The stunning news — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.
Western leaders and others who resisted Putin's rule praised Navalny's bravery after reports of his death emerged. Navalny was behind bars since 2021 after a fatal nerve poisoning, and has been convicted three times of various offences that amounted to an over 30-year-sentence.
The Kremlin said it had no information on the cause of Navalny's death and Putin has been informed of the matter. Navalny rose to prominence after he publicly criticised the Kremlin and alleged corruption within Putin's administration, describing the President's party as one of "crooks and thieves".
The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets region said Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday, after which he "almost immediately felt unconsciousness". A medical team was sent to resuscitate the opposition leader, but to no avail.
Ukraine's attack comes hours after Russia fired two dozen missiles towards the former country, killing five people. Ukraine has also struck targets in Russian territory deep behind the front line as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues efforts to get Western assistance.
A congressional aide said he understood that the threat relates to a space-deployed Russian anti-satellite weapon. Such a weapon could pose a major danger to US satellites that transmit billions of bytes of data each hour.
Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck & Co are developing an experimental cancer vaccine that a mid-stage study showed to cut the chance of recurrence or death from melanoma - the most deadly skin cancer - by half after three years of treatment.
Putin declared that he would work with any US leader who is elected, but noted unequivocally that he would prefer Biden's victory when asked who would be a better choice from the point of view of Russia.
According to three Russian sources, Putin sent signals to the US in 2023 through intermediaries for a possible cessation of the Ukraine conflict. However, these negotiations failed after the US refused to indulge in discussions without Ukraine and Moscow refused to cede occupied territory.
According to Musk, the Russian boss would be assassinated if Putin took his steps back. "If he were to back off, he (Putin) would be assassinated," Musk said during 'X Space'-- a way to have live audio conversations on Twitter.
The Russian President blamed Ukraine for rejecting peace negotiations and hinted at a possible prisoner exchange with imprisoned US journalist Evan Gershkovich. Putin also asserted that the West will never succeed in inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia in Ukraine.
A fierce critic of Putin's war policies, Boris Nadezhdin said the Russian president had made a “fatal mistake by starting the special military operation” in Ukraine. His campaign garnered attention, but was expected to falter as another anti-war candidate was disqualified from the elections earlier.
This would be Putin's first formal interview with a Western media figure since the start of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, as Russia has dramatically reduced the capability of US journalists to cover Russia. This also comes as the US struggles to financially assist Ukraine.
Nadezhdin last week presented the electoral commission with signatures from more than 1,00,000 supporters but the commission said its initial analysis of the signatures showed some of those listed as Nadezhdin supporters were dead people.
However, Ukrainian forces said it has come under intense Russian attack over the past 24 hours, with continuous assaults along the front line, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement Sunday.
Russian election officials will check the authenticity of the signatures submitted by Nadezhdin and other would-be candidates, several of whom have withdrawn from the race in recent days.
Attacks led by the Ukraine army are dealing a heavy blow to President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reassure Russians that life in the country is largely untouched by the nearly 2-year-old war.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that an IL-76 cargo aircraft carrying 65 captured Ukrainian service members as well as six crew members and three people accompanying the POWs went down during a pre-planned flight at around 11 am local time.
The North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Putin reaffirmed his willingness to visit Pyongyang and said that he could come at an “early date.”
Putin dismissed "so-called peace formulas" being discussed among Western countries and Ukraine and the "prohibitive demands" these negotiations entailed. This came as the United States and the European Union are unable to fund Kyiv due to their own internal complications.
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