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Russia’s Wagner Group opens defence tech centre in St Petersburg

Opening is latest step for private militia’s owner Yevgeny Prigozhin in taking a more public role in shaping Russia’s defence policy

The Guardian - UK

Putin endorses evacuation of Ukraine’s Kherson region

Russia could be preparing to withdraw from parts of the Kherson region, which it claims to have annexed.

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian troops fire on Russians with captured weapons near key city

Ukrainian forces using captured weapons fired at Russian targets near the key eastern city of Bakhmut on Friday as fighting dragged on in an area that Moscow is trying hard to capture.

Reuters

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Ukrainian forces brace for bloody fight for Kherson

Oleh, the commander of a Ukrainian mechanized infantry unit dug into trenches west of Kherson, is confident his Russian foes will be forced to abandon the strategic port by winter weather, logistical logjams and the threat of encirclement.

Reuters

Cleverly: UK will not be deflected by Kremlin ‘distraction’ tactics over Ukraine

Moscow has accused Britain of involvement in a drone attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet.

The Independent UK

Sanctions fail to halt North Korea's accelerating weapons programs

Economic sanctions, the primary means the United States has used for years to try to exert pressure on North Korea, have abjectly failed to halt its nuclear and missile programs or to bring the reclusive northeast Asian state back to the negotiating table.

Reuters

Outspoken Putin ally Prigozhin's St Petersburg defence tech centre opens

Russia's Wagner Group, a private militia controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, opened a military technology centre in St. Petersburg on Friday, the latest move by the Putin ally who has criticized the Kremlin's defence top brass over the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters

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Kyiv residents snap up new stamp celebrating Crimean bridge blast

Residents in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday snapped up a new postage stamp commemorating a blast that damaged a major bridge linking Russia to Crimea in a blow to the prestige of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Reuters

Infosys still operating from Russia eight months after saying it was pulling out

Exclusive: Indian firm from which Rishi Sunak’s wife collects £11.5m in annual dividends retains staffed Moscow officeRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updates

The Guardian - UK

Putin Endorses Evacuation of Parts of Ukraine’s Kherson Region

Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the evacuation of civilians from parts of Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Friday, the latest sign of Russia's retreat in one of the most bitterly contested areas in Ukraine. "Now, of course, those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

Russia continues its relentless assault on Ukraine’s power grid; Putin rejoins UN grain export deal in humiliating U-turn; Kherson residents defy Russian call to evacuate city

The Guardian - AU

US to Send $400 Million More to Ukraine in Military Aid

The US is sending Ukraine $400 million more in military aid and establishing a security assistance headquarters in Germany that will oversee all weapons transfers and military training for Ukraine, the Pentagon announced Friday. The new command post, called the Security Assistance Group Ukraine, signals a more permanent, long-term program…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Xi, Scholz Warn against ‘Irresponsible’ Nuclear Threats over Ukraine

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked "crossing a line" in the international community by resorting to nuclear force. In the first visit by a G7 leader to China since the COVID-19…

Asharq Al-Awsat

G7 focusing more support on helping Ukraine protect against energy grid attacks

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said the Group of Seven countries is focusing more of its security support on helping Ukraine protect against Russia's attacks on its energy grid.

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Putin Says West Sows Nonsense about History

President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the West had hammered historical nonsense into the heads of millions of people, including about the real course of World War Two and the Soviet Union's role in the victory over Nazi Germany. Without citing evidence, Putin repeated a claim that Poland has not…

Reuters

Conflicting reports of curfew in Ukraine's Kherson

A Russian-installed official in the Ukrainian region of Kherson said on Friday that a curfew had been imposed in the city but then swiftly backtracked and said no such limits were in place.

The Independent UK

Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s 'deranged' deputy claims Ukraine war 'is sacred conflict with Satan'

Dmitry Medvedev said Ukrainian troops were "crazy Nazi drug addicts" and those fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation in Vladimir Putin's war were "cowardly traitors and greedy defectors"

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The Guardian - UK

China and Germany condemn Russian threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Xi Jinping tells Olaf Scholz of the need for greater cooperation during ‘times of change and turmoil’

Al Jazeera

How Kyiv copes with blackouts

Residents in Ukraine’s capital try to cope with Russia’s attacks targeting critical infrastructure.

The Guardian - UK

Sixty years ago, true statecraft avoided a nuclear war. We need that again over Ukraine

The danger of a quick slide into all-out nuclear war between Russia and the US is less, but in other ways the risk we face is more alarming, says author and former Moscow correspondent Jonathan Steele

Daily Mirror

Poland's plan to build 180km wire fence on border with Russia slammed as 'inhumane'

Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, migrant rights worker Svetlana Gannushkina says the EU needs to take an active role in helping Poland control the influx of refugees, fearing "building the fence will cause more troubles"

The Independent UK

Greenpeace activists cleared over protest that blocked tanker of Russian oil

A judge stated that Russia’s war in Ukraine ‘could be described as terrorism’.

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin says civilians must be evacuated from Kherson war zone

Russia digs in in preparation for expected attempt by Ukraine to take key southern city, setting scene for possible ferocious battle

The Conversation

COP27: a year on from the Glasgow climate pact, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever

The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO₂ emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits.

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