Tag: Vladimir Putin
-
Ukraine crisis: Russia’s president, Putin warns of global catastrophe
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any direct clash of Nato troops with Russia would lead to a “global catastrophe”.
-
Ukraine reclaims more territory in region captured by Russia
Ukraine said its forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of four partially Russian-occupied regions that President Vladimir Putin formally incorporated into Russia in Europe’s biggest annexation since World War II. With Russian forces retreating from front lines in the south and east, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a late Wednesday address that…
-
Vladimir Putin: A nuclear-armed incarnate of Adolf Hitler – By Dennis Onakinor
As the Nazi German leader, who sought to impose on the world his totalitarian ideology rooted in Aryan racial superiority dogma, the story of the meteoric rise and ignominious fall of Adolf Hitler between 1933 – 1945 is well-known. What is not well-known is whether Hitler, who went by the title of “Der Further” (The…
-
Putin declares Ukrainian provinces as part of Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared four Ukrainian provinces to be part of the Russian Federation as he signed a document to formally annex the regions occupied by Moscow’s troops.
-
Putin: Loneliness of the Tyrant – By Chidi Amuta
Tyrants and mad men suffer a common ailment: they are condemned to a feeling of loneliness and a routine of endless wandering in search of what they alone understand. No other world leader at the present time better illustrates this ancient folk wisdom than Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
-
British PM slams Putin after missile hits mall in Ukraine
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin’s “cruelty and barbarism” after a missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine left scores feared dead. The prime minister said the attack, on the day Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the G7 summit, would strengthen the resolve of allies to resist Putin.
-
RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: Putin warns West on arms
Following Western military supplies for Ukraine, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has warned that any deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck. The Russian leader’s cryptic threat of military escalation did not specify what the new targets might be. It came days after the United States announced…
-
Vladimir Putin and the curse of swaggering militarism – By Dennis Onakinor
Until February 24, 2022, when he launched Russia’s ongoing brutal and bloody military campaign in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin had cultivated the admirable public persona of an astute intellectual with a predilection for populist nationalism and social liberalism.
-
Biden accuses Putin of aiming to destroy Ukraine’s identity
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of Russia of trying to destroy Ukraine’s identity. According to Biden, this is as witnessed by Russian bombardments of civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, daycare centres and museums.
-
UK sanctions Vladimir Putin’s daughters
Vladimir Putin’s daughters have been sanctioned by Britain under measures to target the lavish lifestyles of the Russian president’s inner circle over the invasion of Ukraine. The Foreign Office announced travel bans and asset freezes against Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova on Friday. Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov’s daughter, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova, also…