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Kremlin officials and public worry that France's arrest of Telegram chief Pavel Durov could deprive them of one of the last sources of critical, uncensored news.

ICC issued arrest warrant in March last year accusing Putin of the war crime of unlawfully deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia during ongoing war

Putin wants to downplay the move

Pavel Durov, who has French citizenship, faces prosecution over alleged failure to suppress spread of sexual images of children and calls for violence

He has been barred from leaving France while investigations are carried out

HR McMaster writes that former president’s ‘anxieties and insecurities rendered him vulnerable’

The skirmishes come as Ukraine claimed to be continuing its advance into Russia after shock incursion

Arrested in France, the Telegram boss has found widespread support that mirrors his app’s popularity across groups.

Ukrainian forces are intent on retaining the territory in Russia’s Kursk region they seized in their incursion for “some period of time” and any Russian counteroffensive will be a difficult fight, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen said on Wednesday. The announcement came after the Kremlin dismissed talk by Ukrainian President…