Vladimir Putin

Putin orders new offensive

24 May 2025 2:44 am

‘You want a ceasefire? I want your death,’ said Russia’s chief propagandist Vladimir Soloviev during prime time television, the camera…

What does Putin want? Whatever he can get away with

3 May 2025 9:00 am

The US general Mark Clark knew a thing or two about dealing with Russians. In the aftermath of the defeat…

Putin is outwitting Trump

22 March 2025 9:00 am

In the incessant conflicts of life and politics, people who know what they want tend to win. That is why…

Does might make right?

15 March 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin both believe that might is right. The whole question fascinated the ancient Greeks. In his…

I’m a culture war addict

8 March 2025 9:00 am

Reading Melissa Lawford’s excellent analysis in the Sunday Telegraph, ‘Putin can’t afford peace – Russia’s economy is hooked on war’,…

Trump is like Shakespeare’s Fool

8 February 2025 9:00 am

President Trump’s role in relation to other countries resembles that of the Fool in Shakespeare. He provides a sort of…

The international criminal justice system was prejudiced from the start

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Double standards have existed since its foundation in 1945, with the most powerful nations determining who should be held accountable for war crimes

Meet the western conservatives moving to Russia

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Tofurious Maximus Crane was sitting in a barber’s chair in Moscow when he received the greatest news of his life.…

Ukraine’s Nato fantasy

19 October 2024 9:00 am

Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in Downing Street last week – as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik – asking…

What’s the real aim of Ukraine’s Russian offensive?

17 August 2024 9:00 am

On Monday morning, Vladimir Putin was briefed about Ukraine’s audacious invasion of Russian territory. With his military chiefs in front…

The new alliances dedicated to destroying democracy

27 July 2024 9:00 am

Despite their diverse ideologies, autocracies in China, Iran, Russia and Latin America are increasingly collaborating to sabotage a rules-based international order

From the front line of the battle to save Kharkiv

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Kharkiv region Moonlight shines on the wings of the reconnaissance drone as it glides over the field. Within minutes, the…

What I saw at the Okhmatdyt bomb site

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Kyiv For weeks, Kyiv had felt relatively safe compared with just about everywhere else in Ukraine. People had adjusted to…

Brexit has helped the EU

6 July 2024 9:00 am

There was hardly an election poster to be seen on the roadside during a two-hour drive from London to the…

Putin is trying to annexe people, not just land

29 June 2024 9:00 am

On 1 September 2021, six months before his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was speaking at the All-Russian Children’s…

My return to Ukraine

29 June 2024 9:00 am

I arrive at Lviv station just before 9 a.m. As the clock strikes, the conductor announces a minute’s silence: a daily…

Ukraine’s greatest, yet least publicised success

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Odessa Our conference here is about Black Sea security, where I am the guest of UK Friends of Ukraine. Its…

Zelensky’s peace summit flop

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Ukraine’s allies are running out of patience

Why Russia’s ‘king of the kickback’ was arrested

28 April 2024 11:19 pm

The universal corruption of the Russian elite suits Vladimir Putin. When everyone has a skeleton in their closet, power rests…

Russia will not attack Nato

9 March 2024 5:00 pm

There is a lot of war fever about. In January, Grant Shapps, Britain’s tiggerish defence secretary, said the UK was…

Why the US will decide Ukraine’s fate

2 September 2023 9:00 am

The US will decide Ukraine’s fate

Russia’s long history of smears, sabotage and barefaced lies

12 August 2023 9:00 am

Mark Hollingsworth describes how the KGB became the world’s most industrious conspiracy-theory factory, with its agents of influence dedicated to sowing maximum confusion

The Ukrainian war is coming to Moscow

5 August 2023 9:00 am

War is coming home to Moscow

Igor Girkin’s arrest was a long time coming

22 July 2023 11:36 pm

With the reported arrest on Friday of Igor Girkin (aka ‘Strelkov’ or ‘Igor the Terrible’) the career of one of…