Oleg Ignatov from the International Crisis Group told Newsweek this week's incidents delivered the worst setback for Putin ...

Russian military aircraft are crashing ... daily on state television — has given Mr. Putin broad license to continue fighting, even amid setbacks. The Russian president remains convinced that ...

Two months later, the Russian military experienced yet another major blow to its prestige, this time in Kherson. Putin appointed Gen. Sergey Surovikin as the head of all Russian forces in Ukraine ...

In the face of battlefield setbacks, the Russian leader ... toward Russians who have misgivings about the military adventure in Ukraine. Putin's moves will need time to play out on the battlefield.

Russian and Western military analysts agree that ... clear it could ban all energy exports, a lever Putin has yet to pull. After its setback in north-east Ukraine, Russia struck Ukrainian ...

The pact signed by Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un envisions mutual military assistance if either country is attacked. The new agreement marked their strongest link since the end of the ...

Previous attacks by Ukraine inside Russia have triggered retaliatory strikes and increasingly threatening rhetoric from the ...

It was Groundhog Day in Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace. On one side of the grand conference room sat a long row of slab-faced ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria represents a personal defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a potentially serious strategic setback for his military that undermines Moscow’s ...

President Vladimir Putin's aide Yury Ushako's remark goes against India's assertion that the ‘pause in fighting’ was achieved ...