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Assad to Visit Moscow in Mid-March for Talks with the Kremlin

The Kremlin confirmed on Monday media leaks about preparations for an imminent visit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Russia, refraining from giving additional details about the ongoing arrangements. A source close to the Russian Foreign Ministry told Asharq Al-Awsat said that the Russian and Syrian sides attached great importance…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Western allies take note: if you want to beat Putin in Ukraine, target his wicked little helper in Belarus

Alexander Lukashenko put our airbases and resources at Russia disposal. His fall would accelerate victory for Ukraine, says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus

The Guardian - UK

Who are the Wagner mercenaries and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

The Independent UK

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's Chef,' has emerged from the shadows with his Wagner Group

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's Chef" because of his company's origins in the catering business, now fields a mercenary army of 50,000. Its role in Ukraine is central to Russia's war effort.

WEKU

The Soviet spy films that inspired a young Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin grew up in "brute, almost Darwinian conditions". But his skills as a master manipulator would take him far.

ABC News

Ukraine vows to fortify defences in frontline Bakhmut

KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine pledged on Monday to bolster its defences in frontline Bakhmut, after reports that Kyiv was withdrawing from the city that's become a symbolic prize in the war.

Bangkok Post

Mutiny among Russian fighters as Wagner chief moans troops aren't being supplied

Yevgeny Prigozhin's soldiers have joined the regular Russian army as they battle Ukrainian forces to capture Bakhmut, an eastern city that has become the frontline of the current conflict

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‘A generational shift’: war prompts Ukrainians to embrace their language

Kremlin has banned Ukrainian from occupied territory schools but elsewhere language is on the rise

The Guardian - UK

How the IMF naively parroted Putin’s fake statistics–and botched its economic forecast for Russia

The IMF simply does not have the data it needs to independently calculate Russia’s GDP by any accepted method.

Fortune

Justice Department task force takes aim at Russian oligarchs and their riches

The Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture, set up in the days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has gone after Kremlin-aligned elites, including their luxury yachts and opulent homes.

WEKU

Wagner Chief Says Russian Position at Bakhmut at Risk without Promised Ammunition

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force warned that Russia's position around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in peril unless his troops got ammunition, the latest sign of tension between the Kremlin and the private militia chief. Ukrainian military officials and analysts also reported leaders of Russia's 155th…

Asharq Al-Awsat

David Pratt: Finger-pointing grows over poisonings in Iran's schools

It’s estimated that at least 900 girls have been poisoned in a series of bizarre gas attacks

The National (Scotland)

Vladimir Putin's 'secret brood of children being raised in luxury' while war rages on

Vladimir Putin and his rumoured lover enjoy a secret life of luxury at a forest palace and the Russian President is reportedly furious that people are now aware of their lavish lifestyle as war rages on in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

‘Putin has gone mad from power’: Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin speaks out from Russian prison

Sentenced to eight years in jail, Yashin discusses the war in Ukraine, Russian opposition and how the west can help

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What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

The relentless battle for Bakhmut; Russian plane blown up near Minsk; Putin claims west seeks to ‘dismember’ Russia

The Independent UK

Why purported cross-border attack ups ante in Ukraine war

Russia has declared that a group of saboteurs from Ukraine crossed into its territory and attacked border villages, a raid marking an escalation of the war now in its second year

The Conversation

5 things to know about Moldova and Transnistria – and why Russia's war in Ukraine is threatening their security, too

Tensions continue to mount between Russia and Moldova – a small country bordering on southwestern Ukraine that is seeking European Union membership. Moldova is also home to a breakaway region called Transnistria that has strong Russian ties, landing both places in the crosshairs of the war in Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Russia blames ‘terrorists’ after reports of fighting near Ukraine border

Anti-Putin émigré group claims its fighters crossed into Russia after Kyiv dismisses reports as ‘false flag’ attack

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The Independent UK

Putin accuses Ukrainians of attack inside Russia – but Kyiv calls it ‘provocation’

Russia’s border regions have been increasingly volatile since the invasion

Daily Mirror

'Putin's credit card' funding Ukraine torture chambers to destroy neighbour’s identity

Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'

Daily Mirror

Doctor 'who delivered Putin’s secret love kids' dies after revealing 'their existence'

Soviet-born Swiss doctor Dr Natalia Thiebaud Kondratieva was named as heading the medical team at the birth of Vladimir Putin’s secret children with his gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva, 39

The Independent UK

Putin ‘funnels millions by buying largest apartment in Russia for gymnast lover’

Russian president Vladimir Putin, 70, is alleged to have funnelled millions in illicit funds into properties for his 39-year-old girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva

Al Jazeera

Did Ukraine start a drone war on Russia?

Several ‘UFOs’ have hovered above Russia in recent days, worrying pro-Kremlin figures.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 371 of the invasion

Finnish MPs to vote on speeding up Nato accession process; Kremlin dismisses Ukraine denial it sent drones to attack targets within Russia

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin Says It Doesn’t Believe Ukrainian Denial of Attacks on Russia

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not believe a statement by Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak that Ukraine does not launch attacks against targets on Russian territory. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking a day after Russian officials blamed Ukraine for several attempted drone strikes, the latest of many…

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