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Ukraine Applies for NATO Membership, Rules Out Putin Talks

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a surprise bid for fast-track membership of the NATO military alliance on Friday and ruled out talks with President Vladimir Putin, striking back at Moscow after it said it had annexed four Ukrainian regions. Zelenskiy signed the NATO application papers in an online video clearly intended…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin’s speech on annexation: What exactly did he say?

President Vladimir Putin announced that four occupied regions of Ukraine would formally be incorporated into Russia.

Al Jazeera

Russia: what the history of WWII conscription shows us about who gets sent to the front lines

Russian president Vladimir Putin has yet to call for universal conscription, although he recently announced mobilisation of 300,000 reservists. The reason why the Kremlin has not introduced a wider policy may lie in the history of conscription and its impact on public support for war.

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Russian military showing increased frailty in Ukraine war -British military chief

Russia's mobilization has exposed the mounting pressure the Kremlin is under as its armed forces show signs of "increased weakness and frailty" in the war in Ukraine, Britain's Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said on Friday.

Reuters

Ukraine applies for Nato membership after Russia annexes territory

Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismisses Moscow ceremony as a farce and rules out negotiations with Putin

The Guardian - UK

Several German embassies see surge in Russians asking about visas

Germany's embassies in countries neighbouring Russia have seen a surge in visa enquiries from Russian citizens since partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine began in their home country, a source from the German foreign ministry said on Friday.

Reuters

Russian ambassador summoned as Britain imposes new sanctions on Moscow

Liz Truss said the UK will never accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions.

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'We have to strengthen security' after Nord Stream pipeline damage: EU's Gentiloni

"Serious damage" caused by "substantial explosions – not done by an amateur". That's the assessment of the EU’s Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni after gas leaks were discovered in the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany earlier this week. The former Italian prime minister tells FRANCE 24 that currently there…

France 24

'I don’t want to be a pawn in Putin’s deadly game': Russians flee mobilisation

The announcement of Russia's first mass mobilisation since World War Two - calling up troops for its war in Ukraine - has seen thousands fleeing for its borders to escape the draft. Our Observer is one of tens of thousands of Russians to have fled to neighbouring Georgia. Footage shared…

France 24

G7 ministers threaten "economic costs on Russia" over Ukrainian annexation

The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) countries condemned Russia's proclaimed annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday as a "new low point" in the war and vowed to take further action against Moscow.

Reuters

Putin's annexation of Ukraine provinces 'totally unacceptable': Czech Europe minister

As Vladimir Putin annexes four Ukrainian provinces, representing 15 percent of Ukraine's territory, the Czech Republic's Minister for European Affairs Mikulas Bek told FRANCE 24 that this is "totally unacceptable… the EU cannot step down from our support for Ukraine". After former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared earlier this week…

France 24

U.S.'s Sullivan, NATO's Stoltenberg discuss Russia annexation attempt, Nord Stream 2

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday discussed concerns over Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine territory and the apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the White House said in a statement.

Reuters

Ukraine war: Putin announces annexation of four regions, but his hold on them may be flimsy

Vladimir Putin has formally signed a treaty annexing four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. The Russian president announced, at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square, that the incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, in the south and east of Ukraine, into Russia is the “choice of millions of…

The Conversation

Putin’s annexation speech: more angry taxi driver than head of state

Russian leader’s rambling speech focuses on western sins and leaves key Ukraine questions unanswered

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Putin signs accord annexing four occupied Ukrainian regions in lavish ceremony

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to formally incorporate four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia – at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin. The ceremony followed discredited referendums in the Russian-occupied regions, which have been slammed as a "sham" by the international community.

Reuters

Baltics say Ukrainian annexation mirrors their occupation story

Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday brought back painful memories in the Baltic countries, which say the same playbook was used to join them to the Soviet Union in 1940.

Reuters

Factbox-New U.S. sanctions hit Russia bank governor, 57 entities

The United States introduced new sanctions on Friday in response to Russia's annexation of Ukraine territory in referendums that Biden administration officials call "fraudulent."

Axios

Biden admin slaps new sanctions on Russia after annexation

The new sanctions have been imposed on hundreds of Russian government officials and their family members.

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The Independent UK

Azerbaijan to increase gas deliveries to Bulgaria, Europe

Azerbaijan’s president says his country is a reliable partner and will stick to an agreement to double gas exports to the European Union by 2027

The Guardian - UK

A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin signs treaties to make annexed Ukrainian regions part of Russia

Move raises the stakes in war which has claimed thousands of lives

Foreign Affairs

Putin’s Roulette

Sacrificing his core supporters in a race against defeat.

The Independent UK

US hits Russia with sanctions for annexing Ukrainian regions

The U.S. has sanctioned more than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including its Central Bank governor and families of National Security Council members, after President Vladimir Putin signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, in defiance of international law

The Independent UK

Biden says US will not be intimidated by Putin’s ‘reckless words and threats’: ‘He’s not going to scare us’

‘America and its allies ... are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats. He’s not going to scare us and he doesn’t intimidate us’

Daily Mirror

UK slaps sanctions and export bans on Russia after Putin annexes four Ukraine regions

Putin has declared the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding sham referendums in the occupied areas.

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