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Image source, EPA Russia's plan to expand its armed forces is unlikely to have an impact on the Ukraine war, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said. Vladimir Putin recently signed a decree to increase the Russian armed forces' military personnel to more than 1.15m - a potential increase of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo / AP At least four members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle have been assassinated in recent weeks, and now attention is turning to who could be next on the bloody hit list. Last weekend, Darya Dugina – the 29-year-old daughter of Putin's so-called "spiritual guide"…

Russia’s president has signed a decree which could see 137,000 service personnel added to the country’s armed forces in the coming months. Currently, Russia has a limit of just over a million military personnel and almost 900,000 civilian staff. Vladimir Putin’s decree comes amid a recruitment drive around the country,…

In response to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's message of congratulations on Ukraine's Independence Day, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that it hoped the ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin would be reunited with two leaders who were executed by their own people. "Yesterday, on our Independence Day, the dictator Lukashenko…

Showdown in Bali Indonesian President Joko Widodo told Bloomberg that both Xi and Putin plan to attend the Group of 20 summit in person in November. The meeting will likely be highly contentious: Of the G20 members, 15 nations voted to “deplore in the strongest terms the aggression by the…

Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. HOME News Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Finance Travel Entertainment Life & Style UK Politics World Royal Science Weather Weird History Obituaries Nature Sunday InYourArea ENERGY companies have begun ramping up natural gas production in the North Sea, as Britain imported no…

After two years of declines in the number of girls taking the GCSE computing exam, figures out today show a rebound to 2019 levels of participation in the subject By Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor Published: 25 Aug 2022 15:00 A rebound in the number of female students opting to sit…

Russian opposition figure Yevgeny Roizman said he was detained by security forces in Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, on Wednesday for comments he made about Putin's war on Ukraine. Driving the news: Roizman, who served as mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013-2018, was charged with "public dissemination of deliberately false information about…

Kaycee Valmonte - Philstar.com August 24, 2022 | 4:04pm In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidency press office on August 23, 2022 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony to mark the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine in Kyiv. AFP / STR / UKRAINE…

When I woke up on the morning of February 24 to the news that Russia was invading Ukraine, my first thought was about my brother. He had been in Lviv, in Western Ukraine, on a business trip. In our family group chat, my sister-in-law told us from their home in…