Financially speaking, the U.S. sanctions will obviously have an effect. Indeed, even before these sanctions were rolled out yesterday, Russia’s economy has slowed considerably this year, after growing an estimated 4.3 percent in 2024 — faster than many other Western economies.

President Donald Trump schedules call with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Ukraine seeks long-range Tomahawk missiles following recent Russian strikes on energy sites.

The US has imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.

VLADIMIR Putin has made his biggest mistake of the war so far after “patronising” Donald Trump over the phone, say US political experts. Trump slapped punishing sanctions on Russia on

DIVISIONS of troops, battalions of tanks, squadrons of aircraft, and fleets of warships – war is a numbers game. With tyrannical Putin’s war raging in Ukraine, here The Sun breaks down

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged to its lowest recorded level. In 2005, Putin said the demographic woes needed to be resolved by maintaining "social and economic stability.”

Putin said that "no self-respecting country does anything under pressure," calling new U.S. sanctions an "unfriendly act."