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Why plummeting oil price could finally undo Putin: As Ukraine hits refineries, Russia's economy is struggling and rare anti-Vladimir protests are breaking out which could topple the tyrant

01/11/25 10:14

Vladimir Putin is this weekend approaching a perfect storm as world oil prices plummet, just as a combination of Western sanctions and Ukraine's concerted strikes on refineries begin to bite. His war economy - after defying gravity for several years - is now starting to creak with ordinary Russians, especially, badly hit in their pockets, and worse to come....read

NATO forces shoot down mystery drone near US military base in Estonia
29/10/25 09:48
Two drones were spotted near Camp Reedo, home to the US Army's 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, on October 17.
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Husband 'kills and skins his wife after she refused to prepare chicken soup'
28/10/25 09:31
Rafis Khuzin, 56, has been detained after confessing to police that he stabbed wife Olga Blinova, 49, to death with a large kitchen knife on October 17 in the Russia city of Berezovsky.
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Russia gives chocolates to US officials emblazoned with Putin rants
27/10/25 02:36
Chocolates from Vladimir Putin with his rants emblazoned on them such as 'it's better to hit first' were presented to US officials today.
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Putin's 'goddaughter' is 'looking to get away from repressive Russia and move to Spain'
27/10/25 01:39
Ksenia Sobchak, who is a TV presenter, politician and influencer, is said to have applied for residency in Spain.
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Bride kills herself after groom's family criticised her 'revealing' and 'provocative' wedding dress
27/10/25 12:02
Lyaman Mammadli, 19, was accused of looking 'naked' on her big day because her shoulders were left uncovered.
Newborn baby killed 'after being thrown from fourth-floor window by five-year-old sister'
26/10/25 07:24
Paramedics confirmed the 21-day-old's death at the scene after falling onto concrete from a residential building in Vasilyevo village, Russia.
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Move over Love Hearts! Chocolates presented to Trump officials from Russia are emblazoned with Putin rants like 'it's better to hit first'
26/10/25 03:47
Chocolates from Vladimir Putin with his rants emblazoned on them such as 'it's better to hit first' were presented to US officials today.
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Putin triggers WWIII fears as he boasts of 'Flying Chernobyl' missiles with unlimited range which could kill millions
26/10/25 09:52
In a chilling World War Three warning, he revealed a 'successful' secret flight on October 21 of the Burevestnik doomsday winged rocket which has an 'unlimited range'.
Ukraine pounds Putin oil refinery with drones hours after Trump imposed sanctions on Moscow's oil giants - as Russia faces power blackouts and queues for petrol
23/10/25 08:48
The strike set the massive Ryazan refinery ablaze overnight, sending flames above one of the country's largest industrial plants.
Panic at 33,000ft as overhead luggage locker bursts into flames on crowded Airbus forced to make emergency landing
18/10/25 01:37
The Air China A312 Airbus had departed Hangzhou and was headed for Seoul, South Korea , when a fire broke out at 33,000ft due to an overheated power bank.
Putin mocks Trump with new strikes on Ukraine after Zelensky failed to win promise on Tomahawk missiles from US president
18/10/25 08:01
Putin's latest attack comes after Trump on Friday refused Ukraine's demands for Tomahawk missiles in a tense meeting in Washington between the US president and Zelensky.
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Teen girl jailed for 13 days after leading anti-Putn song
16/10/25 02:10
A teenager who led a huge crowd in singing an anti-Putin song in St Petersburg has been jailed after hundreds of Russians called for the dictator to be overthrown in a rare show of public dissent.
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Teenage girl who led huge crowd singing anti-Putin song in St Petersburg is jailed for 13 days after the rare show of dissent sparked fury among Russian officials
16/10/25 01:49
A teenager who led a huge crowd in singing an anti-Putin song in St Petersburg has been jailed after hundreds of Russians called for the dictator to be overthrown in a rare show of public dissent.
Woman 'is tricked into travelling to Thailand for fake modelling job and killed so her organs can be harvested'
16/10/25 01:03
Vera Kravtsova, 26, originally from Belarus, flew to Bangkok to secure what she believed would be a modelling job, but was taken across the border to Myanmar by a brutal gang.
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Grave robber who turned dead girls into DOLLS could be freed next month
15/10/25 09:15
Anatoly Moskvin, 59, lived with the bodies, dressing them in stockings, clothes and knee length boots. He also applied lipstick and make-up to their faces.
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Assad's new life in luxury 1,000ft Moscow skyscraper revealed: How exiled Syrian ruler 'spends his days playing video games' in plush flat and country villa - as Kremlin breaks silence on poisoning rumours
13/10/25 11:48
The deposed leader, branded the 'Butcher' for killing his own people, has found a new life in a plush tower after he was toppled in December, bringing an end to 24 years of dictatorship.
Report: Trump 'will supply long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine'
11/10/25 12:45
Ukraine's foreign ministry said Washington and Kyiv are engaged in 'a very detailed and active discussion about the possibility of providing these missiles'.
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Trump 'will supply long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine' as Russia yet again blacks out Ukrainian cities with brutal strikes
11/10/25 10:42
Ukraine's foreign ministry said Washington and Kyiv are engaged in 'a very detailed and active discussion about the possibility of providing these missiles'.
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Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window
06/10/25 08:13
The secretive head of Pravda publishing house, Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, plunged 70ft from his home in western Moscow .
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Report: Ex-Syrian president hospitalized after poisoning attempt
02/10/25 01:11
A source claimed that Assad 'had been poisoned' in an assassination operation.
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Former Syrian president Bashar Assad 'is hospitalised by poisoning assassination attempt', respected rights group says
02/10/25 11:05
A source claimed that Assad 'had been poisoned' in an assassination operation.
Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test
01/10/25 03:15
Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements as part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.
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Russia stages nationwide nuclear war alarm test amid mounting WW3 fears a day after Trump warned Putin he has more nukes than anyone else
01/10/25 02:23
Sirens blared with loudspeaker announcements as part of a system designed to warn the population in the event of war or a chemical or biological attack.
Terrifying moment killer bear attacks man during city rampage that left a woman, 84, dead and saw boy, 12, survive mauling by playing dead
25/09/25 07:42
This is the moment a man miraculously cheated death today by clambering into his Toyota when a giant wild brown bear pounced on him.
Ukrainian, 19, 'is caught disguised as a granny while attempting to assassinate Russian defence official'
18/09/25 01:57
The 'car bomber' collected an explosive device stashed in a cemetery in St Petersburg, according to the FSB security service.
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Putin's TV propagandist gives away secret location of drone unit
18/09/25 01:31
Solovyov is a highly-paid state TV propagandist for Putin and the war - and the careless blunder failing to mask the toilet signs in a report about Rubicon is a huge embarrassment.
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Putin's blundering TV propagandist gives away top secret location of Russia's most elite drone unit
18/09/25 11:43
Solovyov is a highly-paid state TV propagandist for Putin and the war - and the careless blunder failing to mask the toilet signs in a report about Rubicon is a huge embarrassment.
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Putin dons his military fatigues to visit Zapad war games
16/09/25 07:45
Vladimir Putin wore his military fatigues today on a visit to the Zapad 2025 war games around 500 miles away from the nearest frontline, while his trooped unleashed a drone in Kharkiv, east Ukraine.
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Putin dons his military fatigues to visit Zapad war games 500miles from the frontline - while his troops blow up blocks of flats in Kharkiv
16/09/25 07:22
In the Nizhny Novgorood region, the Kremlin leader, 72, chose to wear the army uniform and a pair of Strekoza tactical glasses ahead of US President Trump's arrival at Windsor.
Mother deemed 'safe' despite dropping young daughter into a bear's enclosure 'stabs the child to death'
15/09/25 01:46
Zilola Tulyaganova, 34, was filmed dropping her helpless child, Zarina, then aged three, some 16ft into a trench inside the cage in Tashkent Zoo in 2022.
Notorious 'Tinder Swindler' is detained in Georgia three years after he was made famous by Netflix documentary
15/09/25 10:07
Shimon Yehuda Hayut, 35, from Israel, was reportedly detained yesterday morning after landing at Batumi International airport, according to Walla.
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NATO could spark all-out war with Russia if it shoots down drones over Ukraine, Moscow warns as Europe bolsters its borders amid invasion fears
15/09/25 08:33
Medvedev wrote on Telegram that he was 'amused' by Europe's 'Eastern Sentry' mission, a plan involving to contribute materiel towards bolstering its frontier
NATO scrambles war planes in Romania and Poland after Putin flies military drone over Romanian territory in latest Kremlin test of Europe's mettle
14/09/25 09:23
Sirens sounded and an air raid threat was declared as Warsaw announced Polish and allied fighter jets were operating due to Russian drones buzzing border regions of Ukraine.
Dad of Ukrainian killed on train couldn't attend funeral due to war
11/09/25 10:07
Stanislav Zarutskyi was 'devastated' not to be able to pay his last respects after his beautiful daughter was brutally stabbed to death on a train, allegedly by career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr.
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Father of Ukrainian refugee who was knifed to death on North Carolina train could not attend her funeral due to ban on travel for fighting-age men: Tributes pour in for 'passionate artist'
10/09/25 08:08
Stanislav Zarutskyi was 'devastated' not to be able to pay his last respects after his beautiful daughter was brutally stabbed to death on a train, allegedly by career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr.
NATO warns Putin after Poland airspace violation
10/09/25 12:44
Mark Rutte told Putin to 'stop violating allied airspace, and know that we stand ready, that we are vigilant, and that we will defend every inch of NATO territory
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Putin 'testing the West' as Poland shoots down drones
10/09/25 07:43
Observers have indicated that with this, Putin may be laying the groundwork for a future invasion of Poland or other NATO nations.
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'We are closer to war than any time since WW2': Poland PM issues warning and says to invoke NATO treaty Article 4 as Putin's suicide drones are pictured on alliance soil after being shot down overnight
10/09/25 06:57
Observers have indicated that with this, Putin may be laying the groundwork for a future invasion of Poland or other NATO nations.
Poland shoots down Russian suicide drones that invaded its airspace: Dramatic escalation sees Nato nation's first clashes with Putin's forces since Ukraine war began - US F35 among fighter jets involved in mission to neutralise the craft
09/09/25 11:46
The nation was forced to scramble its air defenses in the early hours of Wednesday to take out the craft in what is said to be its first engagement since the Ukraine war began.
Baby and woman killed during Putin's record 800 drone attack on Ukraine as NATO scramble warplanes
07/09/25 07:51
The 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old son died in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, with dozens of people injured in the Russian terror.
Father sneaks his son into water park at night so they have the place to themselves for 'the best birthday ever'
02/09/25 12:21
The pair were caught on security cameras splashing in the pools, swimming, and using the water slides.
Mother falls 290ft to her death taking a selfie in front of her son on 45th birthday moments after successful bungee jump
01/09/25 11:01
Elizaveta 'Liza' Gushchina 'slipped and fell' 290ft to her death from the same tower which she made a spectacular high-adrenaline rope jump from just minutes earlier as she celebrated her birthday
NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin launches night attack on Ukraine
30/08/25 02:59
The bombardment of 537 drones and 45 missiles unleashed by Russian forces caused yet more death and destruction as civilians and energy and rail facilities were targeted.
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Moscow wades into case of missing British boy, three - saying Putin's regime must 'do everything possible' to protect Russian's mother right to keep the boy if she has spirited him away to Russia
30/08/25 02:18
A state media pundit has declared that the boy is 'Russian' and demanded the Putin regime should 'do everything possible' to 'protect the mother's right' to be with the child.
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Appalling moment gunman disguised as delivery driver guns down top Ukrainian politician
30/08/25 10:37
Andriy Parubiy, a former parliamentary speaker, was shot dead on Saturday in the city's Sykhovsky district by a gunman disguised as a delivery driver.
NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin launches another night of terror on Ukraine with attacks by 537 drones and 45 missiles
30/08/25 08:11
The bombardment of 537 drones and 45 missiles unleashed by Russian forces caused yet more death and destruction as civilians and energy and rail facilities were targeted.
Putin disregards criticism for strikes on UK and EU buildings
29/08/25 09:27
In one of its deadliest onslaughts since the start of the war, Moscow launched 'egregious' attacks on Kyiv on Thursday, including the EU delegation and British Council buildings
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Putin ignores international outrage over strikes on UK and EU buildings and launches new deadly barrage on Ukraine - as Zelensky calls on West to show Kremlin 'strong joint signal'
29/08/25 08:47
In one of its deadliest onslaughts since the start of the war, Moscow launched 'egregious' attacks on Kyiv on Thursday, including the EU delegation and British Council buildings
Haunting last picture shows smiling female mountaineer alongside Italian climber friend - before she was 'left to die' with broken leg up 24,000ft peak and he perished trying to rescue her
28/08/25 03:39
The image shows the 47-year-old mother-of-one bravely smiling for the camera, her shattered leg stabilised with a spare tent pole. At the time, hopes were still high that she could be saved.
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Stand-off in the skies: Moment Russian fighter jet buzzes US anti-submarine spy plane over the Black Sea in tense aerial clash
28/08/25 10:29
Russian sources have said the flight by the Su-35S multirole fighter and P-8A Poseidon aircraft shows the US remains active in intelligence gathering to support Ukraine 's war effort off of Crimea.
Russian climber stranded 24,000ft up mountain for two weeks is presumed dead after thermal-imaging survey, officials reveal a day after her son begged for a renewed rescue effort
27/08/25 02:36
Natalia Nagovitsyna was climbing the Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan, but broke her leg and became stuck.
Moment 'drunk idiot' risks his life running into the sea and diving straight into a raging TORNADO
26/08/25 03:56
Maxim Pavlov had been drinking on the beach when he waded into the Gulf of Finland , ignoring the protests of his friends.
Russia strikes key Ukrainian road link, official says
26/08/25 02:59
The motorway has become a death alley, according to a senior official. A hostile drone strike by Vladimir Putin's forces attacked a prosecutor's vehicle, wounding two people.
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The Ukrainian highway from hell: Ruthless Russian drone pilots stage 'chicken hunt' targeting civilian drivers on 'death alley' motorway
26/08/25 02:23
The motorway has become a death alley, according to a senior official. A hostile drone strike by Vladimir Putin's forces attacked a prosecutor's vehicle, wounding two people.
Devastated son of climber 'left to die' with broken leg up 24,000ft mountain says his mother is 'still alive' after 14 days and pleads for new rescue bid
26/08/25 09:51
On Monday, the authorities in Kyrgyzstan abandoned attempts to extricate Natalia, also known as Natasha Nagovitsina, 47, from Victory Peak due to bad weather.
Packed Boeing jet from Heathrow makes emergency landing in RUSSIA after 'engine failure' with hundreds of passengers now 'barred from leaving plane'
26/08/25 06:44
The Boeing 777-39L(ER) suffered 'engine failure' and requested landing at Nizhnevartovsk in Siberia.
Ukraine's Bucha Butchers revenge bombing: Military intelligence in Ukraine 'kills three Putin soldiers' involved in 'torture, mutilation and rape atrocities' in 2022
24/08/25 09:41
Bucha - a quiet commuter town just outside of Kyiv - became a byword for Russian barbarism in 2022, when retreating Kremlin troops left behind mass graves and streets littered with bodies.
Fears that Russian climber is dead despite attempted rescue mission after she was stranded 22,000ft up mountain with broken leg for TEN days
23/08/25 03:53
Rescuers now believe Russian mountaineer Natalia, also known as Natasha, Nagovitsina, 47, who has been trapped for ten days at 22,965ft on Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan, has died.
Top Putin propagandist becomes latest mysterious high-profile death in Russia as dies at the age of 58
23/08/25 10:07
Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the Russia Today state media empire and earlier a Putin collaborator in Ukraine, died in Moscow today at the age of 58.
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Chemical castration laws are toughened in Kazakhstan with men guilty of 'lesser' child sex offences facing injections before release
22/08/25 03:28
Paedophiles in the central Asian nation who have committed rape and violent sexual assault causing severe injury already face 'life-means-life' jail sentences and chemical castration.
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British military to be deployed to help defend Ukraine
20/08/25 08:02
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, is taking part in NATO talks as military leaders from across the alliance gather to discuss what support can be offered to Kyiv.
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Britain 'will send troops to defend Ukraine's skies and ports under security deal' - as Putin launches new attacks and NATO chiefs prepare to meet in Washington
20/08/25 07:13
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, is taking part in NATO talks as military leaders from across the alliance gather to discuss what support can be offered to Kyiv.
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Putin 'befriended 17-year-old beauty queen who visited him once a fortnight after he saw her in an erotic calendar when he was Russian PM', new book claims
19/08/25 04:17
Russian critics of Putin claim that he paid for models to pose in an erotic calendar ahead of the 2012 presidential election, which saw him return to the top role.
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NATO forced to scramble warplanes overnight as Russia pounds Ukraine
19/08/25 10:17
The horrific attacks came even as Donald Trump claimed the Russian tyrant had agreed to peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, with hopes that a meeting would take place by the end of August.
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Putin's brutal response to peace talks: NATO jets scrambled as Russia pounds Ukraine with hundreds of drones in overnight attack - hours after Zelensky's White House summit with Trump
19/08/25 07:47
The horrific attacks came even as Donald Trump claimed the Russian tyrant had agreed to peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, with hopes that a meeting would take place by the end of August.
Russian troops fly US flag on captured American armored vehicle
18/08/25 12:47
They were filmed flying the US flag alongside the Russian tricolor in a captured American M113 armored personnel carrier captured from Volodymyr Zelensky's forces.
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Russian troops taunt Zelensky by flying US flag on captured American armoured vehicle during frontline assault ahead of Ukrainian leader's crunch talks with Trump today
18/08/25 10:54
They were filmed flying the US flag alongside the Russian tricolour in a captured American M113 armoured personnel carrier captured from Volodymyr Zelensky's forces.
Putin's legs 'twitch suspiciously' during Trump meeting
16/08/25 07:13
Kremlin footage captured the Russian leader's knee jolting repeatedly as he stood alongside his US counterpart at the end of their brief exchange following a joint press conference.
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Moment Putin's legs 'twitch suspiciously' in Trump farewell as Russian dictator dons platforms to overcome 'Napoleon complex' - amid rumours he wore EXOSKELETON
16/08/25 08:19
Kremlin footage captured the Russian leader's knee jolting repeatedly as he stood alongside his US counterpart at the end of their brief exchange following a joint press conference.
Zelensky to meet Trump after Putin peace talks end with no deal: Ukraine president will fly to Washington to discuss next steps to end Russia's invasion
16/08/25 07:40
Zelensky said he had been invited to the White House after a 'long and substantive' conversation with Trump which lasted for more than 90 minutes and later involved European leaders.
Putin heads to Alaska in heavily armoured limo
15/08/25 10:16
Footage shows a long line of black armoured vehicles speeding along a road, flanked by flashing police cars and trailed by what appears to be an ambulance.
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Putin comes to America: Russian leader heads to Pacific Coast in heavily armoured limo before jetting to Alaska for historic meeting with Trump
15/08/25 07:07
Footage shows a long line of black armoured vehicles speeding along a road, flanked by flashing police cars and trailed by what appears to be an ambulance.
First photos 'of Putin's youngest son, six-year-old Vladimir Junior' are revealed - as it's claimed his private tutors earn $36,000 a month
14/08/25 05:14
A Russian anti-corruption campaigner and long-time ally of Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny has shared what she claims are photos of Vladimir Putin's youngest son as part of a long-standing investigation.
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Russia and Belarus set to practice joint nuclear drills
13/08/25 02:49
Russia and its ally Belraus are set to stage nuclear missile drills next month close in Europe next month.
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Russia and Belarus to practice joint nuclear drills during tests with 'up to 150,000 troops' in Europe next month
13/08/25 01:51
Russia and its ally Belraus are set to stage nuclear missile drills next month close in Europe next month.
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Terror in Moscow as NUCLEAR BOMB alerts are played on public transport, sending passengers fleeing for their lives after hackers target warning system
12/08/25 03:08
Bus passengers in Moscow were ordered to rush to bomb shelters after nuclear bomb alerts were played out on the city's public transport after hackers targeted Russia's warning systems.
Vladimir Putin's brute father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork 'in a fit of rage', new book claims
10/08/25 03:30
Vladimir Putin's father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.
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Horrific moment chairlift collapses in a Russian resort, with four people plunging into a lake, and six hitting the ground - as others are trapped dangling mid-air
09/08/25 10:06
The ride from hell left a dozen people injured in Nalchik, in the mountainous region of Kabardino-Balkaria in southern Russia on Friday.
Zelensky warns on 'decisions without Ukraine' after Trump and Putin announce 'peace summit' in Alaska next week - as Russia keeps on killing
09/08/25 08:04
Zelensky ruled out ceding any territory to Russia as Putin continued his offensive last night, killing four civilians and wounding 10.

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