AS Vladimir Putin celebrates 25 years of rule over Russia, his first speech as president resurfaced showing a slew of broken promises and the emergence of a very different leader. A quarter of a century ago on New Year’s Eve, Putin was entrusted with the Kremlin for the first time. 12 Vladimir… Watch Putin’s first speech … Read more
SOME 25 years ago today Vladimir Putin seized power – but despite his tyrannical rule his fragile regime always sits just one step from collapse. The bloodthirsty tyrant could go the way of his deposed Syrian dictator pal Bashar al-Assad if he isn’t able to win the war in Ukraine and continue… 25 years ago … Read more
A SHADOWY Russian ship sabotaged a key power cable by dragging its anchor on the seabed for dozens of miles, Finnish authorities fear. As well as rupturing the Estlink 2 power cable in the Gulf of Finland, four other communication lines were also damaged in a suspected deliberate act of… Putin’s shadowy ‘ghost ship’ dragged … Read more
THIS is the moment cops storm a Russian oil tanker filled with “spy gear” that is suspected of cutting a deep sea cable. Bombshell images show the Finnish law enforcement boarding the ship via chopper as Nato begins to boost patrols. 6 The moment Finnish police seize the Russian-linked shadow… Moment cops storm Russian oil … Read more
RUSSIA misidentified the Azerbaijan plane for a drone and shot it down with a missile, US intelligence believes. The Christmas Day disaster saw the aircraft explode into a fireball near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38. 9 The crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger planeCredit:… Russia ‘mistook Azerbaijan plane for drone & shot it down with … Read more
RUSSIA tried to cover up its deadly missile hit on a passenger plane by jamming its navigation systems, it was claimed yesterday. The move was to drive the stricken Azerbaijan Airlines flight away from Russian territory, hoping it would crash in the sea to thwart efforts to find what brought it… Russia ‘tried to cover … Read more
A BRAVE flight attendant of the doomed missile-blasted jet told terrified passengers that “everything will be fine”. Crew, including Captain Igor Kshnyakin and co-pilot Aleksandr Kalyaninov, desperately tried to save the plane after it was reportedly fatally struck by a missile over Chechnya,… How brave pilots battled to save Russian missile-blasted jet as crew told … Read more
RUSSIAN air defences shot down a passenger plane over Kazakhstan on Christmas Day killing 38 in a fireball crash, government sources have said. Azerbaijani government investigation reportedly found the plane was hit by the Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 4 Emergency specialists work at the… Russia ‘shot down plane’ in Kazakhstan killing 38 in Xmas … Read more
THE haunting final diary entry written by a North Korean soldier sent to die for Vladimir Putin has been uncovered. The 27-year-old fighter was killed by Ukrainian Special Forces in an operation inside the Kursk region of Russia. 8 The first diary of a North Korean soldier fighting for Russia has… Haunting last diary entry … Read more
A BRAVE Ukrainian teen saved her brother from Vladimir Putin’s child snatchers after he was illegally adopted by a “brainwashing” Russian family. Ksenia, then 18, and Serhii Koldin, from Kharkiv, were separated after she was forced to attend a Russian school and he was sent to one of… How one brave Ukrainian teenager went on … Read more