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The Times of London
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Russians flee abroad during war in fear of arrest or conscription
There are no bombed-out buildings in Moscow or war-ravaged landscapes. Air raid sirens do not wail at all hours of the day and night, sending people rushing for bomb shelters.While Moscow may be far very from the battlefields of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s war has also altered the rhythms of life in Russia’s capital city, perhaps irrevocably. → Read More
Putin faces ‘quiet rebellion’ in Kremlin over Ukraine war failures
Last February, as President Putin announced his invasion of Ukraine with a chilling televised speech, the Kremlin was so confident of success that the first wave of Russian troops were ordered to pack special uniforms for a victory parade in Kyiv. It did not take long for Putin’s plans to unravel.Al → Read More
Who attacked the Nord Stream pipelines?
The crime scene lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, in the chilly waters off the Danish island of Bornholm, close to Sweden’s southern coastline. It was here, → Read More
Defeat in Ukraine means nuclear war, warns Russia
President Zelensky of Ukraine has reiterated his determination to reclaim the Crimean peninsula as well as other territory occupied by Russia, as he called on Western allies to provide more modern tanks and weapons.“Our objective is to liberate all of our territories,” Zelensky, 44, told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, by video. “Crimea is our land, our territory, our sea, and… → Read More
Power plant workers battling to keep Ukraine’s lights on
Arriving at a power station in central Ukraine, the air raid sirens begin to wail with an incessant, high-pitched sound. “Down here,” an employee says, beckoning to a bomb shelter built during the Cold War. Below ground, about two dozen technicians and engineers sit on wooden benches, hoping that Ru → Read More
Fight to save boy’s leg as Russia launches new blitz on Kherson
The clocks had just struck midnight in Kherson when blasts echoed through its deserted streets, as the Russian and Ukrainian armies saw in the new year with a → Read More
George Orwell’s 1984 is Russian bestseller in year of new extremes for Kremlin propaganda
George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarian terror 1984 was the bestselling fiction title this year in Russia. The novel, published in 1949, takes place in a → Read More
Russia moves Ukrainian Kherson prisoners to penal camps
President Putin’s troops have transported thousands of Ukrainian convicts to penal facilities in Russia.About 2,500 inmates, including those convicted of murder → Read More
Kyiv faces ‘worst winter since Second World War’, mayor warns
The Ukrainian capital faces its “worst winter since the Second World War”, the mayor of Kyiv has warned, as President Zelensky announced the creation of 4,000 c → Read More
Why Putin fears fresh humiliation in Kherson
Just weeks ago, as Ukrainian forces pushed back President Putin’s invading army, refugees from the city of Kherson were confident that their homes would soon be → Read More
Putin mocks Truss and tells of ‘dangerous’ decade ahead
President Putin has accused the West of playing “a dangerous, dirty and bloody” game of geopolitics over Ukraine while warning that the world faces the biggest → Read More
Russian universities ordered to teach anti-western ideology
Russian university students will be forced to take ideology lessons that parrot Kremlin propaganda.The compulsory course will be called the “foundations of Russ → Read More
Desperate Putin portrays Ukraine and the West as ‘Satanic’
From imperialists to evil capitalists, Kremlin propaganda has had many names over the decades for western countries. Now with the Russian army on the run in Ukr → Read More
Russia delivers fresh carnage across Ukraine in missile blitz
President Zelensky of Ukraine has called on the West to take “resolute action” against Russia after it launched the biggest cruise missile strike on Kyiv since → Read More
Why is Crimea so important to Russia and Putin? A simple guide
President Putin ordered Russian troops to seize Crimea from Ukraine eight years ago, shortly after protesters in Kyiv toppled the country’s pro-Moscow leader.The Kremlin transferred the Black Sea peninsula, where Joseph Stalin once had a holiday home, from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both countr → Read More
Putin at 70: isolated, irrational and fearing for his health
There was a time when Vladimir Putin would have celebrated his birthday by heading into the wilderness of the Siberian taiga with an old comrade, Sergei Shoigu, → Read More
‘Tanks rule here. Putin’s draftees will be cannon fodder’
A blood-stained mattress lay in the dank basement of a bombed-out hotel where Russian troops were based until Ukraine’s soldiers forced them out last month. Abandoned army rations and sleeping bags indicated a rapid departure.Not long ago, Sviati Hory [Holy Mountains] National Park was a popular tou → Read More
Men scramble to flee Russia rather than fight in Ukraine
From Moscow to deepest Siberia, Russian men of fighting age are scrambling to flee the country after President Putin announced that military reservists would be → Read More
Putin issues nuclear threat and warns the West: ‘I’m not bluffing’
President Putin warned today that Russia would use nuclear weapons to defend its territory and announced the partial mobilisation of its reserve forces in an es → Read More
Russia signals it will annex swathes of Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine looks set for a dangerous new escalation after Russia signalled that it would annex swathes of the war-torn country, a move that could s → Read More