Russia recently claimed that a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter hit a barge full of Ukrainian special operations forces. Russian defence ministry said that Ukrainian forces were attempting to cross the Dnipro River to assault the Zaporizhzhia power plant...

"We have seen even the state propaganda admitting that things are not going right." Russian media is saying that ‘the Ukrainian army is really strong’ and ‘we have not done our work well’, Russian expert Katia Glod (@eglod_katia) tells #TimesRadio.

Putin and his propaganda have picked up on the ideas of Russian panslavism, neopaganism, the Moscow Orthodox Church- but also Soviet communism and the Russian extreme far right, which by the way is considered to be kind of mainstream in Russia nowadays.

The Kremlin is trying to lure users in Russia away from YouTube, one of the most popular Western social media networks in the country, to a homegrown alternative called Rutube. WSJ examines the platform and why many Russians are reluctant to use it. Photo...