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The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Putin officer defects and says ‘paranoid’ president lives in a bunker and is terrified of Covid

Gleb Karakulov said he has fled Russia over the war in Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Paranoid Vladimir Putin never uses phone and stays in his bunker, defector says

Federal Guard Service captain Gleb Karakulov, 35, revealed how Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin is paranoid about his personal security, and because he's so scared of being assassinated, he stays "in his bunker"

Daily Mirror

Suspect in attack that killed pro-Putin blogger to face court

Darya Trepova, 26, will appear at a court in Moscow

Evening Standard

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Ukraine unveils plan for recaptured Crimea – but West ‘reluctant’ to help

Ukraine unveiled on Sunday a 12-point plan outlining how it would reintegrate Crimea back into the country if it regained the territory militarily. Kyiv has repeatedly said that seizing the peninsula back from Russia is one of its key war aims. But Washington is tacitly sceptical.

France 24

Analysis: Russia's military production, state splurge ease sanctions pain

Rising military production and huge state spending are keeping Russia's industry buzzing along, an analysis of recent data shows, helping soften the economic impact of Western sanctions and allowing Moscow to plough on with its campaign in Ukraine.

Reuters

Only official civilian victim of UK’s bombing campaign against IS appears not to exist

Contradictions over missions in Syria and Iraq deepens concern over Britain’s ‘perfect’ precision war

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine's tech entrepreneurs fight war on a different front

Eugene Nayshtetik and his five co-workers shuttered their company developing medical and biotech startups to join the defense forces days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Within two months, their commanders agreed it would be more useful if they swapped their military gear for computers.

Reuters

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Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia

The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths

The Guardian - US

Three Syrian regime figures to face trial in France over 2013 arrests, killings

French criminal investigators have called for the trial of three officials of the regime of Syrian President Bachar al-Assad. The three are suspected of involvement in the 2013 detention and subsequent deaths of two Franco-Syrian citizens, Mazzan Dabbagh and his son Patrick.

Radio France Internationale

IRGC Retracts Statements Confirming Death of Leader Kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps retracted its confirmation of the killing of the military attaché, Ahmad Motevaselian, who disappeared in Beirut 41 years ago. IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said they still have no reliable information regarding the condition and fate of Motevaselian and his companions, who were kidnapped in northern…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Officials: US providing Ukraine $2.6 billion in military aid

Officials say the U.S. will send Ukraine about $500 million in ammunition and equipment and will spend more than $2 billion to buy an array of munitions, radar and other weapons in the future

The Independent UK

Suspect in attack that killed military blogger to face court

A woman suspected of involvement in a bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger is set to face a Moscow court that will set terms for her pre-trial detention

The Independent UK

St Petersburg 'bomber' smiles on CCTV before she's caught as husband says she was framed

Daria Trepova's husband has said she had been framed and that he is "completely sure" that she would never have been able to do something like that in Russia on her own

Daily Mirror

Baghdad, Erbil Set to Restart Northern Oil Exports Tuesday

Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reached a final deal to restart northern oil exports to be announced Tuesday, official sources told Reuters. A formal request has been sent to Türkiye to restart oil exports through an Iraq-Türkiye pipeline and "in the next few hours pumping…

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Russian Children’s Commissioner Rejects ICC War Crime Allegations as False

Russia's commissioner for children's rights, who was accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) alongside President Vladimir Putin of war crimes in Ukraine, said on Tuesday that the ICC's allegations were false and unclear. The Hague-based ICC on March 17 issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian…

Reuters

Russian children's commissioner rejects ICC war crime allegations as false

Russia's commissioner for children's rights on Tuesday dismissed International Criminal Court (ICC) allegations that she was responsible for unlawfully deporting children from Ukraine as false.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Azerbaijan Arrests 4 Over Attempted Assassination of Anti-Iran Lawmaker

Azerbaijan arrested four people in connection with the attempted assassination of an anti-Iran lawmaker, who was shot and wounded last week, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. Representative Fazil Mustafa, who has been highly critical of Iran, was receiving treatment in a hospital after being shot in the attack. Mustafa's assistant,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Moscow Consultations: Russia, Syria Disagree on Turkish Deployment

Russia, Türkiye, Syria and Iran kicked off in Moscow on Monday negotiations aimed at overcoming obstacles that are hindering the normalization of relations between Ankara and Damascus. The deputy foreign ministers of the four countries held talks ahead of a potential meeting for their foreign ministers, said a source from…

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Russia Rejects US Claims its UN Council Presidency is a Joke

Russia’s UN ambassador on Monday dismissed US and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending the principles of the UN Charter, which Moscow is widely accused…

The Guardian - UK

Tank tactics: how might Ukraine use its influx of western armour?

Experts say weaponry will give Kyiv a psychological edge against Russia but is not enough for a ‘big punch’

Reuters

Ukraine battles on in Bakhmut as Finland joins NATO

Fighting raged in and around Bakhmut as Ukraine mocked Russian claims to have captured the administrative centre of the eastern Ukrainian city, saying Russian forces had raised a victory flag over "some kind of toilet".

ABC News

Russia releases video of suspect in cafe killing of Vladlen Tatarsky, blames Ukraine for attack

Russia's Investigative Committee releases footage of Darya Trepova, a woman suspected of involvement in a St Petersburg cafe blast which killed prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.

Al Jazeera

Local media report two killed in Israeli air attack on Damascus

Syrian state media says Tuesday’s attack was the fourth of its kind in a week as Israel targets Iran-backed groups.

The New Daily

Ukraine mocks Russian claim to have taken Bakhmut

Russia has raised a flag over "some kind of toilet", Kyiv says, rubbishing claims it has captured eastern Bakhmut amid one of the conflict's bloodiest battles.

The New Daily

Russia accuses Ukraine of blowing up war blogger as woman arrested

Russia has accused Ukraine of organising the murder of a prominent war blogger in a St Petersburg cafe and arrested a young Russian woman.

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