Defiant Ukrainian president Zelenskyy poses for selfies on under-fire frontline

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Vladimir Putin has finally come clean over the reason why Russia invaded Ukraine — while also admitting that the current bloody conflict is “horrific”. The Russian president revealed that the war is all about regaining land and strengthening their collective hand.Speaking to a bunch of young entrepreneurs and specialists ahead of the St.

Russian President Vladimir Putin showed his "bizarrely comedic side" in a "chilling" display at a Q&A event, according to a body language expert. The despot recently fielded questions at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, seeming blissfully detached from the ongoing chaos caused by his invasion of Ukraine.

Antonio Ferme editorWhat does it mean to be a Time 100 honoree?For Jon Batiste, who recently dominated the Grammy Awards with five wins and a colorful performance of “Freedom,” he emphasized the importance of leaning into one’s power.“Lean into yourself because that’s your superpower,” Batiste told Variety on Wednesday night at the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center in New York City. “Genius is the one who is most like themselves. The leader is the one who is coming from a place of knowing in himself and can inspire other people.”The ceremony, hosted by “Shang-Chi” superstar Simu Liu, marked TIME’s first in-person event since 2019.

Vladimir Putin has claimed that it has become his responsibility to take back and strengthen Ukraine as he appeared to finally admit that the war was about returning land to Russia.

Ukrainian fighter pilot evaded a Russian missile lock with a series of astonishing evasive manoeuvres. The Top Gun-style footage shows the pilot of the Ukrainian Su-25 attack jet almost graze tree tops, fighting for their life in the Donbas region as it is locked on to from the ground. The clip starts with the pilot racing his jet above a road on which military vehicles can be seen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has delayed an annual live TV Q&A with members of the public amid rumours he faces hidden health problems.The Direct Line to Vladimir Putin event typically runs for three-to-four hours and has aired in June for four of the past five years, with the exception being during the Covid pandemic.It is thought that his rumoured health issues - which include supposed cancer and Parkinson's disease - may mean he is unable to remain on TV for that amount of time. Another theory suggests that the postponement may be due to fears that he'll be interrogated over his floundering invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has said he'll 'do anything' to make the nation's enemies 'disappear' in a foul-mouthed tirade against the West.Dmitry Medvedev, who served as head of state between 2008 and 2012 under Vladimir Putin's political influence, issued the new threats as global tensions continue to intensify over the war in Ukraine.The 56-year-old is now deputy head of the Kremlin's security council, with his latest barbs being seen by some Russia-watchers as an attempt at a full-scale political comeback in light of his boss's reputed ill-health.Referring to critics of the Putin regime in the West, he said on his Telegram channel: “I am often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh.“I respond – because I hate them. They are b*****s, degenerates.“They want death to us, to Russia.

Russian Wagner Group mercenary dubbed "The Executioner" has reportedly been taken out by a Ukrainian sniper. Vladimir Andonov, 44, is thought to have been shot dead in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.

battle for Ukraine’s Donbas region increasingly becomes the kind of grim slog that chewed up thousands of soldiers during the First World War, President Volodymyr Zelensky has given the clearest indication yet of the price Ukrainians are paying to defend their country.“We're losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action," he said.He admitted that the current situation in Donbas is “very difficult” but said that despite intense Russian pressure Ukrainian troops are “holding our defensive perimeter”.Relentless Russian artillery barrages are forcing the defenders to adopt century-old trench warfare tactics.Konstantinos Grivas, a professor of geopolitics and modern weapons systems at the Hellenic Military Academy in Athens, told Al Jazeera: “The Ukrainian resistance has begun to bend under the pressure of the enormous firepower the Russians are unleashing against it…“We’re seeing a war of super-high intensity. To win in this environment you have to be prepared to unleash a lot of destruction and to suffer great losses.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly being treated for cancer, according to US intelligence.High-ranking officials at three separate intelligence agencies made the assessment with reports emerging in US media. It comes after a period of prolonged speculation that the Russian leader is suffering from terminal ailments.“Putin is definitely sick,” an official from the office of the director of National Intelligence told Newsweek, while noting, “whether he’s going to die soon is just mere speculation.”Two other officials – one from the Defence Intelligence Agency and one retired Air Force officer – also claimed to have access to a comprehensive intelligence assessment of Putin’s health and said the outlook for the Russian leader is bleak, according to the report.The assessment supports the theory that Putin was missing from the world stage for much of April because he was undergoing treatment for advanced cancer.“Is Putin sick? Absolutely,” said the retired Air Force officer.

Kim Jong-un and North Korea have congratulated the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee.The country's foreign ministry confirmed on its website that the autocrat had sent a letter congratulating Her Majesty and the British people. The exact contents of his letter haven’t yet been revealed.North Korea and the UK established diplomatic relations in 2000 and have maintained embassies in each other’s capitals, despite a steady decline in relations.

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska is advocating for the importance of mental health during war.

Ukrainian soldiers are wearing their pride on their chest with a unicorn patch as an act of defiance against Russia and the country’s attempted erasure of LGBTQ+ people.Out LGBTQ soldiers currently fighting for Ukraine’s sovereignty from Russia have been donning unicorn patches to signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Russia as a whole, that they won’t be silenced. Back in 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. During that invasion, there was an overwhelming push by the Russian military to remove anyone from its ranks who identified as a part of the LGBTQ community.The Crimean Peninsula has historically been one of the few safe spots in Eastern Europe to be LGBTQ.

massive intercontinental ballistic missile that will be launched next week by Vladimir Putin's military.Although it is unclear on which missile is being used in the launch, residents of the Kamchatka region were warned by officials of the upcoming weapons test.The previous weapons test from Russian forces came on April 20, where despot Putin had his forces trial a Satan-2, a silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missile.Other launches are prepped for later in the year, with Russians set to test out their hypersonic 208-ton weaponry, also known as the Sarmat missile.Officials from Kamchatka issued a warning to those living nearby and tourists in the area that the missile test would be relatively soon, with a planned launch between June 6 and June 10.A statement from officials read: "We are announcing the upcoming launch and closing of the fall area for movements of people, equipment of all kinds, aviation flights and tourist groups." The Kura testing range is set to receive the blast, with officials warning that several areas were at risk of "the fall of the separating parts of the launch vehicle or its fragments".Areas at risk included the "eastern and south-eastern parts of the Tigilsky district, the southwestern part of the Karaginsky district and the north-western part of the Ust-Kamchatsky district of the Kamchatka region."The last test launch missile, Satan-2, was deployed in April this year, with Putin saying the new missile would ensure the security of Russia and make "those fierce people who are trying to threaten it" think again.The Russian president also claimed there would be "no analogues to this weapon in the world for a long time to come".Satan-2's April launch saw the 14-storey high missile blast off

chemical factoryAnalysts believe Russian leader Vladimir Putin has concentrated a major part of his invasion force near Severodonetsk in a bid to achieve complete control over the eastern Luhansk province. Victory in Luhansk could provide Putin with a face-saving “win” which would bring the campaign in Ukraine to an end – but in order to break through stiff Ukrainian resistance the Russian air force is subjecting Severodonetsk to round-the-clock bombing raids.

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Vladimir Putin may already be dead as rumours spiral about the Russian leader's death, MI6 sources say.

Russia has now lost 30,000 troops, 1,330 tanks, 207 planes and 174 helicopters during the war, according to Ukrainian officials.President Vladimir Putin is being forced to “conceal” the true scale of Russian losses in Ukraine to avoid the country’s citizens from accepting that they might not be winning the war, former UK foreign secretary, William Hague, has claimed.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.He said in a radio interview: "They’re very uncomfortable, and of course what they mean to him first of all is that he has to conceal them as much as possible from the Russian population, because he doesn’t want to admit that the Russian losses have been anything like that."Look at how he reacted – how the Russian government reacted – to the loss of the Moskva, which was to say that a fire had broken out and the seas were stormy and so on, and to not even admit that it might have been hit by the Ukrainians, which it clearly was."So what it means to Putin first of all is cover this up at all costs because people in Russia might realise what is going on."

Russia's despotic president Vladimir Putin are ramping up, as a Russian intelligence source has claimed that he has just three years to live.The FSB office has claimed that Putin has a “severe form of rapidly progressing cancer”.The Mirror reports how the unnamed spy also told that Putin is beginning to go blind.He said: “He has no more than two to three years to stay alive.“We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say.“They are so big each page can only hold a couple of sentences. His eyesight is seriously worsening.“And his limbs are now also shaking uncontrollably.” And the comments were backed up by the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Major-General Kyrylo Budanov.

Vladimir Putin has worked hard to maintain a masculine, hardman appearance – but pictures have exposed his steady decline from athletic KGB agent to a feeble nutter who struggles to hold his arm out.After the dictator seized the job of Russian President in 2000, he has carefully controlled his public image with a series of shots showing him in a range of physical activities, from winning judo tournaments to riding horses topless.But Putin’s macho looks have slowly evaporated from him over the past three years and his slim face has now been replaced by a bloated look.The physical power associated with the Russian leader has also vanished recently, with clips showing him resting his arms on a table and shaking as he speaks. It has led to suggestions that Putin himself is aware of his deteriorating health and that this is one of the reasons for his brutal invasion of Ukraine.