Russia’s President Putin has been joined by China’s Xi Jinping and more than 20 international leaders as his country remembered the end of World War Two in Europe with a huge parade in Moscow. The annual Victory Day spectacle is always eye-catching, but BBC Monitoring’s Russia Editor Vitaly Shevchenko says three things in particular stood...
The prime minister is set to impose a new wave of sanctions on Russian oil tankers, which are being used to avoid existing sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. Number 10 has said action will be taken against up to 100 vessels which have carried more than £18 billion worth of cargo since the...
Ukraine peace talks are back on the front pages amid reports of a controversial proposal to end the fighting. Donald Trump will allow Vladimir Putin to keep almost all the territory he seized from Ukraine under the terms of a proposed peace deal, the Daily Telegraph reports. The seven-point proposal, which would see the US...
The status of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine leads in Tuesday’s Metro, under the headline “Putin’s brutal peace offering”, as air strikes directed by the Kremlinb continue. The paper cites Ukrainian reports that the Russian military injured 74 people – among them 14 children – in strikes on homes and a hospital, on the...
