The former Russian president is threatening the West over calls for an international tribunal over the invasion of Ukraine.
It’s not just about its enclave in Kaliningrad. It’s also about a cluster islands in the far north of Norway.
The country’s citizens resisted joining NATO for decades, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed minds quickly.
It’s propaganda to counter its own very real blockade of Ukrainian grain shipments.
He calls Ukraine a colony of the U.S. at the same time he says Russia must regain its lost territory.
It’s weakening Ukraine with strikes on grain storage and transport facilities while its own exports are having a bumper year.
A top Putin adviser dredges up conspiracies about a cabal of bankers controlling the U.S. and the U.K.
The Russian proxy inside Georgia has allowed some freedoms in its elections, and that has caused some unwanted surprises.
Stories that he is ill may be true. They may be wrong. Or they might be part of a disinformation campaign.
Russian forces captured the city early on, but keeping it requires resources they might prefer to use elsewhere.