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Ukraine's energy minister says 'difficult' days lie ahead after latest Russian attacks

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Saturday that the coming days would be "difficult" on the energy front after a massive missile attack by Russia hit critical infrastructure in several regions.

Reuters

Russia's Prigozhin boasts of Wagner prowess amid wrangling with defence establishment

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, boasted of his forces' prowess on Saturday amid a simmering rivalry with the defence ministry over who should get credit for leading Russia's assault on the Ukrainian town of Soledar.

Reuters

Sunak confirms UK will send tanks to Ukraine ‘to push Russian troops back’

Sending Challengers puts pressure on Germany to agree to re-export Leopard tanks as part of wider effort to boost military aid

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Kishida says G7 should show strong will on Russia's Ukraine invasion

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday that the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May should demonstrate a strong will to uphold international order and rule of law after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Moldova says missile debris found in north of the country

The president of Moldova, Ukraine's western neighbour, denounced a new wave of Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets on Saturday after missile debris was found just inside the small former Soviet state's border.

Reuters

Russia sets new contingency plan for crew of damaged space capsule

Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced new contingency plans on Saturday for the three crew of a damaged capsule docked to the International Space Station, saying the U.S. member of the trio would return to Earth in a separate SpaceX vessel if they needed to evacuate in the next few weeks.

Reuters

Defiant Ukrainians sing and dance as Russians launch fresh attack on major train station

Air defence systems were activated on Saturday afternoon in the southern Mykolaiv region, Gov. Vitali Kim said on Telegram, and hinted that some missiles have already been intercepted

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak offers to provide British tanks to Ukraine to help push back Russian troops

A No 10 spokeswoman said the Prime Minister offered Challenger 2 tanks and additional artillery systems as a sign of the UK’s “ambition to intensify our support to Ukraine”.

Manchester Evening News

Ukraine says apartment block in Dnipro badly damaged in Russian missile attack

An apartment block in the east-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro was badly damaged in a Russian missile attack on Saturday and people were trapped under the rubble, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office.

Reuters

Rishi Sunak confirms UK will send Challenger 2 tanks rolling into battle in Ukraine

Following a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today, a No 10 spokesperson confirmed Britain will be "accelerating military and diplomatic support"

Daily Mirror

Western allies and Japan unite to face threat posed by China, Russia

The United States and Japan have unveiled plans to strengthen their military alliance to help counter threats from North Korea and China, which they believe pose the greatest security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.

Radio France Internationale

Vladimir Putin's 'successor' who once saved him from bear sets up drone training school

Alexei Dyumin, 50, was once the bodyguard of despot Vladimir Putin and Russia's ex-deputy defence minister, who led a covert operation in 2014 to help toppled Kyiv president Viktor Yanukovych escape a 13-year jail term in Crimea

Daily Mirror

Tanks will help Kyiv break the deadlock. But its partners now face a fork in the road

Armour will allow Ukraine to mount a spring offensive – but it will also need support vehicles, and most Nato countries have a bare minimum of them. It’s time to invest

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak confirms UK will provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to ‘push Russian troops back’

UK becomes first Western power to supply Ukrainians with main battle tanks as war approaches first anniversary in February

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Russian ex-president Medvedev blasts Japanese PM over US ‘subservience’: ‘He should disembowel himself’

Medvedev said joint statement ‘betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Toll from Russian strike on Dnipro rises to 20 as Sunak confirms tanks supply to Kyiv

Tanks announcement comes as Russia renews air strikes on Ukraine capital Kyiv

Tribune News Service

Putin buys off the poor, writes off middle class with war budget

Alexei Malov’s dream was to own a white Lada.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Al-Sudani: We Established a Strategic Partnership with Germany

Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani has called on German companies to invest in the energy sector in Iraq, especially in oil, gas and electricity. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for his part, revealed on Friday ongoing talks with the Iraqi government over the possibility of importing natural gas from the…

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Russian ex-President Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

How the son of late Flyer Dmitri Tertyshny came to know the dad he never met

PHILADELPHIA — The shirts belonged to his father when he was a hockey-obsessed teenager in Russia with dreams of reaching the NHL. The trading cards were pulled from his dad’s collection, the ones Dmitri Tertyshny thought of when he looked at opponents on the ice and marveled how his hockey…

WEKU

What Putin's shake-up of top commanders could mean for the war in Ukraine

Jealousy. Power struggles. Political infighting. This week's shake-up of Putin's top commanders in charge of Russia's invasion in Ukraine have it all, according to some security experts.

Evening Standard

Russia deploys vessels in response to possible ‘threat’ at Black Sea base

In its latest intelligence update, the MoD said it is ‘unlikely’ that the deployment on Wednesday ‘signifies preparation for unusual maritime-launched cruise-missile strikes’

France 24

Emergency blackouts in 'most regions' of Ukraine due to Russian shelling, minister says

Most regions in Ukraine are experiencing emergency blackouts in the wake of Russian shelling and there will be ‘difficult days’ ahead, Ukraine’s energy minister said Saturday. Russian missile strikes were reported throughout Ukraine on Saturday, including a hit on infrastructure facilities in Kyiv and explosions in the Dniprovskiy district of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Missile Attack Hits Infrastructure in Kyiv

A Russian missile attack hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv on Saturday morning and explosions rang out in the Dniprovskiy district of the Ukrainian capital, a senior presidential official and other officials said. Reuters journalists heard a series of explosions in Kyiv before an air raid siren sounded in Kyiv. Officials…

The Independent UK

Violence soars in Mali in the year after Russians arrive

Western officials say violence against civilians in Mali has risen in the year since hundreds of Russian mercenaries have started working alongside the West African country's armed forces to stem a decade-long insurgency by Islamic extremists

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