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EU closes loophole allowing multimillion-euro arms sales to Russia

The European Union has closed a loophole that allowed EU governments to export weapons worth tens of millions of euros to Russia last year alone despite an embargo which took effect in 2014 after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region.

Reuters

Russia Closes in on Last Holdout in Ukrainian Port, Prepares for New Offensive

More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the port of Mariupol, Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday, signalling that it had moved closer to capturing the ruined city, its main strategic target in eastern Ukraine. Taking the Azovstal industrial district, where the marines have been holed up, would give…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hit Or Missile: Russia Claims To Shoot Down Drone

The Russian MoD said the strike took place off the Crimean coast and was carried out by servicemen of the Black Sea Fleet.

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Who is the general leading Russia’s new war strategy in Ukraine?

Dubbed the ‘butcher’ of Aleppo and Grozny, Aleksandr Dvornikov, was honoured with a Hero of Russia medal in 2016.

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Senate Republicans call on Biden administration to share more intelligence in Donbas, Crimea

Their demand comes after the Pentagon acknowledged sharing intel for eastern Ukraine.

Axios

British Defense Ministry Says Russia Targeting Civilians

Britain's defense ministry said on Saturday that Russian forces were targeting civilians, a day after a missile attack on a train station crowded with women, children and the elderly killed at least 52 people, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia was focusing its offensive, which included cruise missiles launched by its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Understanding Vladimir Putin, the man who fooled the world

The Russian president has always shown us exactly who he is. So why did it take the invasion of Ukraine for us to believe him?

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God, church, Tsar: The world of Russian oligarch Malofeyev and his Western associates

In the first criminal proceeding against a Russian oligarch since the start of the Ukraine invasion, US prosecutors have charged Konstantin Malofeyev, an arch-conservative with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, for sanctions violations. The Kremlin crony’s business interests, from Greece to Africa to annexed Crimea, reveal the scope…

France 24

'Putin will be gone soon': Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev

Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev gave an interview to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. The former Russian lawmaker was the only member of the Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and now lives in Ukraine. He predicted that "Putin will be gone soon", arguing that the…

France 24

‘Wrong about Putin’: Did Germany and France turn a blind eye to the threat from Russia?

The escalating civilian toll of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has fuelled calls for a reappraisal of more than a decade of French and German efforts to engage with a leader whose forces stand accused of committing horrific war crimes in Ukraine.

France 24

How Ukraine has defended itself against cyberattacks – lessons for the US

In 2014, as Russia launched a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea, and in the years that followed, Russian hackers hammered Ukraine. The cyberattacks went so far as to knock out the power grid in parts of the country in 2015. Russian hackers stepped up their efforts against…

The Conversation

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole

The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history

The Guardian - UK

Russia Says Peace Talks Not Ready for Leaders’ Meeting, Says Chief Negotiator

Russia said on Sunday that peace talks with Ukraine had not progressed enough for a leaders' meeting and that Moscow's position on the status of Crimea and Donbas remained unchanged. "The draft agreement is not ready for submission to a meeting at the top," Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia says peace talks not ready for leaders' meeting - chief negotiator

Russia said on Sunday that peace talks had not progressed enough for a leaders' meeting and that Moscow's position on the status of Crimea and Donbas remained unchanged.

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 39 of the Russian invasion

Russian retreat reveals evidence of execution of civilians and mass graves; Kremlin ‘accepts’ Ukraine’s position on all issues bar Crimea

Newsroom.co.nz

The three wars in Ukraine

The war can be seen as one of aggression and self-defence, of national liberation, and of secession. The likely outcomes of all three seem to point to a divided Ukraine, writes Stephen Hoadley

The Guardian - AU

Peace proposals ‘verbally’ accepted by Moscow, except on Crimea, says Ukraine – as it happened

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 38 of the Russian invasion

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia is trying to recruit conscripts from Crimea, as Kyiv denies being behind oil depot attack

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Erdogan says he will urge Putin to take steps on Donbas, Crimea with Zelenskiy

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he will tell his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call later that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy need to take a step to address issues over Ukraine's Donbas region and Crimea.

Bangkok Post

Endgame dynamics in Russia's war

Five weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the tables are turning dramatically amidst the fog of war. As the Ukrainians have stood their ground better than anticipated, the Russians have been put on the back foot. The centre of gravity in the war now appears to be shifting eastward away…

Reuters

Explainer-Peace talks on Ukraine: Russia's red lines unchanged

Russia and Ukraine are talking about a peace deal while their soldiers kill each other, but there has been no breakthrough and they remain far apart on the question of territory.

Reuters

Russia says Ukraine willing to meet core demands, but work continues

Russia's lead negotiator at talks with Ukraine said on Wednesday that Kyiv had stated a willingness to meet core Russian demands, but that Moscow's position on the Donbas region and annexed Crimea remained unchanged.

The Guardian - UK

‘Ukrainians are not naive’: Zelenskiy voices doubt on Russian military withdrawals

President says positive signs from talks ‘do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells’ after first day of face-to-face negotiations in Istanbul

France 24

Western officials urge caution over Russian vows to scale back military operations

Ukraine proposed adopting neutral status and a 15-year consultation period on the future of Russian-occupied Crimea as long as a complete ceasefire with Russian forces is agreed, negotiators said at the conclusion of peace talks in Istanbul on Tuesday. Despite Russian vows to "radically" reduce military operations near Kyiv and…

The Independent UK

American Tyler Jacob released from Russian captivity after trying to flee Ukraine

Minnesota man was removed from bus at checkpoint in Crimea as he tried to get to Turkey

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