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Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia

Russian military claims it repelled incursion by 300 soldiers up to six miles into Kursk border region

The Guardian - UK

Russia Says Fighting Off Ukrainian Border Attack

Russia said Tuesday it was holding off Ukrainian troops, tanks and armoured vehicles trying to break across the border into its Kursk region, the latest in several such attempted incursions throughout the conflict.

International Business Times

Goodbye to Russia by Sarah Rainsford review – falling foul of Putin

This compelling chronicle of post-Soviet Russia by the BBC’s former Moscow correspondent captures vividly the tyranny and dark comedy of the president’s rule

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How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

Sofia, 11, and Daniel, 8, did not speak the language and knew nothing about their new home country

The Guardian - UK

Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery around Pablo González's double life

Among the Russians freed in this week's historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019

The Independent UK

Armenia looks to reopen border with Turkey as potential gateway to the West

Joint military exercises between US and Armenian forces are the latest steps in Yerevan's efforts to shift away from Moscow. The potential reopening of the Armenian border with Turkey could also prove crucial – though it may ultimately depend on Armenia's rival, Azerbaijan.

Radio France Internationale

‘I thought we’d win the Champions League when I saved Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty in Moscow – I jumped up, but it took me a few seconds to realise John Terry missed’: Chelsea legend Petr Cech recalls 2008 heartbreak

Petr Cech's save was the difference between Manchester United and Chelsea in the Champions League final going into the tenth kick...

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Ukraine war briefing: Waves of Russian bombings and infantry assaults drive major gains in east

Russian military intensifies pressure on key Ukrainian transport hub of Pokrovsk; Kyiv receives bodies of 250 slain soldiers in exchange with Moscow. What we know on day 892

The Guardian - AU

Freed Russian Dissidents Bittersweet On Historic Swap

Russian dissidents freed as part of a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West this week shared their mixed feelings Friday about the deal at a news conference in Germany.

International Business Times

Russian prisoner swap deal was to have included Alexei Navalny

Negotiations, which began months earlier, originally included release of late opposition leader

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s hitman, spies and a credit card fraudster: The prisoners returned to Russia in historic swap

While there is only one known assassin among them, all of the Russians exchanged in Thursday’s trade have unique, and in most cases, quite surreal, backstories, reports Justin Rohrlich

The Independent UK

Who are the Russians freed in massive multinational prisoner swap?

US and Russia orchestrated their largest prisoner swap since fall of the Soviet Union

Evening Standard

China needs to pick a side, and it just might pick the west

For the Kremlin, its “partner of no limits”, China, isn’t doing enough to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. So, Russia has signed a peace treaty with North Korea, hoping to pressure China into backing Moscow’s war effort further.

The Conversation

How Putin Might Gain Or Lose From The Prisoner Swap

When eight Russian citizens including a convicted hitman touched down in Moscow on Thursday in a historic prisoner swap with the West, President Vladimir Putin greeted them like heroes.

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The Guardian - UK

Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin

Spokesperson hints killer exchanged in prisoner swap was linked to Putin’s personal guard

France 24

FSB and sleeper agents among the Russians freed in prisoner swap

Members of Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, and sleeper agents living abroad were among those freed in a multinational prisoner swap on Thursday. The children of deep-cover agents posing as Argentinian expats in Slovenia were not even aware of their Russian heritage until they were transported to Moscow along…

International Business Times

What Now For Russian Opposition After Prisoner Swap?

Eight Russian opposition activists, including some very influential ones, are among the people who were released by Moscow in a historic prisoner exchange with the West.

The Independent UK

Kremlin acknowledges intelligence operatives among the Russians who were freed in swap

New details have emerged on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West were from its security services

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Kremlin Admits At Least Three Russian Agents Freed In Deal

The Kremlin on Friday said that at least three Russians freed in a landmark prisoner exchange were undercover Russian agents, a rare public admission into the work of Moscow's top-secret security services.

Al Jazeera

Russian ‘hostage diplomacy’ pays off: Decoding a wartime prisoner exchange

Swap during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine significant for the West and Russia, but not Kyiv, analysts say.

The Guardian - UK

Russia-US prisoner swap: Kremlin confirms hitman Vadim Krasikov worked for FSB security service – as it happened

Moscow says Krasikov, returned by Germany as part of prisoner swap, served in Alpha Group, the FSB’s special forces unit

Al Jazeera

Who was freed in biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War?

Journalists, artists, dissidents, hackers and a hitman go free as 26 swapped in large-scale prisoner exchange.

International Business Times

Russia Frees US Reporter In Huge Prisoner Swap With West

US journalist Evan Gershkovich and a Russian intelligence colonel jailed for a Berlin murder were among two dozen prisoners freed Thursday in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Inside the secret talks behind the biggest US-Russia prisoner swap since end of Cold War

The behind-the-scenes operation was documented meticulously by the Wall Street Journal, which has been unable to reveal its secrets until now

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Vladimir Putin Welcomes Released Russian Citizens In Moscow

President Putin welcomes released Russian citizens in a prisoner swap with Ukraine, signaling diplomatic progress and potential for improved relations.

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