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A Russian pilot tells passengers that he believes “the war in Ukraine is a crime,” adding “I think each sensible citizens will agree with me and will do everything to make it stop.” Rare to see public opposition to the war given the consequences such a statement will have

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Kyiv children’s hospital strike

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First clips coming out of Russia this morning of draftees saying bye to their families. This from a small town in Yakutsk. Credits @taygainfo

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Video sent by a friend at the anti-mobilisation protest in Makhachkala, Dagestan. It’s very rare in Russia to see demonstrators tussle with police like this

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Centre of Kherson right now

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Kremlin’s political decision not to declare war on Ukraine is having consequences on the battlefield as some Russian soldiers refuse to fight knowing they won't be prosecuted. "We aren’t officially in a state of war, so they could not force me to go”

‘They were furious’: the Russian soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine

Troops are saying no to officers, knowing that punishment is light while Russia is not technically at war

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For days after the Moskva cruiser sank, Yulia Tsyvova had been desperately looking for information about her son. Today she received the call from the Russian defence ministry. Andrei was dead. “He was only 19, he was a conscript." With @Andrew__Roth

‘We need answers’: relatives seek Moskva warship’s missing crew

As Russia suppresses information about its sinking, some share details of what they have found out

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11 months

Huge scoop from my colleagues. A leading western journalist who has long been considered one of Germany’s top independent experts on Russia received at least €600,000 in undisclosed offshore payments from companies linked to an oligarch close to Putin

Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals

Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president

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The war will come as a shock to not just to the average Russian but also to the elites. Just on Monday, after Putin recognised the republics, Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch close to Putin wrote on his telegram channel “That’s it, war has been averted.” He has since deleted the post

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Spoke to some of the many men and women fleeing Russia after Putin announced the first mobilisation since the second world war. “I am simply not letting Putin turn me into a killer in a war that I want no part in.”

‘I will cross the border tonight’: Russians flee after news of draft

Border guards cite an ‘exceptional’ number of Russians leaving after ‘partial mobilisation’ announcement

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Crowds shout “Navalny” as the hears carrying Navalny’s body arrives to the church

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Sasha Skochilenko, 33, a Russian artist who replaced supermarket price tags with anti-war messages has been sentenced to 7 years in jail. "I'm not afraid, and maybe that's precisely why my government is so afraid of me," Sasha said in her last statement in court

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The man awarded in this clip is called Mikhail Turkanov, aka Pitbull. A prominent Neo-Nazi and MMA fighter.

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Video of Deputy Chief of the GRU Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev presenting awards to the Espanola unit.

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Outside the children’s hospital in Kyiv

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EVAN IS FREE!!! Thank you to everyone who made this happen, who supported Evan and his family over the last 491 days. We have seen the best of humanity in action. My heart is so full. Cant wait to hug you Vania ♥️

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It’s hard to comprehend it, but our friend Evan has now spent six months in a cramped cell in Moscow for doing his job as a journalist. This is the last picture I took with Evan, just weeks before his illegal arrest. I can’t wait to take a new one. #FreeEvan

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SCOOP by Dutch NRC. The paper reports that two GRU spies got arrested in The Hague on their way to the biochemical Spiez lab in Switzerland. They supposedly had equipment to break into the lab. Spiez investigates both Assad’s chemical attacks and Skripal

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Twee Russische spionnen op weg naar Zwitsers gifgaslab gepakt in Den Haag via @nrc

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Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, Paul Whelan. Free!

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8 months

A court in Moscow today upheld the extension of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's arrest. Evan will soon have spent one year in the notorious Lefortovo jail. Days after Alexei Navalny's death, I worry more than ever about our friend Evan

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Wow. Now Prigozhin says that the council of Wagner commanders have decided to deal with the military leadership of Russia adding that he will destroy everyone who appears n his way. "I ask everyone to stay calm at home, do not go outside."

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The drama continues. Prigozhin publishes a video which he claims shows the aftermath of a rocket attack by the Russian ministry of defence on a Wagner camp. “Many of our guys died…We will make a decision how to respond to this evil. The next move is ours”

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Dutch intelligence agencies say that they have identified a Russian GRU agent who tried to intern at the ICC under a false Brazilian identity. They have also released his rather touching four-page cover letter

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My friend and thoroughly professional journalist @evangershkovich has been arrested by the FSB on obviously bogus espionage charges. Journalism is not a crime. Evan should be released immediately

Russia Arrests WSJ Journalist on Spying Allegations

Updated with details of arrest. Russia on Thursday arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges in a major escalation of the Kremlin’s wartime crackdown on independent...

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A long line has formed before the entry to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows where Navalny’s memorial service will take place in just under two hours

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People start to gather near the church where Navalny’s funeral service will take place

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It’s incredibly difficult and infuriating to watch this clip of our brave friend Evan in a glass cage being sentenced to 16 years in jail simply for doing his job as a journalist

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Navalny's last message on Valentine's Day to his wife Yulia: "Baby, it's just like the song says: cities, airfield lights, blue snowstorms and thousands of kilometres between us. But I feel that you are with me every second, and I love you more and more"

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“I am not sure we will ever be able to sit at the same table again. I think they have been zombified by state propaganda, and they truly see me as an enemy of the state. I have given up.”

‘My mother says I am betraying Russia’: Putin’s invasion divides the generations

Families torn apart as younger Russians opposing war in Ukraine fall out with older relatives reliant on diet of state propaganda

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Lavrov at his hotel in Bali. Says reports about his health are a "political game"

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Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said this was a "fake" and that she read the news alongside Lavrov

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Last year, we celebrated NYE together in Berlin. Today Evan, our dear friend and colleague will spend New Year’s in a tiny cell in Moscow. We miss him everyday. Evan should be released immediately

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Evan Gershkovich, our dear friend falsely accused by Russia of spying, had his pre-trial detention extended by three months today. Friday will mark the first anniversary of Evan's arrest which he has spent in the notorious Lefortovo jail. It's sickening. Free Evan

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For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him

My friend Evan Gershkovich is no spy. Just a brave reporter jailed in Moscow | Pjotr Sauer

The US journalist arrested last week is the first to be accused of espionage in Russia since the cold war

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3 years

Footage sent by a friend. Russian authorities are preparing for the anti-war protest that will soon begin

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Citing two sources, @ForbesRussia says Putin's pre-recorded address will be aired when the country's "Far East wakes up." Kremlin pool journalist Dmitry Smirnov says the address will be at 8am Moscow time

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From the people on the streets in Moscow, to the country’s cultural and sporting elites, everyone I talked to expressed their anger and disbelief about Russia’s invasion. For Ukrainians, the apparent public opposition to the war however will come too late

Thousands join anti-war protests in Russia after Ukraine invasion

Police make more than 1,700 arrests as protesters take to the streets in cities across countryRussia-Ukraine crisis: live updates

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Navalny’s team publish a photograph of the memorial service. “A picture that should have never existed,” a tearful Leonid Volkov says live on air

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Russia has just sentenced an innocent man to 16 years in a high security prison. I have no words to describe this farce. Let’s get Evan out of there

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First footage of the rescued Moskva crew in Sevastopol. No information yet regarding casualties

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Letter from the @McKinsey office in Moscow forbidding its employees from attending today's rally and supporting it on social media

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3 years

Some personal news! Just over a month ago, I joined The Guardian as a Russia affairs correspondent. I am very thrilled to be working with such a stellar team covering Russia, Ukraine and the broader region.

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Exchange between a Kommersant journo and a pensioner in Mariupol “And what do you say about us in Russia? “They say on TV that our military freed you” “Freed us? And what did you free us from? From our Philharmonic? From our city? Well thank you”

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Trots

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Ongelooflijk veel respect voor @derksauer om zo emotie te tonen tijdens @Buitenhoftv . Van zijn moed kunnen wij allemaal wat leren.

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The drama continues. Prigozhin publishes a video which he claims shows the aftermath of a rocket attack by the Russian ministry of defence on a Wagner camp. “Many of our guys died…We will make a decision how to respond to this evil. The next move is ours”

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Russian appointed officials in occupied Mariupol remove a Holodomor monument. Some “official” says Ukraine didn’t actually suffer that much compared to Russia and Kazakhstan. Another lady says it is better not to dwell too much on the past

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Spoke to three family members of a captured Russian sniper. They said they were shocked to find out about his involvement in the invasion of Ukraine “Young boys are thrown like cannon fodder, and most importantly for what?! For palaces in Gelendzhik?”

‘I had no idea he was there’: families’ shock at video of captured Russian soldiers

Telegram channel Find Your Own identifies PoWs – much to the horror of families who did not know they were part of invasion

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My best friend Evan is on the cover of Time magazine. Evan is a top-notch journalist who always wanted to tell the story, instead of becoming it. But the Russian authorities decided otherwise when they arrested him on false charges almost a year (!) ago. It's time to get him out

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Inside the fight to free @wsj reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russia

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Happy 32nd birthday to our dear friend and colleague Evan Gershkovich, who has now spent nearly 7 months in a Msocow prison. Evan, we miss you #FreeEvan

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Clear panic among Russian officials. The governor of Sevastopol writes: “Like many of you now, I am not sleeping, updating the news feed. Any conflict is bad. A conflict of this level... is extemeley bad"

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The children sat in stunned silence, their fragile bodies still tethered to medical drips outside the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv... A woman rushed past, cradling an infant covered with blood. Some of the terrible scenes from today's Ru strike

‘No words for this’: horror over Russian bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital

Witnesses express shock and revulsion after deadly missile strike on Ukraine’s largest paediatric clinic

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“Evan, stay strong!” a fellow journalist tells him

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My story on Buryatia, where on Monday the funeral of four young soldiers killed in Ukraine took place. While Russia has disclosed little information about its losses, reports indicate that many of the soldiers dying come from poor republics like Buryatia

Coffins in Buryatia: Ukraine invasion takes toll on Russia’s remote regions

A lot of the soldiers dying in Putin’s war are from poorer ‘ethnic minority’ republics, says Russian military expert

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Russian rapper Oxxxymiron will organise an anti-war concert in Istanbul next week as part of a movement he called “Russians Against War.” Istanbul is currently full of Russians who left the country after the invasion. All proceeds will go to charity

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Mum 30 years ago

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Spent a day with Svetlana Golub, the head of the Soldiers’ Mothers Committee and watched Svetlana take dozens of phone calls from crying family members of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Some said their children did not want to be part of the war

‘Just a sea of tears’: the group helping anxious mothers of Russian soldiers

An independent committee is tracing the fate of sons deployed in Ukraine amid reports of heavy casualties and low morale

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Evan in court

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There was already lost of anger on Pro-war z telegrams when I wrote this two days ago, now it has reached another level I haven’t seen before

‘We have already lost’: far-right Russian bloggers slam military failures

Military pro-war bloggers with frontline contacts offer rare insight into Russia’s performance on ground

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"I don’t think I could shoot him or that he could shoot me. Who could kill his own father? But I would like to see him witness our victory and his world crumble.” My story on Artur, a Ukrainian soldier whose father is fighting for the other side

‘He joined the enemy’: a Ukraine soldier on fighting his father on Russian side

Artur is in touch by text with father Oleg, a colonel in pro-Moscow forces, and is trying hard not to let hate consume him

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The crowd is now making its way to the Borisovskoe cemetery

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Igor Denisov, the former captain of Russia’s football team has spoken out against the war. “These events are catastrophic. It’s horrific. I am not sure if I will be jailed or killed for this, but I am saying it as it is”

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Evan unimpressed by the farce that Russia calls his trial. Unbreakable. It is time to get him out already

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Today marks 400 days since Evan was jailed for doing his job, another grim milestone that we hoped would never come. Evan has missed out on so much, isolated from the world that he loves and covered so well. There is a big hole in our hearts that won’t be filled until he is free

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NEW: We talked to two friends of Channel 1 producer Marina Ovsyannikova. On Sunday morning, Ovsyannikova told one of two exactly how and when she would stage her dramatic protest. "Her anger has been building up...She is so brave," the friend said

‘Her anger had been building’: Russian TV protester told friend of plan

Marina Ovsyannikova expressed deep unease over war in Ukraine before live protest in Channel One news studio

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Talked to a defiant Marina Ovsyannikova today. “I don’t regret one bit what I did, I will not take a single word back. These are my views.” She was rushing to meet her lawyer and said she was “fearful for my safety”

Russian TV producer ‘extremely concerned’ for safety after protest live on air

Marina Ovsyannikova says she stands by her actions in first interview since live TV intervention

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Free Evan!

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Today marks 3 weeks of wrongful detention by Russia of our dear friend Evan. Journalism is not a crime. #IStandWithEvan

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Today marks four weeks since our dear friend Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia. We continue to stand with Evan and his family in seeking his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan

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A Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam that has cut ties with the Moscow patriarchate over the invasion of Ukraine. “We as the clergy of St. Nicholas parish in Amsterdam have expressed our shock at the invasion of Ukraine by the armed forces of Russia”

Russian Orthodox church in Amsterdam announces split with Moscow

Clergy takes ‘difficult decision’ to cut ties with the Moscow patriarchate over the invasion of Ukraine

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It has been two full weeks since Evan Gershkovich was arrested and taken to Moscow’s Lefortovo jail. Two weeks too long. Journalism is not a crime and our dear friend must be released immediately #FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan

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The total number of dead, wounded and missing remains a state secret. Tsyvov’s death, which has not been previously reported, is just the second confirmed from the warship. Another three families have gone public saying they cannot find their sons

‘We need answers’: relatives seek Moskva warship’s missing crew

As Russia suppresses information about its sinking, some share details of what they have found out

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No surprises here...A court in Moscow rejected an appeal against the extended detention of our dear friend and colleague Evan Gershkovich. He will remain in jail at least until 30 August. If you would like to write him a letter, please send it to FreeGershkovich @gmail .com

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Talked to English language teacher Irina Gen, who faces a long-term prison sentence for “discrediting” the Russian army. after her students recorded her criticising the war. “I hoped to break through the propaganda that is being fed to this country.”

Russian teacher ‘shocked’ as she faces jail over anti-war speech pupils taped

Fears of ‘Stalinisation’ of society after Irina Gen was called in by spy agency and prosecuted over recorded message

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A Google search spike for the word “emigration” in Russia following the invasion

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Our friend Evan will spend the next two months in a Moscow jail. We would love for him to know how much he is supported. If you would like to write him a letter, please send it to the email below and we will translate it into Russian as required by law FreeGershkovich @gmail .com

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While Shoigu said mobilised soldiers will receive weeks of training, local enlistment offices already state that they will send some men without the training course. Russia is in a hurry

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16/ This all adds up to a likely gradual call-up and deployment of limited numbers of reservists over the coming months that will not change the battlefield dynamics this year.

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We might not see widespread arrest today but be sure that the FSB will be knocking on doors in the coming days and weeks

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Risking criminal prosecution under what I’m sure are multiple speech felonies under Russian law, Navalny’s mourners chant, “Putin is a murderer!”

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“Putin is a very destructive personality, he will play the different factions off each other and see what the best outcome will be,” said a former defence ministry official who has worked with Shoigu and Prigozhin. Deep dive with @Andrew__Roth

‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters

Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu

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Russia doing a stellar job at making sure Sweden joins NATO

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It is unacceptable of Russia to violate Swedish airspace. Swedish territorial integrity should always be respected.

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It’s been 100 days since my friend WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich was wrongly detained in Russia. Together with journalists from @volkskrant @parool @trouw , as well as @MoscowTimes & @tvrain , I stand with Evan and his family. #IStandWithEvan

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Something big happening on the Crimean bridge. Officials announced that traffic over the bridge has been stopped

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Powerful speech by Zelenskiy addressing Russians “If authorities don’t want to sit down with us to discuss peace, maybe they will sit down you”

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Maxar satellite images now being used to show the extent of the Russian exodus probably best illustrates how this war is going for the Kremlin

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NEW: Russians waiting at the border with Georgia in long lines of trucks and cars after Putin’s mobilization order, per a Sept 25 image. More than 115,000 Russians have fled into Georgia since mobilization order last week. Lines formed more than 16km from border 📸: @Maxar

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A Moscow court has extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on bogus espionage charges at the end of March. It has been 21 weeks since Evan was detained for doing his job. Evan should be released immediately! #IStandWithEvan

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Spoiler alert, the statements did not decide the fate of the country

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Peskov in announcing Putin’s statements said they will “decide the fate of the country”

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Lots of gloomy reports on pro-war telegram channels that Russian troops are getting heavily shelled as they cross the Dnipro river

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First images of Ukrainian flags raised in the centre of Kherson. According to local telegram channels, this is the work of the partisans

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Video of the alleged Kremlin drone attack

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All three were prepared to die in jail for their relentless criticism of the war.

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@UmlandAndreas

2 months

A bizarre press conference in Bonn - Russia's war as a secondary topic - odd call for fewer Western sanctions - claim ordinary Russians are anti-war - positive reference to Solzhenitsyn Conclusion: A wasted Russian chance to create a common anti-Putin front with the Ukrainians.

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They didn’t tell me anything else, no information on when the funeral would be,” said Yulia Tsyvova, who wept as she spoke by telephone. “I am sure he isn’t the only one who died.”

‘We need answers’: relatives seek Moskva warship’s missing crew

As Russia suppresses information about its sinking, some share details of what they have found out

www.theguardian.com

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Ges-2, the brand new 54,400 square meter contemporary art center in Moscow funded by oligarch Leonid Mikehlson is still open but all the art is gone while some of the Russian artists exhibited left the country. When Putin visited the center he reportedly didn’t like what he saw

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It has been one week since @WSJ ’s @evangershkovich was detained in Russia. He was doing journalism, the thing he loves, when the FSB arrested him. #FreeEvan

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Alexander Demidenko, a 61-year-old Russian volunteer who helped Ukrainian citizens in Russia return to Ukraine has died in jail, his friend said. Journalists previously published photos displaying signs of torture on Demidenko's body

Volunteer who helped hundreds of Ukrainians return home from Russia arrested in Belgorod region —...

Alexander Demidenko, a Russian man who works as a volunteer to help Ukrainian citizens in Russia return to Ukraine, has been arrested in Russia’s Belgorod region.

meduza.io

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Prigozhin speaks out against Putin for the first time, and dismisses Putin's speech which called him a traitor "The president is deeply wrong...No one is going to turn themselves in at the request of the President...We don't want the country to continue to live in lies"

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“I saw men being ripped apart in front of me, most of our unit is gone, destroyed.” Aleksei Agafonov, a newly mobilised Russian soldier described to the Guardian how his unit of ill-prepared conscripts was wiped out during a recent Ukrainian attack

‘We were completely exposed’: Russian conscripts say hundreds killed in attack

Survivor tells of being abandoned to attack near Makiivka, as anger grows in Russia over death toll from war

www.theguardian.com

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Chelsea player Hakim Ziyech at a party in Moscow organised by the Winline betting firm. Standing alongside Quincy Promes who is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking

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8 months

Last week in Dubai, two elite US police squads competed in a prized tournament alongside Kadyrov's notorious police unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine. Western participation has raised alarm among security experts and human fights activist. Latest:

‘A gift to Moscow’: dismay as NYPD takes part in UAE Swat games with Chechnya and Belarus

Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious Chechen unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Significant here that he uses the word “war.” A number of Russian outlets have been shut down for describing the Russian war as “war” and “invasion”

Bloomberg

@business

3 years

BREAKING: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is selling Chelsea Football Club and will use the proceeds to benefit "all victims of the war in Ukraine"

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Muscovites are gathering to commemorate and lay flowers in memory of murdered anti-war liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, An officer in the security forces of Chechnya leader Kadyrov, who yesterday said his forces will enter Ukraine, was sentenced to 20 years for the murder

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3 years

Dit kan toch niet doorgaan?!

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1 year

“I want to say that I am not losing hope,” Evan wrote in a brief, two-page note that his family in Philadelphia received on Friday. “I read. I exercise. And I am trying to write. Maybe, finally, I am going to write something good.”

Jailed WSJ Reporter in Letter Home Says He Is ‘Not Losing Hope’

The handwritten letter in Russian is the first direct communication Evan Gershkovich has had with his family.

www.wsj.com

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Russian independent media reporting that a riot broke out inside one of Moscow’s prisons. Convicts are one of Prigozhin’s main power bases

Avtozak LIVE

⚡️⚡️Источник SOTA подтверждает информацию о бунте в СИЗО №5 «Водник»

t.me

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I spoke to four prisoners across different penal colonies in Russia about Prigozhin's helicopter visits and his effort to recruit thousands of prisoners to fight in Ukraine. “Either I die in this shithole or I die there, it doesn’t matter that much."

‘We thieves and killers are now fighting Russia’s war’: how Moscow recruits from its prisons

Inmates describe visits by Yevgeny Prigozhin, reported head of the Wagner group, who is said to offer pardons for those who enlist

www.theguardian.com

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