Backstabber Watch

During an MSNBC "Morning Joe" segment on how closely the future of Ukraine is tied to the election of either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in November, co-host Joe Scarborough accused the former president of being in the pocket of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday angrily lashed out at the United States Department of Justice for indicting two Russian operatives for allegedly running an illegal foreign influence campaign.

Donald Trump's former campaign adviser stands accused of working with the Russians and laundering cash they paid him, prosecutors announced Thursday.

A conservative pundit Thursday laid into the "useful idiots" who prosecutors contend unwittingly accepted millions of dollars from Russian operatives to spread secret propaganda for a hostile foreign power.Jim Geraghty, senior political correspondent for the conservative magazine National Review

Putin has destroyed his army, lost Ukraine, strengthened NATO, diminished Russia’s security, transformed Russia into an abject vassal of China and turned back the clock on Russia’s economic and political modernization.

Cases of desertion from Moscow's military increased tenfold this year, according to a Russian anti-war group.

The prolonged high interest rates could further strain the economy while the president is beset with both domestic and international pressures.

In a speech, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko discussed the nuclear arsenal Russia recently deployed to Belarus.

The trembling tyrant, 71, has axed most of the May 9 celebrations - the most sacred day in the Russian calendar - because he couldn't guarantee the safety of his citizens.

"The NATO bloc will cease to exist in the format in which it exists today," Russian commander Apti Alaudinov said.

If GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump defeats incumbent President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, his return to the White House could bring about a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy.

There’s a clip going around featuring Malcolm Trumbull, the former prime minister of Australia, describing for a home audience the few times he witnessed Donald Trump interacting with Vladimir Putin. 

President Vladimir Putin warned Western countries on Thursday that there was a genuine risk of nuclear war if they sent their own troops to fight in Ukraine, and he said Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West.

Donald Trump could rightly be seen as a Russian asset, according to a former FBI director the ex-president fired in his first term.

Russian state media this week asked for a welcoming hand to be extended to a group of right-wing media influencers who were caught up as unwitting dupes in an alleged illegal Russian influence scheme this week.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out the right-wing influencers who spent years downplaying Donald Trump's ties to Russia and then took cash from what turned out to be a Kremlin front operation.

Russia only had one tank on display during its Victory Day parade this year. Every year, Moscow wraps itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, a celebration of its victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Today marks the 79th anniversary and Mr Putin addressed the parade in the Red Square, talking up his country's military capabilities in a speech aimed as much at a foreign audience as a domestic one.

Vladimir Putin can end the war in Ukraine in five minutes with one phone call to russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main KGB security agency and accessed personnel files of over 8,600 employees...

American-born businessman Bill Browder, author of the Magnitsky Act that has been sanctioning Russian officials in 2016, has also authored two best-selling books: Red Notice and Freezing Order.

Ukraine's army holds a clear advantage over the Kremlin's forces in one vital area, despite being outgunned 10 to one.

"Putin is destroying everything that matters to us," said John Sipher, a former CIA officer.

Researchers have uncovered a new network of fake news websites that have popped up ahead of the 2024 presidential election that they have traced to Russia.

Journalist Anne Applebaum, who writes about American foreign policy for The Atlantic, brings word that American allies around the world are astonished that former President Donald Trump is using his influence within the Republican Party to block security assistance to Ukraine.