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8 years ago, the U.S. and Russia played chicken with the ISS — will history repeat itself?

Russian and the USA's 2014 diplomatic spat over the ISS also provides a blueprint for understanding the current clash over the space station — and how this fresh fight may ultimately pan out.

Inverse

Russia 'launches second hypersonic missile' so powerful it's dubbed 'The Sizzler'

The Russian Defence Ministry said the missile was launched from ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea and directed towards Ukrainian military infrastructure

Daily Mirror

Liverpool student 'angry' at family's support for Russian invasion of Ukraine

Denis Skyrabin, 20, said: "It's absurd. It's just upsetting"

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Ukraine’s leader warns war will cost Russia ‘for generations’

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Russians to imagine ‘14,000 dead and tens of thousands maimed’.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine news – live: Putin ‘panicking’ in fear of revolution, as Russia admits deploying hypersonic missiles

Russia said it deployed the ‘dagger’ missiles for the first time during the invasion

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin's chilling threats as he's cheered on by Russians before 'disappearing'

Vladimir Putin was promoting the invasion of Ukraine when the broadcast, purported to be live, cut away from him to shots of the crowd.

Irish Mirror

Putin hails Russian invasion and ‘reunification’ of Crimea at huge pro-war stadium rally

Thousands of Russians crammed into Moscow’s Luzhniki World Cup stadium

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What happened in Crimea and is it in Russia or Ukraine as bloody war rages

Vladimir Putin has addressed a crowd of pro-war supporters in Moscow. The occasion marks eight years since the Russian president invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin cut off mid-sentence during huge rally in Moscow

Putin was holding the rally to mark the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea

Evening Standard

Ukraine– Russia conflict: Life echoes art for Ukraine’s Eurovision winner Jamala

Jamala, a Crimean Tatar, won Eurovision in 2016

The Independent UK

Life echoes art for Ukraine’s Eurovision winner who has had to flee country

Jamala, a Crimean Tatar, won Eurovision in 2016

The Independent UK

Three Rosneft staff balked at attending Crimea show amid war, sources say

Three employees of Russian oil giant Rosneft said they had resisted pressure to attend a celebratory show in a Moscow stadium on Friday to mark the eighth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

Reuters

Why Crimean Tatars are fearful as Russia invades Ukraine

As Vladimir Putin’s forces wage a brutal war against Ukraine, the Crimean Tatars living in Russian-occupied Crimea and on the Ukrainian mainland feel particularly threatened by their historic enemy’s latest invasion.

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Ukraine: Putin's vision of 'Russian Ukraine' misunderstands how borders came about

In Ukraine’s ongoing negotiations with Russia over its invasion, Vladimir Putin seems to be aiming at the very least to retain Crimea for Russia and ensure recognition for the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. These breakaway states claim much more territory than they control as of now, and to recognise…

ABC News

Ukraine's turbulent history since independence, from Soviet state to war with Russia

Ukraine has endured internal political upheaval and conflict with its neighbour in the decades since breaking away from Moscow. Here is a look at some of the main events in the country's political history since declaring independence.

Radio France Internationale

Ministry stresses that French arms sales to Russia are not in violation of EU sanctions

The French Defence Ministry denies that France violated sanctions imposed by the European Union by continuing to sell military equipment to Moscow after it annexed Crimea in 2014.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson claims West made 'terrible mistake' over Russia - so what's his own record?

Boris Johnson today said the West had made a 'terrible mistake' by letting Vladimir Putin 'get away' with the 2014 annexation of Crimea - leading to the Ukraine-Russia war. So here's what he's said before...

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The Independent UK

Ukraine: Russia ‘planning referendum’ to ‘legitimise’ control of southern Kherson region

Vote would have echoes of 2014 referendums in Crimea and in ‘breakaway republics’ in east

The Conversation

On the 3rd anniversary of the Christchurch attack, the Ukraine crisis asks the West to rethink its definitions of terrorism

As the Russian invasion unfolds, a deep vein of Ukrainian nationalism – already irritated by the annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the Donbas region – has been unleashed.

The Conversation

How Catherine the Great may have inspired Putin's Ukraine invasion

In his speech legitimizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin invoked 18th-century history.

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: How will we regard the Russia-Ukraine war in 20 years?

In light of the developing catastrophe in Ukraine, one wonders if President George W. Bush regrets not having taken a harder line against Russian President Vladimir Putin when he invaded Georgia in 2008. Or if President Barack Obama wishes he had tried harder to muster NATO and the rest of…

Al Jazeera

Ukraine latest updates: Civilian convoy leaves besieged Mariupol

Ukraine news from March 14: Attempts to evacuate civilians and deliver humanitarian aid has failed for several days.

Reason

"We Will Never Be Brothers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xKCU15xDP0 I came across this poem yesterday; it was written in 2014 by Ukrainian Anastasia Dmitruk, reacting to the Russian invasion of Crimea. As I understand it, it prompted many pro-Russian poems in response; regardless of what you think of their ideological merits, it seems to me a sign of…

Al Jazeera

Russia’s crackdown on Crimean Tatars foreshadows wider repression

Analysts say Russia’s repression of Crimean Tatars indicates likely tactics towards dissent in wider Ukraine.

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