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Igor Strelkov: Moscow targets a pro-war Russian who criticised Putin

Igor Strelkov raged against the president after the Wagner mutiny, and could now face years in jail.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: arrest of Russian pro-war blogger likely to trigger fury in military, says UK – as it happened

Former intelligence officer Igor Girkin arrested on ‘extremism’ charges after criticising Putin

The Guardian - AU

Russian arrest of pro-war blogger ‘likely to trigger fury in military’

Anti-Putin critic Igor Girkin was arrested at his Moscow flat on Friday morning

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Ukrainian drone strike in Crimea ‘closed road and prompted evacuation’

Russian-installed governor, Sergei Aksyonov, reports explosion at ammunition depot but no casualties

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 514

These are the main developments as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 514th day.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 514 of the invasion

Moscow ‘waging war’ on global food supply, US tells UN; Putin says it will use ‘all means at its disposal’ to defend Belarus after Warsaw moves troops to east

The Guardian - AU

Search continues for entrepreneur after Sydney boat crash – as it happened

Police extend search for Andrew Findlay after body of art dealer Tim Klingender was found

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Russia arrests pro-war Putin critic Igor Girkin, according to reports

FSB agents come to Girkin’s home and escort him away ‘in an unknown direction’

The Guardian - UK

Australia slaps sanctions against those involved in downing flight MH17 over Ukraine

At least 298 people, including 38 Australians, were killed in downing of the plane in 2014

The Independent UK

Pro-war nationalists say they are entering Russian politics to counter turmoil

Pro-war Russian nationalists led by Igor Girkin said on Friday that a new group they had set up was entering politics to save Russia, which they warned was in danger of turmoil or even collapse due to military failures in the Ukraine war.

Reuters

Revealed: how Cypriot firm helped the ‘Orthodox oligarch’ after he was placed under sanctions

Konstantin Malofeyev, accused of aiding pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, appeared to continue moving money through the global system

The Guardian - UK

Shifting the blame: Ukraine responds to Vladimir Putin address

To Ukrainian observers, threat of a new Cold War is just a bluff aimed at disguising the Russian leader’s desperation.

Al Jazeera

Russian hawks fume after Biden beats Putin to a triumphant welcome in Kyiv

Biden's morale-boosting trip to Ukraine forced the Kremlin to soothe tempers by claiming the U.S. President only gathered his courage after receiving security guarantees in advance.

Fortune

Russian defence chief keeps job despite Ukraine routs thanks to Putin

His army has made three humiliating retreats in Ukraine in the past year and nearly 200,000 of his men have been killed or wounded according to U.S. officials, but Russia's defence minister is still in a job thanks to President Vladimir Putin.

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Reuters

Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war

Vladimir Putin casts the war in Ukraine as a watershed when Russia finally stood up to the West - but some within the elite fear he has committed his country to a long and fruitless drain on lives and resources.

Bangkok Post

Putin 'likely approved MH17 missile supply'

THE HAGUE: There are "strong indications" that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the supply of the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, international investigators said on Wednesday.

ABC News

Why the salt mines of Soledar, a 'network of underground cities', are prized by Russian mercenaries

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the landscape around Soledar is covered in Russian corpses. The head of Russia's feared Wagner Group calls neighbouring Bakhmut a "meat grinder". So why do the Russians keep coming?

Al Jazeera

Russia now says 89 killed in Ukraine attack, blames mobile phones

Ukraine claims that about 400 Russian soldiers were killed in a raid on military quarters in Makiivka on Sunday.

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Factbox-What do we know about the Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on Russian troops?

A Ukrainian missile strike on Jan. 1 against a vocational school in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine housing mobilised Russian troops has become one of the bloodiest incidents of Russia's nearly year-long war in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russia says 63 troops killed in Ukrainian attack on Makiivka

Ukraine puts death toll from New Year’s Eve strike in the occupied city of Makiivka at 400 Russian soldiers.

Reuters

Analysis-Russia's grim battle for Bakhmut may yield pyrrhic victory at best

The nearly five-month battle for the small city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine has ground on for so long and wrought so much death and destruction that, even if Russia does prevail, it will be a pyrrhic victory, military experts say.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: EU agrees extra €2bn for Ukraine military support; two civilians die after Russian rockets hit Donetsk town – as it happened

EU foreign ministers sign off more money for European Peace Facility; 10 people injured in attack on Hirnyk in Donetsk region

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 292 of the invasion

Ukraine attacks barracks in Russian-occupied city of Melitopol; emergency crews work to ease power shortages across Ukraine after Russian attacks

Reuters

Some Russian soldiers in Ukraine unhappy with top brass, nationalist blogger says

Some Russian officers fighting in Ukraine are unhappy with the military top brass and President Vladimir Putin because of the poor execution of the war, an influential nationalist Russian blogger said after visiting the conflict zone.

ABC News

Igor Girkin was one of three convicted of murder over the MH17 attack and is the elusive figure behind Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine

An ultranationalist former spy and self-described war addict, Igor Girkin is among three men sentenced to life in prison over the murders of 298 innocent people onboard MH17. With a $149,000 bounty on his head, he is yet to face justice.

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