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Beet This: Ukraine Wins Fight to Protect Borshch Soup

The UN's cultural agency on Friday inscribed the culture surrounding beetroot soup known as borshch in Ukraine on its list of endangered cultural heritage, a recognition sought urgently by Kviv after its invasion by neighboring Russia. Ukraine prizes borshch, a nourishing soup with beetroot as its base, as a national…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taking on Putin through porn: how Russians are finding out the truth about Ukraine

Little moderation, huge audiences and biddable owners make porn and gambling sites a safe haven from censors, says Jemimah Steinfeld, editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship

The Guardian - UK

Russia continuing to make ‘minor’ advances but suffering ‘dwindling stockpiles’ of modern weapons

The report came after deadly missile strikes near Odesa

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Rebel Moscow Theater Shuts Doors after Final Show

The Gogol Centre theater, one of the last bastions of artistic freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, shut its doors Thursday night with a defiant final show called "I Don't Take Part In War".

Asharq Al-Awsat

Life on the idyllic Swedish island where WW3 could start

Experts say that a Russian invasion of the Baltic states could begin on Gotland, a quiet 1,200-square-mile island

Financial Times

Turkey urged to detain Russian ship carrying Ukrainian grain

Ukraine suspects grain was loaded from a port seized by Russia

The Independent UK

Ukraine ‘could develop own nuclear weapons’ to stop Vladimir Putin's war

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Dr Paul Maddrell believes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could soon look to develop nuclear weapons in a bid to end the Russian invasion

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Macron’s new “political community”

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the three countries which have applied for membership in the European Union. There’s “On This Day”, “Ollia’s Happy Moment”, plenty of good music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the “Audio” arrow…

Radio France Internationale

FCDO ‘condemns exploitation’ as Britons charged with being mercenaries by Russia

Officials are in ‘constant contact’ with the government of Ukraine about the case.

The Independent UK

Russians Press Assault on Eastern Ukrainian City

Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday. Ukrainian fighters have spent weeks trying to defend the city and to keep it from falling to Russia, as…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russians press assault on eastern Ukrainian city

Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province

The Independent UK

Did Ukrainians really place anti-Russian stickers around Auschwitz? Nope.

Several pro-Russian accounts have been circulating photos that they say show how Ukrainians put anti-Russian stickers in different places in Auschwitz, the former death camp run by the Nazis. The stickers say: "Russia & Russians – The only gas you and your country deserve is Zyklon B", a reference to…

France 24

Russia’s Messages with Missiles Tell West to Back Off

The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. While much of the attritional war in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US to send Ukraine advanced surface-to-air missile systems

US announces $820m in new military aid to respond to Russia’s heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.

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Two Brits captured by Russian forces in Ukraine 'charged with being mercenaries'

A pro-Kremlin website said Mr Healy and Mr Hill would face the same mercenary charges as Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, two British military volunteers who have been given death sentences in Donetsk

Evening Standard

Zelensky condemns missile strikes near Odesa as ‘purposeful Russian terror’

At least 21 people died after missile attacks on residential areas near the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Friday

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian officials say Lysychansk remains in their hands – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Russia's messages with missiles tell West to back off

The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month

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Kurds Reveal Meetings with Syrian Govt to Protect Border against Turkey

A prominent Kurdish official revealed that meetings have been held between the autonomous Kurdish authority in the region east of the Euphrates River and representatives of the Syrian government to reach understandings on “protecting” the Syrian-Turkish border. The talks, which were sponsored by Russia, are the first amid a rise…

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Ukraine Leader Accuses Russia of 'Terror' in Missile Strike that Killed 21

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday accused Russia of engaging in state "terror" as he blamed Moscow for missile strikes on a southern resort town that left 21 dead and dozens wounded. Missiles slammed into an apartment building and a recreation center in the town of Sergiyvka about 80 kilometers…

The Independent UK

Two more Britons in Ukraine charged with being mercenaries by Russia

Both men were said to be refusing to co-operate with investigators.

France 24

Belarus claims to have shot down missiles fired from Ukraine

Heavy fighting rages in Lysychansk, a major city in eastern Ukraine at the heart of the battle for control of Donbas, while Belarus claims to have shot down missiles fired at its territory from Ukraine. Read our live blog below to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are…

Reuters

Hamburg senator warns of hot water rationing if gas shortage becomes acute

The German city of Hamburg will ration hot water for private households and limit the maximum heating temperature in the event of an acute gas shortage, its environment senator said as Germany braces for possible outages of Russian gas imports.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 129 of the invasion

Ukraine nuclear plant surveillance systems restored; at least 14 Russian arms companies ‘have not been sanctioned’; warning on war’s environmental cost

The Guardian - UK

Two more Britons captured in Ukraine could face death penalty

Russia has charged former soldier Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy, believed to have been doing humanitarian work, with fighting as mercenaries

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