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Russia’s Shoigu: Capture of Bakhmut Will Allow Further Offensives in Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that the seizure of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine was critical to punching a hole in Ukrainian defenses and would allow Moscow's forces to mount further offensive operations deeper inside the country. Russian forces have been waging an intense campaign for months to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Assad to Visit Moscow in Mid-March for Talks with the Kremlin

The Kremlin confirmed on Monday media leaks about preparations for an imminent visit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Russia, refraining from giving additional details about the ongoing arrangements. A source close to the Russian Foreign Ministry told Asharq Al-Awsat said that the Russian and Syrian sides attached great importance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian leaders agree to continue Bakhmut defence as casualties mount

Head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force says his troops’ position could be in peril due to a lack of ammunition

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Who are the Wagner mercenaries and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

The Independent UK

Four thousand civilians in Bakhmut, says Ukraine, as west says Russia has sustained up to 30,000 casualties there – as it happened

Ukraine deputy PM says around 38 children remain in besieged city as western officials estimate Russia has sustained heavy losses there

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine’s forces say they are holding out in ‘utter hell’ of fight for eastern city of Bakhmut

It comes as the head of the Russian Wagner merecenary group complains that their frontlines around the city could collapse without ammunition

The Independent UK

After 70 years, Stalin’s shadow still looms over Russia and Ukraine – but Putin is a tyrant in his own right

Joseph Stalin took his last breath 70 years ago. He died of a cerebral haemorrhage on March 5 1953, aged 74, at his dacha – or country house – west of the Kremlin in a leafy pocket of Moscow’s urban sprawl.

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Belarus sentences exiled critic Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in jail

MOSCOW: Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in prison for spearheading historic protests against the former Soviet country's authoritarian leader.

Bangkok Post

Ukraine vows to fortify defences in frontline Bakhmut

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine pledged on Monday to bolster its defences in frontline Bakhmut, after reports that Kyiv was withdrawing from the city that's become a symbolic prize in the war.

Bangkok Post

Russia steps up effort to take elusive prize of Ukraine city

The fate of Bakhmut appears to be hanging in the balance as Russian forces continue to encroach on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city

The Independent UK

Kyiv Says Forces Are Holding On in ‘Utter Hell’ of Bakhmut Battle

Ukraine said on Monday its troops were still holding out in a brutal fight for Bakhmut, while Washington said that even if the eastern city should fall to a Russian offensive, it would not necessarily give Moscow momentum in the war. In the latest sign of a feud between Russia's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia says it thwarts Ukraine-backed murder plot against nationalist tycoon

Russia's FSB security service said on Monday it had thwarted a Ukraine-backed car bomb attack against a prominent nationalist businessman who has been a cheerleader for Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian mercenary group chief says Putin’s position in Bakhmut at risk

Russian fighters asked to fight Ukrainian forces with ‘firearms and shovels’

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin: What is driving Russian leader’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

He sold the invasion as a collective decision with his military chiefs, but it is the president alone who will have to answer to history, writes Mary Dejevsky

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Moscow split between adoration and disgust, 70 years after Stalin's death

MOSCOW: More than a thousand people gathered on Moscow's Red Square on Sunday for the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose divisive legacy looms over the Ukraine conflict.

The Independent UK

Scholz: 'consequences' if China sends arms to Russia

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says there would be “consequences” if China sends weapons to Russia for Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but he’s fairly optimistic that Beijing will refrain from doing so

Bangkok Post

Kyiv says Russia pursuing 'attempts to encircle' Bakhmut

KYIV, Ukraine: Kyiv said Sunday it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.

France 24

🔴 Zelensky pays tribute to troops in 'difficult' fight as Bakhmut battle rages

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky on Sunday paid tribute to his soldiers fighting in a "painful and difficult" battle in the eastern Donbas region, which includes the city of Bakhmut that Russia has been trying to capture for months. Ukrainian troops have vowed to defend "fortress Bakhmut". Read our blog to…

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv vows to defend ‘fortress Bakhmut’ – as it happened

Eastern Ukrainian city has been mostly reduced to rubble during longest and bloodiest battle of the invasion

The Guardian - UK

Russian minister’s claim Ukraine war ‘launched against us’ met with laughter

Sergei Lavrov says Moscow ‘trying to stop’ war in remarks at India’s Raisina Dialogue conference

Reuters

North Korea's state media backs Russian call for probe into pipeline blast

North Korean state media weighed in on Saturday on allegations that Western nations were involved in blasts that damaged Russia's undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year, in the latest move by Pyongyang to express support for Moscow.

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An American walked her pet cow in Moscow's Red Square. Spoiler alert: Trouble ensued

Animal rights activist Alicia Day says she routinely walks her farm animals in public to encourage people to think twice about eating meat. Why she chose to do so in the center of Moscow isn't clear.

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

The relentless battle for Bakhmut; Russian plane blown up near Minsk; Putin claims west seeks to ‘dismember’ Russia

Bangkok Post

Russia border town on edge after Ukraine 'incursion'

KLIMOVO (RUSSIA) - Russians in the border region of Bryansk were on edge Friday after Moscow accused Ukrainian combatants of killing two civilians in a rare cross-border incursion.

The Independent UK

US sanctions Russian officials over dissident's detention

The U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on five Russian officials and an expert witness involved in the incarceration of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician who has been imprisoned in Moscow since April for speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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