Putin’s Russia will not he defeated from without – revolutionary change must come from within

Sun 7 Jun 2026

Across the globe, internet blackouts are a new tool for autocratic regimes

Sun 7 Jun 2026

Ukraine’s robotic army starts to turn the tide against Russia’s bloody advance

Sun 7 Jun 2026

The Observer view: Trump’s war in Iran has made him Putin’s useful idiot

Sun 31 May 2026

Ukraine has taught us that drones are the new machine guns

Fri 22 May 2026

Target Putin: Ukraine could be grinding out a win

Tue 12 May 2026

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco: The conservative intellectual at the heart of Venice’s Biennale storm

Sun 10 May 2026

Russian attendance splits art world at Venice Biennale

Sun 10 May 2026

Vladimir Putin is the main beneficiary of the Iran war

Mon 16 Mar 2026

‘Politics camouflaged as art’: Russia returns to the Venice Biennale

Sun 15 Mar 2026

Zelensky offers to help Gulf states shoot down Iranian drones

Thu 5 Mar 2026

Prisoner or pariah: A bleak welcome awaits the young Briton who left home to fight Putin’s war

Tue 3 Mar 2026

Rogue Brits: Fighting for Putin

Russia and Belarus are making an Olympic comeback. So much for the games’ core values

Fri 27 Feb 2026

Russia’s war with Ukraine: four years on

Zelenskyy accuses Putin of starting World War 3

Four years and no end in sight in for Ukraine’s existential struggle

Sun 22 Feb 2026

A warning from the future: where Putin will set his sights after Ukraine

Sun 22 Feb 2026

Russia is accused of poisoning Alexei Navalny

Deadly frog toxin killed Putin opponent Alexei Navalny in prison

Sat 14 Feb 2026

The Soviet Union’s long goodbye

Wed 11 Feb 2026

‘I try to sleep as much as possible, then you don’t notice the cold’

Mon 9 Feb 2026

Russia’s shadow war at sea

Britain slow to act against Kremlin’s ‘shadow fleet’ of sanction-busting tankers

Tue 3 Feb 2026

‘His missiles hit not only our people, but also the negotiation table’

Sat 24 Jan 2026

Russia’s ghost fleet gliding through Channel despite UK’s pledge to act

Wed 14 Jan 2026

The seized oil tankers

How the US seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker

Russian people are numb to the deaths of their fathers and sons in Ukraine

Fri 2 Jan 2026

UK energy company linked to sanctioned oligarch sues Ukraine

Tue 30 Dec 2025

‘Ukraine is not losing the war, but it cannot fight forever’

Tue 30 Dec 2025

Zelensky stays hopeful on plan for peace ahead of Trump talks

Sun 28 Dec 2025

Defiance and denial in besieged Sloviansk as residents resist surrender to Moscow

Sun 28 Dec 2025

Putin has failed, says Finland’s leader, but shift in US strategy is a threat to peace

Mon 22 Dec 2025

Time to sound the alarm: the United States no longer behaves like a friend

Sun 14 Dec 2025

Europe is beefing up its armies with military service schemes. Britain is unlikely to follow suit

Wed 10 Dec 2025

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Putin is laughing at Europe

Sun 7 Dec 2025

Trump crowns himself world king… but kindly lets Russia and China rule their fiefdoms

Sun 7 Dec 2025

Starmer to host Zelensky and EU leaders for Ukraine talks

Sun 7 Dec 2025

British fighting power is ‘a mirage’, say former defence secretaries

Thu 4 Dec 2025

Ousted president seeking to tear up Bosnia’s delicate peace

Mon 1 Dec 2025

Pro-Kremlin posts attacked BBC after Panorama scandal

Sun 30 Nov 2025

France falls in line to ask its young to face Russian threat

Sun 30 Nov 2025

Loss of chief negotiator could see Zelensky play hardball over peace deal

Sun 30 Nov 2025

Europe split over Putin’s frozen assets in race to hand Ukraine financial lifeline

Sat 29 Nov 2025

A peace deal could be imminent. It may not be a good one

Wed 26 Nov 2025

The US-Russian peace plan for Ukraine

Europeans rush to foil deal favouring Kremlin

Sun 23 Nov 2025

More MEPs investigated over Russian bribes

Sun 23 Nov 2025

Steve Witkoff’s peace plan is to hand Putin victory

Sun 23 Nov 2025

Russian spy ship near the UK

Anger as millions spent on Russian plane

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Trump lets Orbán avoid sanctions on Russian oil

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Abramovich complains about his money, but he is winning, even as a pariah

Sat 8 Nov 2025

In the dangerous game of nuclear poker, the US and Russia have the most to lose

Thu 6 Nov 2025

Pussy Riot’s guide to Putin’s Russia

Tue 4 Nov 2025

Georgia on my mind

Sun 2 Nov 2025

Russian ‘post-doomsday’ nuclear-powered missile escalates standoff with US

Sat 1 Nov 2025

Use Russia's money to defend Ukraine

Mon 27 Oct 2025

Climate change clears northern route for first container ship

Sun 26 Oct 2025

Russian ‘blood money’ may be seized to pay for Ukraine’s defence

Thu 23 Oct 2025

Former Nato chief warns Russia is at war with UK

Tue 14 Oct 2025

Europe vs. Russian drones

Four nations threatened – Nato scrambles over Russian provocation

Sun 28 Sept 2025

How serious is the Russian threat to Europe?

Sun 28 Sept 2025

Art, raves and four-minute warnings: 24 hours in Kyiv

Fri 26 Sept 2025

The Russians are coming – will someone tell Trump?

Thu 18 Sept 2025

Reform conference sponsors may have breached company law

Thu 11 Sept 2025

Putin’s fear of death is his weak spot

Sun 7 Sept 2025

The Ukrainian unit with one task: shoot all Russian drones down

Sat 6 Sept 2025

The diva and the dictator: opera at war

Anna Netrebko’s Putin problem looms over Royal Opera return

Thu 28 Aug 2025

We want peace – but not on Putin’s terms, Ukrainians say

Sat 23 Aug 2025

Europe has three options for involvement with Ukraine

Sat 23 Aug 2025

Trump: empty-handed because there is still no deal to do

Sun 17 Aug 2025

Red carpet or not, Zelensky faces uphill struggle with Trump

Sat 16 Aug 2025

Trump and Putin meet to end Ukraine war – without Ukraine

Fri 15 Aug 2025

Europe left in the cold as Trump plans to offer Putin deal

Sun 10 Aug 2025

There can be no end to the war without Ukraine

Sun 10 Aug 2025

The world is none the wiser as Trump’s sanction deadline looms

Thu 7 Aug 2025

Controversy over how to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

Sun 3 Aug 2025

Pregnant, panicking… then the bomb struck

Sat 2 Aug 2025

It’s refined in India, but Russian crude is still gushing into the UK

Sat 2 Aug 2025

The journalists enlisted in Putin’s information war

Sat 2 Aug 2025

The honeymoon is over for Poland’s Ukrainian refugees

Sun 20 Jul 2025

Roman Starovoit, politician who fell out of favour with Putin

Fri 11 Jul 2025

Trump’s feel-bad foreign policy is guided by emotion, not logic

Sat 28 Jun 2025

Inside the drone attack that left Russia’s top brass humiliated

Wed 11 Jun 2025

Russian drone pilots are hunting Ukrainian civilians

Thu 5 Jun 2025

Trump calls Putin ‘crazy’ for mass drone attack

Tue 27 May 2025

Ukraine looks to Europe for a way of defeating Putin without Trump

Sun 25 May 2025

In pictures: Putin’s power on parade

Thu 15 May 2025

I fled Moscow with my laptop, three lipsticks and a can of hairspray

Sat 10 May 2025

Russian sabotage squads ramp up attacks to spook the west

Sun 4 May 2025

North Korea’s war in Europe

Is Trump losing patience with Putin?