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Lithuania's Nauseda: Need to build strong deterrence to keep Kremlin at bay

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Reuters

Putin turns 70 with a prayer for his health amid war crisis

President Vladimir Putin turned 70 on Friday amid fawning congratulations from subordinates and a plea from Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for all to pray for the health of the longest-serving paramount leader of Russia since Josef Stalin.

Reuters

Putin's path: from pledges of stability to nuclear threats

As he turns 70, Russian President Vladimir Putin finds himself in the eye of a storm of his own making: His army is suffering humiliating defeats in Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Biden Warns of Nuclear 'Armageddon' after Russian Threats on Ukraine

US President Joe Biden said Thursday the world is facing nuclear "Armageddon", warning that Vladimir Putin may use his atomic arsenal as Russian troops struggle against a Ukrainian counteroffensive. After Russia's invasion eight months ago, Putin has made thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons if he feels he has…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia-Ukraine war: Russians being prepared for nuclear war, warns Zelenskiy; White House says no indication of immediate Russian plans – as it happened

Ukrainian president calls situation ‘very dangerous’; White House remarks on nuclear weapons come after Biden ‘Armageddon’ comments

The Guardian - AU

Vladimir Putin suffering from 'aching back problems' as tyrant turns 70 'in pain'

Russian president Vladimir Putin's health has been back in the spotlight in recent days due to the now-70-year-old's "aching back pain", according to newly released reports

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'won't be leading Russia in foreseeable future'

Russian president said to have been visited dozens of times by cancer specialists, and has been seen in public limping

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Ukraine lauds Kherson gains as Russian strike destroys building

Battlefield wins reported in south as officials report deaths after Russian strike on apartment building.

Al Jazeera

Kremlin denounces Zelenskiy's comments about preventive strikes -RIA

The Kremlin on Thursday denounced comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he suggested NATO should launch preventive strikes to rule out any Russian use of nuclear weapons, RIA news agency said.

Reuters

'Mad and dying' Putin turns 70 as stalling war written across his 'steroid-addled face'

The Kremlin leader remains as menacing as ever ahead of his birthday on Friday, amid reports that a Russian "nuclear train" is heading towards Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza accused of ‘high treason’

Opposition activist who has spoken out against war in Ukraine faces 20 years in prison if convicted

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin 'wants to take world with him' and has 'already decided to use nukes'

Political scientist Valery Solovey, a former professor at Moscow’s Institute of International Relations [MGIMO], claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is in poor health and is dying

Daily Mirror

Russian elites ramp up criticism amid Moscow's setbacks in Ukraine

A growing list of failings and military defeats in Ukraine have spawned angry outbursts from members of the Russian elite – including lawmakers, media figures and at least one former general – who generally still support Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" but are now actively blaming army chiefs for a…

France 24

Ukraine recap: bad news from the battlefield for Putin, renewed nuclear threats from Russia

Vladimir Putin had barely finished his speech last Friday welcoming four new regions into Mother Russia, when his mouthpiece, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted that they didn’t actually know where the borders of these regions were. “We will clarify everything today,” he said, when quizzed as to whether Russia…

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin won't be in charge of Russia in the 'foreseeable future', insider claims

Vladimir Putin is said to have been visited around 35 times by medical specialists with cancer expertise, according to the Russian opposition website Proyekt and has been seen limping

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 225 of the invasion

Missile strike on Zaporizhzhia residential buildings; Putin appears to admit severe losses in Ukraine; IAEA chief heads to Kyiv

Daily Mirror

Top Vladimir Putin general rips into military chiefs as Russia descends into infighting

General Andrei Kartapolov has lambasted military chiefs in Moscow over their performance in the war in Ukraine and called for an end to "lies" being perpetrated by the Kremlin

Radio France Internationale

Oil prices climb as world's biggest exporters agree to cut output

In Vienna, ministers from the 13-nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a group of 10 exporters led by Russia agreed to reduce production by 2 million barrels a day from November. The move pushed up global oil prices, but the Kremlin says production reduction is intended to…

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Ukraine war: how the Biden administration is responding to Putin's threats to go nuclear

Joe Biden has warned that any use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine by Russia could lead to “Armageddon”. Speaking at a Democratic fundraising event in New York on October 6, the US president said the crisis was the closest the world had come to nuclear catastrophe for sixty years.

The Independent UK

Moscow denies 700,000 have fled since Putin’s call-up order – but does not have ‘exact figure’

‘I don’t think those numbers should be taken seriously,’ says Kremlin spokesperson

Reuters

Putin's defence minister should consider suicide, Russian-installed official says

A Russian-installed official in Ukraine on Thursday suggested President Vladimir Putin's defence minister should consider killing himself due to the shame of the defeats in the Ukraine war, an astonishing public insult to Russia's top brass.

Reuters

Kremlin rejects reports that 700,000 have fled Russia

The Kremlin on Thursday denied reports that 700,000 Russians have fled the country since Moscow announced a mobilisation drive to call up hundreds of thousands to fight in Ukraine.

Reuters

Nord Stream investigation finds evidence of detonations, Swedish police say

A crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Europe found evidence of detonations, strengthening suspicions of "gross sabotage", Sweden's Security Service said on Thursday.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine president urges world not to give in to Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ during Australian address

Volodymyr Zelenskiy calls on leaders to back next week’s UN vote condemning Russia’s purported annexation of four regions

The Conversation

Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year, the Kremlin has sought by every means to minimise the reality of war. The description of the invasion as a “special operation” and persecution of anyone who dared call it by any other name is intended to underline the supposedly…

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