UK Defence Secretary John Healey has made headlines by saying that if given the chance to kidnap a world leader, he would detain Russian President Vladimir Putin and hold him accountable for war crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It comes after American special forces launched an audacious operation against another world leader on January 3. Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were snatched from the capital Caracas in the dead of night and flown back to the US to face court charges.

EADaily, January 12th, 2026. One of the main "liberal pillars" of anti-Kremlin propaganda, Yulia Latynina*, continues to demonstrate a radical revision of her views on Russia and Ukraine.

Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Vladimir Putin and sees him as a bigger obstacle to peace in Ukraine than Volodymyr Zelensky, according to sources.

Political analysts believe a potential US-backed regime change could shift control of Iranian oil, disrupt the supply of Shahed drones to Russia, and significantly weaken Moscow's global standing

Simon Migliano, who compiled the Top10VPN shutdown report, told me “Iran’s current nationwide blackout is a blunt instrument intended to crush dissent, starkly different from the sophisticated, slow-burn digital censorship we’re seeing in Russia.”

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has said that, if he could, he would want to abduct Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

President Vladimir Putin's launch of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile appears aimed at intimidating Ukraine and sending a signal of Russian military might to Europe and the United States at a crucial juncture in talks to end the war.

The US raid on Venezuela has exposed the limits of ties between Moscow and Caracas – while pointing the way for potential strategic opportunities for Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Washington’s new era of gunboat diplomacy.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signs up top spy an arch strategist Budanov as his political enforcer - putting the man Putin fears most of all at the very top of the Kyiv government