Vladimir Putin is planning a missile strike on a NATO country, according to Western intelligence. The Russian president, 73, has come under increased pressure after a bruising summer in his war against Ukraine,

Russia’s upcoming election is expected to cement United Russia’s dominance, but voter turnout and its margin of victory could offer clues to public discontent.

VLADIMIR Putin targeted France with hybrid attacks, Emmanuel Macron has said. The Russian tyrant is stepping up his shadow warfare campaign against Nato – with terrifying drone plots and

Vladimir Putin has been dealt a double blow. The Russian president has had the focus of the war flipped back on him and his country over the summer and is now suffering under the pressure of brutal Ukrainian attacks and domestic crises.

In May, Russia's state-controlled polling agency VTsIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center) changed its methodology after Putin’s approval rating dropped to 65.5 percent, a slump of 12.2 percentage points since December and the lowest level since the start of the war.

The war has become a ruinous contest of drone and missile attacks that, while devastating to Ukraine, are inflicting visible damage on Russia too. But Mr Putin shows no sign of backing off. The worry is that he may try to escape from what Russians call a tupik (dead-end) as he has in the past: by finding some new way to escalate the conflict.

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VLADIMIR Putin is set to expand Russia’s war with Ukraine across Europe using missiles, drones and hybrid attacks, spy chiefs say.   Western intelligence officials believe the tyrant is