In May, Russia's state-controlled polling agency VTsIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center) changed its methodology after Putin’s approval rating dropped to 65.5 percent, a slump of 12.2 percentage points since December and the lowest level since the start of the war.

Finland built 124 miles of border fencing after Russia allegedly weaponized migration as hybrid warfare against the Nordic NATO member state.

The frictions in Russia’s wartime economy are growing, as massive military spending balloons the budget deficit. Consumers and businesses are gloomier.

Russians are braced for what may follow for the military and economy after a parliamentary election that the Kremlin sees as a means of legitimizing its policies.

The former UK PM said: "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".

WARSAW, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, citing unnamed intelligence agencies, that Russia plans to launch 'hybrid' drone and missile attacks against countries supporting Ukraine.

Russia and China vetoed a United Nations resolution Thursday that would have authorized U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions that were reimposed against Iran last year over its nuclear program. The U.