Boris Johnson said the Russian leader had bragged it would ‘take only a minute’ to kill him with a missile after he warned him to abandon his plans to attack Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of murderers, rapists, robbers, and drug traffickers have been released to fight in the Wagner PMC and to take up arms against Ukraine

Vladimir Putin could use peace talks with Ukraine to buy time to rearm and cannot be trusted to enter negotiations in good faith, the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly (pictured) warned yesterday.

Elon Musk was said to have spoken to Putin privately in recent weeks in a bid to act as a peacemaker. Tesla boss Mr Musk told others that Putin was determined to win ‘no matter what’

Ukrainian officials have mocked Vladimir Putin with a video of Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’ after the bridge between Russia and Crimea was blown up this morning.

British and American spies believe there is ‘credible intelligence’ to suggest the Russian president is preparing an attack that will turn the war effort in his favour.

Russia’s president is reportedly unable to go to Gorbachev’s funeral because of his ‘work schedule’ according to his spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Hundreds of people this morning attended Darya Dugina’s funeral service in a large television studio in Moscow (pictured), where she worked as a prominent pro-Kremlin broadcaster

While the Russian leader looked awkward as he came down the steps of his presidential plane Ukrainian sources note he moved unusually quickly and was more alert than in prior public appearances.

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who had joined the Ukrainian Army, were captured by Moscow’s forces near Mariupol in April and later sentence to death in an unrecognised court.