Speaking on the 25th anniversary of his rule, President Vladimir V. Putin delivered an upbeat and vague New Year’s Eve message that did not address casualties in Ukraine or rising inflation at home.

President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025, though he offered no specific promises on the economy or the war in Ukraine. At a time when many ordinary people are worried about rising prices and the central bank's 21% interest rate is squeezing businesses and homebuyers,

Twenty five years ago today, a somewhat undemonstrative technocrat became the acting president of Russia. In a surprise announcement, Boris Yeltsin handed over to Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer whom he had chosen a few months earlier to be his prime minister.

Ukraine has achieved a historic first by successfully using a sea drone to destroy a Russian helicopter off the coast of occupied Crimea. The strike, which took place near Cape Tarkhankut, saw a Magura V5 naval drone equipped with missiles take down one Mi-8 helicopter and damage another.

Ukraine delivered a big blow to Putin's army as a naval drone destroys a Russian Mi-8 helicopter for the first time in a Black Sea clash. The Magura V5 drone, equipped with missiles, struck the helicopter near Crimea’s Cape Tarkhankut coast,