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First Thing: Russia using weapons ‘smuggled by Iran’ in Ukraine

Anti-tank missiles and RPG’s are being supplied through undercover networks via Iraq, militia there say. Plus, how sonic pollution hurts marine life

The Guardian - UK

Putin says Russia will achieve 'noble' aims of its Ukraine military campaign

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow's military operation in Ukraine would undoubtedly achieve what he said were its "noble" objectives.

Reuters

Live Updates | Separatists deny using chemical weapons

A spokesman for Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has denied using chemical weapons to uproot Ukrainian troops in the port city of Mariupol

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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.

Al Jazeera

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Prominent Russian anti-war activist held

Opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza repeatedly criticised Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine Braces for Fall of Mariupol to Russia

Russia was poised Monday to take the strategic city of Mariupol and unleash a massive offensive in eastern Ukraine, as fresh diplomatic efforts with Moscow to broker a peace offered little hope of de-escalation. With the war grinding toward its seventh week, Austria's leader said he had raised alleged Russian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Civilians flee eastern Ukraine in advance of a widely forecast attack – as it happened

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Biden says Russia appears to be committing ‘genocide’ in Ukraine

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said “evidence is mounting” that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, although it would be up to lawyers to make a final determination. Earlier Tuesday, Kyiv said ongoing talks with Russia to end the war were “extremely difficult” after Moscow accused Ukrainian negotiators of…

France 24

Russia ‘using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine’

Iraqi militias and others say undercover networks being used to supply materiel such as RPGs and anti-tank missiles

The Guardian - UK

Putin's top ally in Ukraine arrested, say authorities

Ukraine on Tuesday said it arrested the Kremlin's most prominent ally in the country as Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his strongest signal yet the war will grind on, warning peace talks were at a dead end.

Reuters

Austrian chancellor says Putin meeting was ‘not a friendly visit’

‘The conversation with president Putin was very direct, open and tough,’ Nehammer says

The Independent UK

Prominent Russian opposition activist jailed in Moscow

Vladimir Kara-Murza is a critic of the invasion of Ukraine and described the Kremlin as a ‘regime of murderers’

The Guardian - UK

Mariupol mayor says 10,000 killed as west fears fresh Russian assault on eastern Ukraine

Russia wants a ‘diminished’ victory in time for annual 9 May parade in Moscow, west believes

The Independent UK

New phase of Ukraine war brings no obvious route to end fighting

Analysis: west faces dilemma as Moscow and Kyiv prepare for trial of strength in Donbas

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Daily Mirror

Putin could TRIPLE troop numbers in Donbas as Moscow plots new assault on east Ukraine - officials

It came amid warnings that Russian soldiers had become “desensitised” to the horrors of war in Ukraine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mariupol Mayor Says Siege Has Killed More than 10,000 Civilians

The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were "carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The Associated Press, Mayor…

The Independent UK

Austrian chancellor tells Putin to end Ukraine war

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he told Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine and raised the issue of “serious war crimes" committed by Russian troops

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Draining Russia of a new generation of talented émigrés

If anything good can come from continuing diplomatic relations with Russia, it might be our embassy in Moscow helping skilled Russians to flee the Putin regime.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Says West Helping Ukraine Prepare Fake Allegations of War Crimes

Moscow said on Monday that the United States and Britain were helping Ukraine prepare fake claims about the alleged persecution of civilians in Ukraine to feed to international media in an attempt to smear Russia. Since Russian troops withdrew from towns and villages around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Ukrainian troops…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Austrian Chancellor Tells Putin to End Ukraine War

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Monday that he urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine and raised the issue of "serious war crimes” committed by the Russian military. Nehammer was the first European leader to meet Putin in Moscow since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine…

Reuters

Russia says West helping Ukraine prepare fake allegations of war crimes

The Independent UK

Russia could triple troop numbers in bid to take Donbas, say Western officials

Moscow’s troops are ill-disciplined but becoming desensitised to war and committing ‘revolting’ acts, one official said.

Reuters

Russian ambassador accuses Poland of seizing diplomatic property

Russia's ambassador to Poland on Monday accused the Polish authorities of seizing Russian diplomatic property in Warsaw as the two countries' already fraught relations have soured further over Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.

Reuters

Army experience drives Ukraine's Vereshchuk to secure prisoner release

It's the five years spent serving in the Ukrainian army that drives Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk's passion to secure the release of every single prisoner of war being held in Russia.

Reuters

Austrian leader holds 'open and tough' talks with Putin in Moscow

Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer held "direct, open and tough" talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, in a visit that drew mixed European reactions including surprise, scepticism and condemnation.

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