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Ukraine frees Putin ally in swap deal for hundreds of troops

Ukraine handed over a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for hundreds of prisoners of war including many captured in a landmark battle, a swap that outraged pro-Kremlin propagandists.

Tribune News Service

Putin’s call-up brings reality of war home to many Russians

President Vladimir Putin’s order to call up as many as 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine triggered alarm and demonstrations as Russians were forced to confront the reality of the deadly conflict.

Tribune News Service

Kremlin denies that mobilisation decree allows a million to be enlisted

The Kremlin on Thursday denied a report by the independent Novaya Gazeta Europe that an undisclosed clause in President Vladimir Putin's decree on partial mobilisation provided for one million reservists to be enlisted to fight in Ukraine.

Reuters

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Ukraine war: Lavrov walks out of UN security council; Russians flee country to avoid military draft – as it happened

Queues seen at Russia’s land borders and flights sell out as Moscow begins drafting citizens into army to fight in Ukraine

The Guardian - AU

More than 1,300 arrested in anti-war protests across Russia

Demonstrators heard shouting ‘send Putin to the trenches’

The Independent UK

Kremlin: reports of exodus of fighting-age men are exaggerated

The Kremlin on Thursday said reports of an exodus of draft-age men from Russia after President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial mobilisation were "exaggerated".

Reuters

Thursday briefing: How to make sense of Putin’s nuclear threats

Putin has mobilised reservists and is threatening to use nuclear weapons, but is he serious – and what is really at stake?

The Guardian - UK

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Son of top Kremlin official has 'no intention' of call-up for Putin’s war mobilisation

The son of a senior Kremlin official has claimed he would use his connections to avoid a military call-up after falling for a prank call from a man pretending be an army officer

Daily Mirror

Putin issuing nuclear threats to cover up ‘catastrophic failure’ in Ukraine, says Truss

‘It’s not a bluff’: Russian leader’s chilling threat to use ‘means of destruction’

The Independent UK

Truss hits out at ‘catastrophic failure’ of Putin in Ukraine in UN speech

Comments by the Russian leader in a televised address to the nation appeared to suggest the conflict in Ukraine could spiral into a nuclear crisis.

The Independent UK

Cornered by war, Putin makes another nuclear threat

President Vladimir Putin says he won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons to protect Russian territory, a threat that comes as Moscow is poised to annex swaths of Ukraine that Moscow has taken over after hastily called referendums there

The Independent UK

Five British prisoners of war held by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine are safely returned

Prime Minister Liz Truss confirmed the five Brits had been released

Manchester Evening News

How seriously should we take Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons against West?

The use of weapons of mass destruction would be a last resort for Vladimir Putin as it would invite global condemnation and risk a retaliatory attack, our helpful Q&A explains

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on Putin’s military escalation: a failing strategy

Editorial: Vladimir Putin is placing a losing bet that demoralised Russian conscripts can outfight Ukrainians defending their homeland

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The Guardian - UK

Russian nuclear sabre-rattling is designed to create fear in the west

Russian announcements cover up fact that mobilisation will take months to have impact

Daily Mirror

Five Brit prisoners of war including man sentenced to death safely returned from Ukraine

Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed the release of the five Brits - including Aiden Aslin, who had been sentenced to execution - after reports of Saudi Arabia's mediation talks with Vladimir Putin

Daily Mirror

Terrified Russians shout 'I'm not going to die for Vladimir Putin' after announcement

Protests have been taking place across Russia in response to Vladimir Putin's call-up of 300,000 reservists who are being forced to fight in the country's invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Navalny says Putin’s mobilisation order will result in ‘massive amount of deaths’

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has accused president Vladimir Putin of trying to “smear hundreds of thousands of people” in a “criminal war” after he ordered a partial mobilisation of Russian reserves.

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Evening Standard

Ukraine war: Joe Biden condemns Vladimir Putin for ‘reckless’ nuclear threats in United Nations address

US President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on Wednesday

The Guardian - UK

Putin announces partial mobilisation and threatens nuclear retaliation in escalation of Ukraine war

Russian president threatens west with nuclear retaliation, saying ‘we will use all the means at our disposal’

Tribune News Service

Putin’s war in Ukraine should make your ‘blood run cold,’ Biden says

President Joe Biden condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion as a violation of the principles underpinning the United Nations and called on the world to maintain support of Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

6 options for desperate Vladimir Putin after alarming escalation in Russia-Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has alarmed many in the West by mobilising 300,000 troops and issuing threats of nuclear strikes. The Mirror has looked at six possible outcomes in the war in Ukraine

Axios

Biden at UN rebukes Russia's "outrageous" invasion of Ukraine

"This war is about extinguishing Ukraine's right to exist as a state — plain and simple," Biden said.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat is 'bluster' and it hides 'genuine weakness'

British politician Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, the former Secretary General of NATO, believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is full of "bluster" over his threat of a nuclear response in Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Sarcasm, scepticism in Ukraine over Russia’s partial mobilisation

Ukrainians say Moscow’s latest move to deploy more troops does not fill them with fear.

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