British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza who was freed from a Siberian penal camp in a historic prisoner swap last month believes that the fall of Vladimir Putin is "inevitable"

Exclusive: Key British-Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Tom Watling that even if he and other oppostition leaders are killed, many more will come in their place to challenge Putin

The Russian president earlier this year rebuffed Defense Ministry officials who had tried to convince him they needed more soldiers.

Russian Defense Ministry officials are pressuring President Vladimir Putin to launch a new wave of mobilization, with increasing talk in Moscow about the inevitability of such a move, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Armenia's prime minister said the CSTO, seen as Putin's NATO, "creates threats" for his country's future existence, after it pulled away from it.

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Western governments on Thursday that a nuclear war would ensue if they gave the green light for Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia.

On Wednesday, the Kremlin condemned comments by outgoing NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg as “dangerous”, Reuters reports. Stoltenberg had suggested that allowing Ukraine to use Western long-range missiles to strike Russian territory would not trigger an escalation from Moscow.