Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country’s forces are preventing the creation of an anti-Moscow enclave on the Ukrainian territory. Putin said Thursday efforts had been underway to turn the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas into one such enclave that poses a threat to Russia, according to Russia’s Interfax news ...
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has raised the alarm about the repercussions of Ukraine’s “systematic shelling” of the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. He says the attacks are likely to create a large-scale catastrophe. In a phone call with his counterpart Emmanuel Macron of France on Friday, Putin “stressed that ...