The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Need for greater military autonomy also accepted, says report for Munich Security Conference, which takes place this week

Kyiv says its military still holds on in northern part of Pokrovsk and is defending a smaller city nearby

“Russia has to continue the war because this war is too big for Putin to fail.”

Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly sought to build links with Russia’s top leadership, including President Vladimir Putin, though there is no evidence he ever succeeded, newly released US Justice Department documents suggest.

Man in his 60s ‘arrested and handed over to Russia’ after fleeing to UAE, according to media reports

COMMENT: Britain has been enfeebled by years of top-level scandals that have gone unpunished, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley. No wonder young people don’t feel their country is worth fighting for

Three million documents are supposed to explain everything — but do they?

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni

Vladimir Putin’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice. The release, comprising more than three million pages of documents, emails and images, has prompted fresh scrutiny of Epstein’s international contacts.

New reports suggest that US negotiators are hoping to wrap up talks within weeks

This documentary about Nato’s readiness for war seems intended to provoke a mix of terror and arousal in the goggling, flag-hugging viewer. It’s terminally dull stuff