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Telegram channel General SVR - allegedly run by an ex-intel officer - claims Vladimir Putin is prepared to hand over power to an aide amid surgery rumours

Russian forces battled on Wednesday for control of the last stronghold in Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said, and the European Union proposed tough new sanctions against Moscow including a phased oil embargo.

Russian bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers have been publishing reports from the city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine. Embedded in Russian military units, they film videos close to the action, capturing the intense fighting that has been raging in the port city for weeks. On Telegram, they publish…

Following Russia’s invasion and media crackdown, independent outlet DOXA – like others – had to reinvent itself.

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

British defence chiefs said Russia has not succeeded in ‘translating numerical strength into decisive advantage’

A senior U.S. official is warning that Russia plans to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine later this month

LVIV, Ukraine — As battered, sun-starved Ukrainians trickled out from the ruins of the port city of Mariupol, Russian forces Monday pressed new bombing runs in the east and south of the country and U.S. officials warned Moscow will attempt to annex larger chunks of territory it occupies.

The ex-president’s Twitter clone is a growing echo chamber for the right-wing media ecosystem

Unconfirmed reports are surfacing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to undergo cancer surgery and will temporarily transfer his authority to Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian federal police’s Security Council, while he is undergoing the medical procedure.

LVIV, Ukraine — Fresh from an unannounced visit to Kyiv, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Monday with the president of Poland, thanking him and his country for taking in the lion’s share of Ukrainians who have fled their country since the war there began.