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Russia Withdraws Troops after Ukraine Encircles Key City

After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin. Russia’s withdrawal from Lyman complicates its internationally vilified declaration…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Feared Wagner commander killed in Ukraine as Russia's heavy losses continue

Wagner Group commander Aleksei Nagin and secret service officer Aleksei Katerinichev have been killed in Ukraine in two further blows for Vladimir Putin's invasion

Daily Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 220 of the invasion

Putin signs ‘accession treaties’ illegally claiming parts of Ukraine; Zelenskiy applies for Ukraine to join Nato; Russians hit civilian convoy, killing dozensSee all our Ukraine coverage

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Vladimir Putin signs illegal annexation of Ukrainian regions; Volodymyr Zelenskiy applies for Ukraine to join Nato; drafted Russians must flee or fight

The Guardian - AU

Putin’s annexation bid in Ukraine triggers new sanctions, Western condemnation

WASHINGTON — The war in Ukraine lurched into a volatile new phase Friday as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees declaring the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, drawing widespread international condemnation and triggering punitive new economic measures from Washington and its Western allies.

Los Angeles Times

Putin’s Ukraine land-grab condemned by West as Zelensky fast-tracks Nato bid

The Russian leader signed treaties on Friday for an illegal annexation of occupied Ukrainian territory in a sharp escalation of his seven-month invasion

Evening Standard

Analysis: Russia's war in Ukraine reaches a critical moment

There are moments in history that appear as critical to the world as they are terrifying

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Vladimir Putin used to call out America for its hubris. Now he appears to have fallen into the same trap

Vladimir Putin has regularly warned the West of the dangers of getting stuck in foreign conflicts. So why does he appear to be ignoring his own advice and wading deeper and deeper into his ruinous war with Ukraine?

ABC News

Russians push baseless theory blaming US for burst pipeline

The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory blaming the U.S. for damage to natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea

The Independent UK

Putin vows annexation of occupied Ukraine lands is ‘forever’

Vladimir Putin vowed his annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine is irreversible, as the Russian president formalized Europe’s biggest land grab since World War II and accused the West of trying to subjugate his country.

Tribune News Service

US sanctions Russia after Putin annexes parts of Ukraine

WASHINGTON — The United States and Group of 7 allies responded Friday to what they called Russia's illegitimate annexation of Ukrainian territories, issuing a new round of sanctions and warning other nations that they will be similarly punished should they support the Kremlin's latest move.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine Applies for NATO Membership, Rules Out Putin Talks

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a surprise bid for fast-track membership of the NATO military alliance on Friday and ruled out talks with President Vladimir Putin, striking back at Moscow after it said it had annexed four Ukrainian regions. Zelenskiy signed the NATO application papers in an online video clearly intended…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia: what the history of WWII conscription shows us about who gets sent to the front lines

Russian president Vladimir Putin has yet to call for universal conscription, although he recently announced mobilisation of 300,000 reservists. The reason why the Kremlin has not introduced a wider policy may lie in the history of conscription and its impact on public support for war.

The Conversation

Russian military showing increased frailty in Ukraine war -British military chief

Russia's mobilization has exposed the mounting pressure the Kremlin is under as its armed forces show signs of "increased weakness and frailty" in the war in Ukraine, Britain's Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said on Friday.

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The Guardian - UK

Ukraine applies for Nato membership after Russia annexes territory

Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismisses Moscow ceremony as a farce and rules out negotiations with Putin

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's TV propagandists suggest UK divers behind Nord Stream pipeline bombings

Olga Skabeyeva suggested in a recent TV broadcast that British military divers may have been behind the explosions in the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic

Radio France Internationale

Putin signs document incorporating occupied areas of Ukraine into Russia

In defiance of international law, President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia. Most governments have declared the move illegal.

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin signs treaties to make annexed Ukrainian regions part of Russia

Move raises the stakes in war which has claimed thousands of lives

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Foreign Affairs

Putin’s Roulette

Sacrificing his core supporters in a race against defeat.

Tribune News Service

Putin vows annexation of occupied Ukraine lands is ‘forever’

Vladimir Putin vowed Russia’s annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine is irreversible as he prepared to formalize Europe’s biggest land grab since World War II, defying efforts by Kyiv, backed by the U.S. and its allies, to recapture its lost territory.

The Guardian - UK

Putin annexes four regions of Ukraine in major escalation of Russia’s war

Russian president signs ‘accession treaties’ at Kremlin in defiance of international law and US responds with sanctions

Reuters

Putin slams 'imperialist' West, says it fears Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday vowed to defend Russia's "homeland and values" in a defiant speech from the Kremlin in which he announced Russia was annexing four regions from Ukraine and said the West feared Russian culture.

Reuters

Kremlin says any attack on annexed territory will be an attack on Russia

The Kremlin said on Friday that attacks against any part of the swathe of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin was about to annex would be considered aggression against Russia itself, adding that Russia would fight to take the whole of the eastern Donbas region.

Reuters

Putin informs Russian parliament of plan to annex Ukrainian regions

The head of Russia's lower chamber of parliament said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin had notified the house about plans to admit four regions of Ukraine into Russia - a technical step towards Russia's annexation of the territories.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin: Any Attack on Annexed Territory Will be an Attack on Russia

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