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Putin says Russia must enhance economic sovereignty due to sanctions threat

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia needed to work on increasing its economic sovereignty and that the West would always find a pretext to impose sanctions on Moscow.

Reuters

Putin tells Ukraine to sit down for talks with Moscow-backed separatists

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Ukraine on Friday to sit down for negotiations with Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine's east, citing rising tensions in the region and calling for the implementation of the Minsk peace process.

Reuters

Latvia urges West to keep talking to Moscow to make an attack more difficult

The West needs to keep talking to Russia to make it more difficult for Moscow to launch an attack on Ukraine, Latvia said on Friday, as two days of increased shelling in eastern Ukraine sparked fears a Russian invasion could be imminent.

Reuters

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Pro-Russia rebels evacuate civilians from east Ukraine as the West fears imminent invasion

US and UK warn that Moscow may use increased shelling in eastern Ukraine as a ‘pretext’ to invade

The Independent UK

Kremlin foe Navalny's brother thought to have left Russia - Ifax

Russia believes jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's brother, who is wanted by authorities in Moscow, left the country for Cyprus last year and has not returned, Interfax news agency cited a court in Russia as saying on Friday.

Reuters

Putin to oversee ‘strategic’ missile drills

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Saturday will oversee military drills involving Russian “strategic forces” which will include ballistic and cruise missile launches, the defence ministry said.

Bangkok Post

Kaja Kallas: ‘There is a certain naivety towards Russia’

The Estonian prime minister on the Baltic state’s precarious position and why many European nations misread Moscow

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Russia: Putin to oversee huge nuclear drills amid Ukraine tension

Saturday’s exercise will involve practice launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.

Al Jazeera

Russia and Ukraine should make us rethink our approach to defence and energy

The barrages and counter-battery fire of propaganda and accusations of “false flag” operations have begun in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have been charged with shelling a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska. Moscow has declared that such unprovoked action against Russian separatists may need “military-technical action” in response — in other words, war.

Evening Standard

Russia welcomes India's position on Ukraine situation

Russia on Friday welcomed India's position on the Ukraine crisis, amid spike in tensions between the NATO countries and Moscow over the situation in the eastern European nation.

Dynamite News

Vladimir Putin to watch Russian nuclear missile tests amid fears of Ukraine attack

Vladimir Putin is set to oversee nuclear missile tests on Saturday amid fears he will green light an invasion of Ukraine in the coming days

Daily Mirror

Lukashenko arrives for talks with Putin on Russian force presence

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko landed in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin that Minsk said could determine how much longer Russian military forces remain in the ex-Soviet republic north of Ukraine.

Reuters

Allies Watch for Kremlin Attempt to Justify Ukraine Invasion

The US issued some of its starkest, most detailed warnings yet about how a Russian invasion of Ukraine might unfold, and its Western allies went on high alert for any attempts by the Kremlin to create a false pretext for a new war in Europe. US President Joe Biden sounded…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Germany Accuses Russia of 'Cold War Demands' before Security Conference

Germany accused Russia on Friday of endangering Europe's security with demands that recall the Cold War, as Western leaders arrived for a Munich Security Conference set to be dominated by the Ukraine crisis. Fears are growing in the West that Russia is on the verge of invading its neighbor, with…

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Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine updates: US says Putin made decision to invade

Russia-Ukraine news from February 18: Biden says Moscow has plan to attack Kyiv in ‘coming days’.

The Guardian - US

Biden says diplomacy still possible; OSCE reports more attacks in east – as it happened

Russian state media say a blast has occurred in Donetsk amid multiple US warnings of false flag incidents

Los Angeles Times

US and NATO officials ramp up warnings of potential Russian aggression in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned Thursday that Russia “is preparing to launch an attack” against Ukraine, echoing earlier comments from U.S. and Western officials who said an invasion could come any day and that Moscow would seek to use disinformation to create a pretext for such…

Los Angeles Times

US and NATO officials ramp up warnings of potential Russian aggression in Ukraine

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France 24

As it happened: Russia-backed rebels evacuate civilians in east Ukraine

Several Russian infantry units returned to their bases in Dagestan and Chechnya after completing drills in Crimea, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Friday. Pro-Russian separatists accused the Ukrainian military of shelling in eastern Ukraine, while Ukraine’s military said it has recorded dozens of ceasefire…

Foreign Affairs

What If Russia Wins?

A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe

Los Angeles Times

US and NATO officials ramp up warnings of potential Russian aggression in Ukraine

The Independent UK

UN council backs talk, but no Russia pledge against invasion

One by one, U.N. Security Council members called Thursday for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine

Los Angeles Times

US and NATO officials ramp up warnings of potential Russian aggression in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned Thursday that Russia “is preparing to launch an attack” against Ukraine, echoing comments earlier in the day from U.S. and Western officials who said an invasion could come at any minute and that Moscow would seek to use disinformation to create…

The Independent UK

Biden tells Ohio audience he is returning to DC because of ‘a little thing going on in Europe right now’

President is returning to Washington amid heightened tensions with Moscow over Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Britain steps up Ukraine warnings despite assurance from Moscow

Analysis: evidence contrasts with statements from Russia that troops are being sent back to barracks

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