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Blast damages Russia's sole land link to Crimea

Moscow says a truck explosion ignited a huge fire and severely damaged the Kerch bridge — Russia’s sole land link with annexed Crimea — and has vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

A blast hits the bridge to Crimea, a key supply route in Russia's war

The 12-mile bridge has served as a key auto and rail supply line from Russia into Crimea. A Ukrainian official said the incident was just "the beginning," but stopped short of taking credit.

WEKU

NATO once feared a Putin victory. Now it worries over his defeat

Russia’s latest wave of threats to use nuclear weapons and cut energy supplies even further so far haven’t scared off Ukraine’s allies in the U.S. and Europe, only hardening their will to see Kyiv win.

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Huge fire on important bridge in Crimea as US says Ukraine could retake region

The Kerch bridge represens a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsular

Nottingham Post

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 227 of the invasion

Blasts rock bridge linking Crimea to Russia; Zelenskiy warns on nuclear weapons; Moscow declares Russian rapper a ‘foreign agent’

The Guardian - AU

Three killed as huge explosion causes key Crimea-Russia road bridge to collapse – as it happened

Blast early on Saturday causes road bridge to collapse and engulfs rail bridge in flames

The Guardian - AU

Vladimir Putin 'confronted by own inner circle over Ukraine' as tensions flare in Russia

Russian business executives allegedly described the situation inside the Kremlin as being at 'breaking point'

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Russia declares popular anti-war rapper to be a foreign agent

The Russian justice ministry on Friday declared one of the country's most popular rappers to be a "foreign agent", a legal designation that has been used to hound Kremlin critics and journalists.

Reuters

Ukraine war: West must act now to stop Putin’s threat to world, says Zelensky

The Ukrainian president says the Kremlin has begun to ‘prepare their society’ for the use of nuclear weapons - but he does not believe Moscow is ready to use them

Evening Standard

Russians being prepared for nuclear war, Zelensky warns

‘It’s dangerous to even speak about it,’ warns Ukrainian president as he urges Russian citizens to rise up

The Independent UK

If Vladimir Putin goes, who's next? Come inside the Kremlin, where the Russian leader's successor could be lurking

As Vladimir Putin's disastrous war in Ukraine stretches into an eighth month, observers are openly speculating about who could replace him if his position becomes untenable.

ABC News

Analysis-Defeats in Ukraine stoke crisis for Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin is grappling with the gravest domestic crisis of his 23-year rule: an increasingly public quarrel inside the Russian elite over who is to blame for the battlefield defeats in Ukraine.

Reuters

How Putin lost hearts and minds in eastern Ukraine

The sham referendums serve only to highlight that many once pro-Russian Ukrainians are turning their backs on Moscow, says humanitarian worker Brian Milakovsky

The Guardian - UK

How ‘street justice’ and retribution complicate the war in Ukraine

Collaborators with Russian forces are being brought to justice – but not always through official means, as Kim Sengupta explains from Kramatorsk

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For Europe, Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ warning can’t be dismissed

European leaders said Friday that President Joe Biden’s warning about “Armageddon” and Russia’s possible use of nuclear weapons shows the seriousness of the threat from Moscow’s escalation in Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Putin ‘directly criticised’ by member of inner circle over Ukraine war

Kremlin concedes some in Moscow ‘think we should act differently’ – but denies claim of direct confrontation

Al Jazeera

Is OPEC ‘aligning with Russia’ after production cuts?

The United States has accused OPEC oil-producing nations of siding with Russia after a decision to cut oil output.

The Independent UK

Kremlin lets state media report some Russian losses in Ukraine: ‘There’s a hunt for those responsible’

Authorities hope to bolster support for Russian forces by shifting the reporting policy and reporting battlefield failures without government-sanction spin

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Reuters

Factbox-Memorial: Chronicler of Soviet and recent crimes, banned by Putin

The banned Russian human rights organisation Memorial was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday alongside the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatski.

Bangkok Post

'God put you in power': Russian Orthodox leader tells Putin

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said Friday that Vladimir Putin's reign over Russia had been mandated by God, congratulating the Kremlin chief on his 70th birthday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters

Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu

Daily Mirror

Ukraine behind car bomb that killed daughter of Vladimir Putin's guru, US spooks say

Darya Dugina, daughter of a Putin propagandist, was killed in the attack in Moscow in August but Ukraine has continually denied any involvement

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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

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