Growing anger and dissent against Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation has now escalated into calls for revolt within the Russian military. What Putin expected to be a rapid invasion has turned into a protracted war, causing more problems for the Russian preside...

"NATO has to be faster" in putting forward a clear response to Putin's illegal annexation of regions in Eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Diplomat Solomiia Bobrovska tells

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (September 30) presided over a ceremony to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by his forces, escalating his seven-month war and taking it into an unpredictable new phase."This is the will of millions of...

"I cannot sympathise. I could have if these Russians who are now fleeing would have come out on the streets and said no to war. But they chose to stay quiet." Russians who are now fleeing conscription ‘should have fought better’ against the invasion of Uk...

What’s gone on in Ukraine, as far as most Russians are concerned, has been somebody else’s problem. But now mass mobilisation is everybody’s problem." Putin’s mobilisation is ‘backfiring’ on him and will see ‘more Russians getting killed’, Lord Richard Da...

Ukrainian military claims it shot down 4 Russian missiles in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. Ukraine’s Air Command East said that Russian Su-35 fighter jets fired 5 Kh-59 air-to-surface missiles on September 28. A pro-Russian military blogger cla...

"Now I think his worst fears are coming true...this is not going to work out well for him on the front lines".Conscript "cannon fodder" is not going to save Putin's army from defeat in Ukraine, Natia Seskuria and General Philip Breedlove tell #TimesRadio.

"The front line is now a thousand kilometres long, they don't have enough men to manage it." Russia will use conscripts to plug gaps in Ukraine but they're unlikely to be well trained, Defence Journalist Tim Ripley tells #TimesRadio.

As Ukrainian liberates one town after another from Russian occupation, a crisis seems to be swelling within Moscow’s military. A CNN report claims Russian President Putin is giving directions directly to generals on the battlefield in Ukraine. This comes...