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Russian court sentences Navalny ally to 6 months in jail - RIA

A Russian court on Thursday ordered the jailing for six months of Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, replacing earlier parole-like restrictions, a RIA news agency correspondent reported.

Reuters

Ukraine's past and present intertwine as a war historian seeks refuge

In late February, on a cold night in Kharkiv, Viktoria Naumenko caught a bus to a bar where two of her closest friends were waiting to tell her about their engagement. Outside, she lit a cigarette to calm her nerves before stepping into the noisy cafe. She texted a friend…

Reuters

Vladimir Putin's missing defence minister 'suffers heart attack not from natural causes'

Leonid Nevzlin, 62, an exiled prominent Russian businessman alleges Sergei Shoigu, could be left 'disabled if he survives' and is currently in intensive care

Daily Mirror

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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

Mali massacre survivors say white mercenaries involved in killings

It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed by white mercenaries descended in helicopters and opened fire on bewildered residents, according to witnesses' accounts.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin loses 40TH high-ranking officer in latest blow to Russian forces

As Russia's bloody invasion of Ukraine reaches its 50th day of fighting, the Kremlin has reportedly lost its 40th high-ranking officer, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuev

Daily Mirror

Kremlin crackdown silences war protests, from benign to bold

Hundreds of Russians are facing charges for speaking out against the war in Ukraine since a law was passed last month that criminalizes the spread of “false information” about the invasion and disparaging the military

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Accusing Russia of ‘genocide’, Biden to send more military aid to Ukraine

DNIPRO, Ukraine — President Joe Biden and other Western leaders pledged additional military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, while Russia sharply rejected the president’s description of its wartime acts as “genocide.”

Los Angeles Times

Russian warship sinks; Ukraine says its missile is responsible

(This April 14 story corrects paragraph 21 to make clear that Moldova did not directly accuse Russia's army of trying to recruit its citizens; corrects third bullet point to say that Ukraine alleges Moscow is massing troops in Belarus and Transdniestria not Moldova and Transdniestria)

Reuters

Jersey freezes £5bn assets linked to Roman Abramovich

Police searched properties connected to Russian oligarch on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Panicking Russian tank crew 'blow up their own comrades' during Ukrainian ambush

A video appears to show a Russian tank marked with the distinctive 'V' firing its main canon at one of its own armoured vehicles during the confusion after a Ukrainian ambush

Daily Mirror

Biden announces additional $800m in US military aid to Ukraine

New military aid package will include artillery systems and rounds, armoured personnel carriers and helicopters.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers Moscow

The detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow

The Independent UK

Putin's propaganda playbook shows how an army of fake fact-checkers is sowing doubt and confusion

Voices sympathetic to Russia are posing as fact-checkers in a bid to sow doubt and confusion, and to drain sympathy from a world watching the invasion of Ukraine.

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Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin ally ‘the prince of darkness’ Viktor Medvedchuk captured by Ukrainian secret services

Viktor Medvedchuk was captured by Ukrainian spies on Tuesday as President Zelensky proposed swapping him for Ukrainian POWs

Daily Mirror

Inside stricken Mariupol as 21,000 civilians killed and apartment blocks destroyed

Mariupol's mayor says 21,000 civilians have been killed during weeks of intense Russian bombardment in the city, while 100,000 people are still waiting to be evacuated

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen proposes closer Nato-Russia ties after Ukraine war

Presidential candidate says it is ‘inaccurate and unjust’ to suggest she is indebted to Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK

Who is Viktor Medvedchuk and why does his arrest matter to the Kremlin?

Analysis: Putin’s ally was Russia’s ‘main guy in Ukraine’ but Kremlin has refused prisoner exchange

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Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Navalny' gives a brave Russian dissident his taut, suspenseful close-up

The smoking gun moment in the sensationally gripping new documentary "Navalny" is something to see. We are deep in the investigative weeds with Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, and Christo Grozev, the Bulgarian journalist investigating the August 2020 poisoning that nearly ended Navalny's life. By this point in the…

The Guardian - UK

‘They were hooligans’: Chernobyl locals reeling after Russian invasion

As troops leave exclusion zone and surrounding villages, Ukraine’s nuclear agency faces huge clean-up task

Los Angeles Times

Russia rejects Biden’s ‘genocide’ accusation, claims mass capture of Ukrainian troops

DNIPRO, Ukraine — As Russia sharply rejected President Joe Biden’s description of its wartime acts as “genocide,” Moscow on Wednesday asserted it had captured more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops in Mariupol, dealing what would be a heavy blow to defenders’ desperate efforts to hold the strategic southern port city.

Reuters

Kremlin says Biden's 'genocide' comments are wrong and unacceptable

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it categorically disagreed with U.S. President Joe Biden's description of Russia's actions in Ukraine as "genocide", and it accused Washington of hypocrisy.

Reuters

Russia tells Ukraine to 'watch out' after it captures pro-Kremlin politician

Russia on Wednesday told Ukraine to "watch out" after its former Soviet neighbour captured pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk, turning down Kyiv's offer of a swap with a warning that those holding him might soon be detained themselves.

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines forced to surrender in Mariupol, claims Russia

Battle for Mariupol is believed to have left Kyiv’s forces running short of ammunition and food

Al Jazeera

Who is Viktor Medvedchuk, Putin’s main man in Ukraine?

Medvedchuk was recently captured by Ukrainian forces having fled house arrest soon after the war began.

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