Europe has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin back into the G8 under a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.Russia was previously excluded from the political group in 2017 after its annexation of Crimea.

Russia is willing to endure tremendous human losses in the hopes that it will sap Ukraine of the resources and will to keep fighting. Ultimately, the Kremlin leader wants to regain political sway over Kyiv, reclaim Russia’s status as a great power and secure his place in history, Russia watchers say.

Sources claim the frustrated commander-in-chief erupted in fury just days after the latest plans to meet Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine collapsed, and the Kremlin strongman hailed a new doomsday weapon that could obliterate major cities on the East Coast.

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has given state awards to the developers of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater torpedo, the latest signal in what analysts have cast as efforts by the Kremlin to discourage the West from ...

MOSCOW — Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, declaring that the new weapon can't be intercepted. Putin's statement, which comes three days after he ...

LONDON — If President Donald Trump wants to make progress in negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he needs to put Tomahawk missiles back on the table for Ukraine instead of just fiddling with sanctions, according to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a ...