Though Vladimir Putin has led Russia to a number of grisly military triumphs, they may have misled him when planning the invasion of Ukraine

But writing for The Telegraph, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin warned Nato allies against submitting to Moscow’s demands, and said: “Putin doesn’t want a war with Nato because he would lose. So we should not be cowed by his rhetoric or his campaign of sabotage, outrageous as it may be.”

Vladimir Putin has been preparing to test a new nuclear-armed cruise missile ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska.

In a few short hours in Alaska, Vladimir Putin managed to convince Donald Trump that a Ukraine ceasefire was not the way to go, stave off U.S. sanctions, and spectacularly shatter years of Western attempts to isolate the Russian president.

The frustration on President Trump's face after talks with Putin was something his presidential predecessors would have recognized.

Russia has responded strongly to Western Media’s attempts at heckling President Putin during the meeting with President Trump. Russian Foreign Ministry points out that the same Western Nations who once termed Putin a ‘Criminal’ have now rolled-out the Red Carpet for him.

How do you think the meeting in Alaska between Putin and Trump will go?” a commander of a mortar unit from Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade wrote to me a few days before Friday’s summit.

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A key ally of Vladimir Putin appeared to troll the West as he arrived in America wearing a Soviet Union sweatshirt. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister wore a top bearing the logo “CCCP” as he emerged from his car in Alaska ahead of tonight’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.