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The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

What happened to WNBA star Brittney Griner and why was she detained in Russia?

The basketball star was finally released on 8 December after being detained in Moscow for 10 months

The Independent UK

Russia wants to turn Kherson into 'city of death', Kyiv says

A senior adviser to Ukraine's president said on Thursday Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a "city of death" after Moscow ordered its troops to withdraw from the southern Ukrainian city.

Reuters

Britain has frozen 18 billion pounds worth of Russian assets

The British government said on Thursday it had frozen assets worth more than 18 billion pounds ($20.5 billion) held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and businesses sanctioned over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

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Russia links extension of Black Sea deal to freeing its grain and fertiliser exports

Russia said on Wednesday it still saw no progress on easing its exports of fertilisers and grain - parts of the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow views as fundamental to extending the initiative beyond next week.

Reuters

What's 'Putin's chef' cooking up with talk on US meddling?

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a low profile over the years, but he has been increasingly in the spotlight recently

The Independent UK

Russia Orders Troops Out of Kherson in Major Reversal

Russia ordered its troops to withdraw from the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday in a further major blow to its campaign amid a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Officials in Kyiv reacted with caution, saying the Russian army was unlikely to leave the strategic city without a fight, while US…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin Will Not Attend G20 Summit in Bali

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 leaders' summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali next week, Moscow's embassy in Indonesia told AFP on Thursday. "I can confirm that (foreign minister) Sergei Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation to the G20.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Russia-Ukraine war: Russian booby traps turning Kherson into ‘city of death’, says Ukraine official – as it happened

Adviser to head of the office of Ukraine’s president says Russian military have mined apartments and sewers and plan to reduce Kherson to ruins

The Guardian - AU

Kherson retreat shows Russian military has ‘real problems’, says Biden, as Zelenskiy urges caution

US president points to problems in Vladimir Putin’s war machine but Ukraine president warns there is ‘always resistance from the enemy’

The Guardian - AU

Putin appointed deputy head of Kherson killed in car crash

Pro-Moscow Kirill Stremousov, wanted for treason by Kyiv, loses his life in an accident near Henichesk

Wales Online

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 260 of the invasion

Moscow orders troops to leave Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson in humiliating retreat; Ukraine responds with caution

The Guardian - AU

Ukrainian troops reclaim dozens of towns from Russian control, close in on Kherson

Ukrainian troops have reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, officials said, the day after Moscow announced its withdrawal from the strategic capital city of Kherson province.

Reuters

Biden: Russia's evacuation of Kherson shows they have real problems

U.S. President Joe Biden said Russia's order to evacuate troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River near the Ukrainian city of Kherson showed Moscow was having "real problems" with its military.

Reuters

A Russian-appointed official died in a car crash in Ukraine's Kherson

Born in Ukraine, Kirill Stremousov had switched to Russia's side and mimicked its claims about Nazi rule, becoming spokesman and deputy governor of the Moscow-installed administration in Kherson.

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Reuters

Russia's war hawks rally behind decision to abandon Ukrainian city of Kherson

Russia's leading war hawks on Wednesday swiftly rallied behind the decision to abandon the Ukrainian city of Kherson, putting a brave face on one of Moscow's most humiliating retreats in nearly nine months of war.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s security chief discusses Ukraine, trade on visit to Iran

Nikolai Patrushev meets his Iranian counterpart and Iran’s president, as Moscow and Tehran look to deepen ties.

Benzinga

Brittney Griner Moved To Russian Penal Colony, Her Lawyers Don't Yet Know Exact Location

Brittney Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, has been moved from a detention center outside of Moscow to a Russian penal colony to begin serving her nine-year sentence for having inadvertently carried

Radio France Internationale

Russia orders troops to retreat from annexed Ukrainian region of Kherson

In a major setback to the Russian military campaign in southern Ukraine, Moscow has ordered its troops to withdraw from the recently annexed region of Kherson in the face of a spirited counterattack by Ukrainian forces.

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The Independent UK

Power or profit: Why Iran is helping Russia wage war in Ukraine

Ukraine says captured Iranian drones were likely delivered to Russia after the war began

WEKU

Russia says it's withdrawing from the key city of Kherson, but Ukraine is skeptical

Russia announced a withdrawal from Kherson, Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government said there's "no signs" Russian forces left without a fight.

Chicago Sun-Times

Russia sends Brittney Griner to penal colony to serve sentence

Her lawyers said Wednesday that they did not know exactly where she was or where she would end up — but that they expected to be notified when she reached her final destination.

Reuters

Key developments in Ukraine's Kherson region since invasion

Ukrainian troops were greeted by joyous residents in the centre of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion in February.

France 24

'Cannon fodder': Why elite Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine are angry

Soldiers from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, an elite corps of the Russian army, published an open letter on Sunday denouncing their superiors for using them as cannon fodder in Ukraine. The criticism dominated Russian media so much that it provoked a response – the first since the beginning of…

Reuters

Explainer-Why Ukraine's southern Kherson region is a strategic prize

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday ordered his troops to withdraw from the west bank of the Dnipro River in the face of Ukrainian attacks near the southern city of Kherson, in a potential turning point in the war.

ABC News

Russia orders withdrawal of troops from Kherson and west bank of Dnipro River in Ukraine's south

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu orders his troops to withdraw from the illegally annexed city of Kherson, but Ukrainian officials remain sceptical.

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