The annual news conference sets the Kremlin’s tone for the next year and highlights President Vladimir V. Putin’s grip over Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to send a signal to the United States and European powers on Friday over his appetite for peace or more war in Ukraine when he speaks at a marathon end-of-year news conference.

Russia’s president disparaged European leaders on Wednesday, calling Ukraine’s allies “swine” who wanted “to feast on the collapse of Russia” as he blamed the West for Moscow’s war against Ukraine and threatened to continue waging his full-scale invasion.

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking as EU leaders gathered in Brussels, Yuriy Boyechko described Putin's rhetoric as "not merely posturing" but a precursor to escalation

Russia's Vladimir Solovyov added to fears that a larger war will break out in Europe when he listed multiple countries Russia should "destroy."

EUROPE’S leaders are poised to deliver a historic blow to Russia – if they can agree a way to use €200 billion of Kremlin loot to bolster Ukraine’s war chest. The leaders, who Vladimir

A mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address. The latest rant from the Kremlin ally comes as Brits have been warned to prepare for conflict

Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat has attacked Europe once again as Ukraine’s allies make grinding progress with US-brokered peace talks. Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused the UK, France, Belgium and the Baltic States of “resurrecting” Nazism in a fresh takedown of the continent.