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Putin's enemy fears for his life after receiving bullet and death threat in post

Former FSB spy Boris Karpichkov, who received a sinister death threat, believes neither the police nor MI5 can protect him, claiming they have done little to protect him when similar threats arrived

Daily Mirror

With his luxury watch and murky Soviet past, Patriarch Kirill is Putin's spiritual leader and power broker

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church wields enormous influence over more than 100 million believers and is a powerful ally to President Vladimir Putin — nowhere moreso than in the ideological battle for Ukraine.

ABC News

US labels Russia’s Wagner Group a criminal organization in new bid to blunt its power

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration designated Russia’s Wagner Group a transnational criminal organization in a new effort to blunt the mercenary company’s powerful role on the battlefield in Ukraine and around the world.

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Is this a turning point in Ukraine?

With a series of high-level meetings in Europe, U.S. sends a signal to Putin: We think Ukraine can win this year

Salon

The Stats Guy: How Australian coal can help Germany beat its energy crisis

In the very West of Germany lies Luetzerath. It’s an obscure and tiny settlement. Nobody ever cared about it – until recently that is.

The New Daily

Russian Wagner Group using ‘North Korea for munitions supplies,’ White House says

North Korea has repeatedly denied assisting Russia

Evening Standard

Trudy Rubin: Putin must be prevented from enabling the prison death of ill opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.

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Number of Russians killed in Ukraine hit an enormous 188,000, says US intelligence

US intelligence reportedly claims an estimated 188,000 Russians have been killed or injured in Ukraine on top of heavy tank losses, with Vladimir Putin's war having started nearly a year ago

Daily Mirror

‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book

Fight of His Life author on Kamala Harris’s struggles and growth, Afghanistan, a strong second year … and if Biden will run again

The Guardian - US

Kremlin stays silent on missile systems seen on Moscow rooftops

Images on social media appear to show Pantsir-S1 mobile anti-aircraft systems installed in locations around Moscow.

Al Jazeera

US to designate Wagner mercenary force a crime organisation

The Wagner Group has an estimated 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of them drawn from Russian prisons.

Al Jazeera

$NATO alliance still strong on Ukraine but fractures are emerging$

NATO alliance still strong on Ukraine but fractures are emerging

WASHINGTON: The billions of United States dollars in new arms for Ukraine announced this month — including British tanks, American fighting vehicles, and howitzers from Denmark and Sweden — are testament to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies after nearly a year…

Bangkok Post

In Chicago, Secretary of State Blinken says Putin has already lost what he wanted in Ukraine

CHICAGO — Making a brief visit to Chicago on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said while Ukrainians have suffered tremendously, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has inflicted “extraordinary damage” on his own citizens and military and that U.S.-led sanctions will take a dramatic toll on Russia’s…

Chicago Tribune

'Germany must realise Putin cannot be allowed to win and Ukraine allowed to fall'

If President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian forces are to drive the Russian military from their country they need their allies to supply more equipment and munitions

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Bangkok Post

A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

Axios

U.S. to designate Russia's Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization

It comes in part in response to North Korean weapon shipments to the mercenary group, the White House said.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine, rehearsed in Chechnya

Moscow’s invasion has echoes of the tactics it employed in conflicts in the North Caucasus, experts and survivors say.

Evening Standard

Germany under growing pressure to send tanks to Ukraine

It’s amazing what the Germans can do when they put their mind to it. Prior to February 2022, the country was heavily reliant on Russian gas to heat its homes and power the mighty industries that make it the fourth-largest economy in the world. Before the war, more than half…

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Los Angeles Times

Fighter jets, NATO, Congress and Ukraine: Complex issues roil US-Turkey relations

WASHINGTON — The United States is locked in a delicate dance with Turkey, one of its most problematic allies, that involves fighter jets, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Congress and, ultimately, the war in Ukraine.

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Ukraine needs western unity – and that means tanks

War is contingent on many things. Outcomes rest on a multiplicity of factors, decisions and inputs. Some are out of anyone’s control while others, such as arms supplies from allies, are not.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's body double suffering from chronic kidney disease, wild claims suggest

Russians believe that Vladimir Putin has an army of body doubles that have stood in for him at key public appearances, including when he was driving over the Crimea Bridge in December last year, and at the funeral of a regional director

The Independent UK

What dates are the DWP cost of living payments in 2023?

Millions of households on low incomes will receive fresh cost of living support worth up to £1,350

Reuters

Russia says relations with U.S. at an all-time low

Russia said on Friday that relations with the United States were at an all-time low, dismissing the idea the two sides could turn things around halfway through U.S. President Joe Biden's term in office.

The Independent UK

Germany has wavered on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Why does it matter?

Nato allies – including Poland and the Baltic nations who fear the spread of Russian aggression – have been pressuring Germany to allow tanks to be sent to Ukraine to defend itself

Evening Standard

Wagner Group: Putin’s ‘private army’ has up to 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

Military sources say the group is vying with the Russian regular army for supremacy in Putin’s chain of command

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