The Defence Secretary has said he would kidnap Vladimir Putin to hold him accountable for his war crimes. John Healey made the remark on a one-day visit to Kyiv on Friday just hours after Russia launched a barrage of missile attacks against Ukraine.

Ever since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump has hinted at a similar action in multiple other countries, including Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia. But can the POTUS order a military operation to capture Russian President Vladimir Putin as well?

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signs up top spy an arch strategist Budanov as his political enforcer - putting the man Putin fears most of all at the very top of the Kyiv government

Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Vladimir Putin and sees him as a bigger obstacle to peace in Ukraine than Volodymyr Zelensky, according to sources.

The US raid on Venezuela has exposed the limits of ties between Moscow and Caracas – while pointing the way for potential strategic opportunities for Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Washington’s new era of gunboat diplomacy.

Trump has pushed Russia out of Latin America and seized tankers while conceding nothing in Europe.

After a weekslong chase across the Atlantic, the U.S. took over the Bella 1 in an operation that defied Russian warnings.

President Trump refuted the Kremlin’s accusations that Ukraine targeted a residence of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, doubting such an attack ever took place.

President Trump's actions in Venezuela also are causing unease in Western nations and giving the Kremlin fresh talking points to defend its war in Ukraine.

Simon Migliano, who compiled the Top10VPN shutdown report, told me “Iran’s current nationwide blackout is a blunt instrument intended to crush dissent, starkly different from the sophisticated, slow-burn digital censorship we’re seeing in Russia.”