in Ukraine

Kyiv believes Moscow behind deadly blasts at army draft offices around Ukraine

Russian missile strike on apartment block in Poltava kills at least seven and injures 14 including three children, say emergency services

In the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might end

Kremlin calls Zelenskiy ‘illegitimate’ leader who could not sign any peace deal for Kyiv

Scandals, ‘leaks’, army recruitment woes and Trump fears compound concerns over trajectory of war

Rite & Reason: In an era when leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cause havoc with their casual relationship with the truth, Aquinas offers an antidote

And where the war is felt more keenly than the winter, a thaw will be caused not by the sun’s rays, but by blast waves and heat from exploding shells and mines

Influential writers look at how the Chinese leader is moulding his country - and the West - to fit his vision

Kyiv says at least 200,000 European peacekeepers needed to oversee any ceasefire with Russia

Few clues as to how Trump will meet pledge to end Europe’s biggest war in 80 years

Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’

Closer military, energy and other co-operation planned under 20-year pact between Moscow and Tehran

Kyiv tells allies it would be ‘crazy to drop the ball’ when Trump returns to White House

Europe divided and afraid of ‘escalation’ as Moscow’s unacknowledged attacks become more reckless

Russian troops attempting to flank Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk oblast and have captured several nearby villages

Lt Yulia Mykytenko gives her eye witness account of the horrors of Russia’s attack in the context of Christmas and looming new year

Bugaev considered one of most promising defenders in country but alcohol and crime saw him on war’s front lines

Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe

Russian president salutes soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine as ‘true heroes’

Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed

Ilham Aliyev says he was ‘upset and surprised’ by versions of events around Azerbaijan Airlines crash put forward by Russian officials

Putin apologises to Azerbaijan’s Aliyev after Russian air defences apparently mistakenly shot down plane, killing 38

As communism turned to right-wing authoritarianism, Moscow became an immense version of Dodge City or Tombstone

Slovak PM Robert Fico has been outspoken opponent of EU military support for Kyiv during conflict

Ukrainian president accuses Putin of deliberately choosing Christmas for strike on energy system

John Bolton describes Trump’s decision-making as driven by personal relationships and ‘neuron flashes’, rather than a deep understanding of national interests

Putin vows to bring more ‘destruction’ to Ukraine after devastating drone attack on central Russian city of Kazan

Ukraine is still standing after more than 1,000 days of full-scale fighting with Russia, in the biggest war in Europe since 1945

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

At least one dead in Kyiv and six killed in Russia’s Kursk region

MacBride asked ‘if those vested with authority and power practice injustice, resort to torture and killing, is it not inevitable that those who are victims will react with similar methods?’

Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference

Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness