# vladimir-putin - Wednesday 3 August, 2022
# Sabina Higgins
# Sabina Higgins
Taoiseach says the Irish Government position is that Russia should withdraw, but says ‘peace is something we all want’.
# vladimir-putin - Saturday 30 July, 2022
# Controversy
From The42
# Controversy
On Thursday, Uefa announced it was opening an investigation into the supporters’ conduct.
# vladimir-putin - Tuesday 26 July, 2022
# ISS
# ISS
Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the station, which has been in orbit since 1998.
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 30 June, 2022
# Russian Invasion
# Russian Invasion
The UK Prime Minister said that Vladimir Putin would not have started the war in Ukraine if he was a woman.
# Russia
From The42
# Russia
The 91-year-old made the comments during an interview on ITV’s Good Morning Great Britain.
# vladimir-putin - Saturday 28 May, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The talks lasted for 80 minutes.
# vladimir-putin - Tuesday 24 May, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The new sentence will replace the one he was handed in February 2021, meaning he will remain behind bars for another eight years.
# vladimir-putin - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The opposition leader had his two-and-a-half year sentence extended after he was found guilty of fraud and contempt of court in March.
# vladimir-putin - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Stockholm
# Stockholm
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson called it “a historic change in our country’s security policy” as she addressed legislators.
# vladimir-putin - Sunday 15 May, 2022
# NATO
# NATO
NATO Jens Stoltenberg has said Ukraine can win the war against Russia.
# vladimir-putin - Saturday 14 May, 2022
# Kharkiv
"The breaking point will be in the second part of August," Major General Kyrylo Budanov said The intelligence chief also made unverified claims that a coup is under way in Moscow to depose Putin Putin told his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto that Finland scrapping its military neutrality would be a "mistake"
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# NATO
Kyiv is preparing for its first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier. Gazprom announced it would stop supplying gas via the Polish part of the Yamal-Europe pipeline. Finland's president and prime minister have said they are in favour of applying for Nato membership.
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 5 May, 2022
# Sergei Lavrov
# Sergei Lavrov
Russia’s foreign minister made comments about the Holocaust that were deeply offensive to Jews.
# vladimir-putin - Friday 29 April, 2022
# Zaporizhzhia
Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were "captured" by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near Zaporizhzhia. One person has been killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv during UN Secretary General's visit to the capital. Zelenskyy said the strikes were an attempt by Russia to "humiliate" the UN and everything it represents.
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 28 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Antonio Guterres urged Russia to cooperate with the International Criminal Court investigations into possible war crimes.
# vladimir-putin - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Donbas
# Donbas
Russia’s defence ministry said that “high-precision air-based missiles” had hit 13 Ukrainian positions in parts of Donbas.
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 7 April, 2022
# New Sanctions
# New Sanctions
The deal was given the final political go-ahead in a meeting of EU ambassadors and will be enacted once published in the EU’s official journal.
# vladimir-putin - Monday 4 April, 2022
# Oligarchs
# Oligarchs
The Tango is a 254-foot vessel carrying a Cook Islands flag, a Civil Guard source said.
# vladimir-putin - Friday 1 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Russian leader has demanded payments for gas in rubles.
# vladimir-putin - Wednesday 30 March, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
Reports concluded Putin was unaware the military had been using and losing conscripts in Ukraine.
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Russia’s deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin said the country would “radically, by several times reduce the military activity” around Kyiv and Chernigiv.
# vladimir-putin - Sunday 27 March, 2022
# Vladimir Putin
# Vladimir Putin
The US President’s apparently unscripted call caused the White House to scramble to row back on the remark.
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 24 March, 2022
# Under Pressure
From The42
# Under Pressure
He was reluctant to be drawn on the subject.
# vladimir-putin - Sunday 20 March, 2022
# Invasion
# Invasion
“Russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us,” said Zelenskyy.
# vladimir-putin - Saturday 12 March, 2022
# France
# France
The French president criticised Boris Johnson’s Government over a policy which requires visa applications to be made in person in Brussels or Paris.
# vladimir-putin - Sunday 6 March, 2022
# Protest
From The42
# Protest
President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin declared in Beijing last month that their friendship had ‘no limits’.
# vladimir-putin - Wednesday 2 March, 2022
# Limerick
# Limerick
The paint was poured on a sign at Aughinish Alumina, located on the Shannon Estuary at Foynes, Co Limerick.
# Cutting Ties
From The42
# Cutting Ties
The 77-year-old was German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005.
# vladimir-putin - Saturday 26 February, 2022
# Solidarity
From The42
# Solidarity
Ukrainian flags were also waved among the crowd at Old Trafford as a show of support for the beleaguered nation.
# Sanctions
# Sanctions
The US President conceded there was a lack of Western unity for enacting an even tougher measure.
# vladimir-putin - Friday 25 February, 2022
# Vladimir Putin
# Vladimir Putin
The Russian president released another extraordinary video statement today.
Live
Feb 25th 2022, 12:00 PM
Explosions in Kyiv before dawn as Western leaders scheduled emergency meeting. At least 137 Ukrainians killed during first 24 hours of Russian attack. A spokesperson for Putin has said the Krelim is ready to send a delegation for talks with Ukraine.
# vladimir-putin - Monday 21 February, 2022
# Explainer
# Explainer
Vladimir Putin this evening recognised the independence of the two regions.
# vladimir-putin - Sunday 20 February, 2022
# Moscow
Emmanuel Macron talked with Vladimir Putin today, before calling Volodymyr Zelensky Minister Simon Coveney said that the prospect of war in Ukraine is now the expectation Joint Russian and Belarusian military drills are continuing today amid increased tension with Ukraine
# vladimir-putin - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# False Flag
# False Flag
Boris Johnson said he feared more violence following the shelling of a nursery school in clashes between Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists.
# vladimir-putin - Tuesday 15 February, 2022
# Ukraine Crisis
Talks between new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place this afternoon. Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, says that if a 'real withdrawal' follows the Russian statements, it will be the beginning of a real de-escalation. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said that there should be 'cautious optimism', but there are no signs of de-escalation on the ground.
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
President Vladimir Putin ’s long-time foe is charged with fraud and contempt of court.
# vladimir-putin - Monday 14 February, 2022
# Ukraine Crisis
The US has warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine at any moment. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is visiting Kyiv for crisis talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Scholz plans to continue on to Russia to hold talks with Putin.
# vladimir-putin - Friday 4 February, 2022
# Leaders Meeting
# Leaders Meeting
Both countries also agreed on their stance that Taiwan is part of China.
# Beijing
# Beijing
The two leaders met in the Chinese capital today.
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