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The Kremlin has spoken out against FIDE's decision to ban chess star Sergej Karjakin - the Russian will be unable to play for six months following his comments on his country's invasion of Ukraine

Claim comes days after Mariupol authorities said thousands of its residents had been deported

Ukraine says it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol. Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv and black smoke rose from a spot in the north.

The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the Kremlin on the violent conflict in Ukraine

The Kremlin critic was previously targeted with a nerve agent

Some say the country’s losses could rival those of its wars in Chechnya or Afghanistan

Alexei Navalny was previously targeted with a nerve agent.

Subsidiary under pressure as UK firms and public authorities shun companies linked to Kremlin

Vladimir Putin opponent and Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny has been found guilty of fraud in an internationally condemned trial. The lawyer has faced death threats, jail and a Novichok poisoning already