Mr Wallace said Putin and his henchmen – former KGB spies known as Siloviki – “do not accept that they were the culprits behind the Soviet Union they inflicted on the Russian people”.

Russia will expend many lives for its goals and has many more to give, but such ruinous losses of men and money cannot be ...

In that scenario, the siloviki—Russia’s security and military elite—would come to regard Putin as a hindrance to a decisive victory over Ukraine, as well as an increasingly unreliable ...

The term combines the words oligarch and siloviki. The latter translates as "people of force" and encompasses leading officials from the security services and law enforcement. According to ...

Kyiv’s surprise campaign has captured hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners of war (POWs). This success is the result of ...

Mr Wallace said Putin and his henchmen – former KGB spies known as Siloviki – “do not accept that they were the culprits behind the Soviet Union they inflicted on the Russian people”.

He was motivated by revenge, legacy and romance. He and his Siloviki (past and present securocrats from the KGB and FSB) do ...

The siloviki rule the roost in Russia; that’s the unofficial term for the hardliners in positions of power in the intelligence services, military and defense, primarily, opposed to liberals like ...

Britain is in Putin’s crosshairs. One of the most senior members of the Russian Siloviki recently commented: “We know Britain is behind the invasion of Kursk”. We weren’t. Make no ...

Vladimir Putin "is coming for" the UK and the country must be prepared "for the inevitable", Ben Wallace has cautioned. The ...

He was motivated by revenge, legacy and romance. He and his Siloviki (past and present securocrats from the KGB and FSB) do not accept that they were the culprits behind the Soviet Union they ...