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Moscow says Bucha accusations meant to derail peace talks, justify more sanctions

Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday that images of dead bodies strewn across the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which Russia says were staged, were designed to justify more sanctions against Moscow and derail peace talks with Kyiv.

Reuters

Putin adviser promises legal action against attempts to seize Russian assets

Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev says businesses subject to sanctions will take action in international courts

The Guardian - UK

Easy Russia sanctions exhausted, U.S. and allies face economic bite

As the world's wealthy democratic powers roll out new sanctions against Russia in response to horrifying images of executed Ukrainians in the city of Bucha, it has become clear that the easiest options are now exhausted and stark differences have emerged among allies over next steps.

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Trump's trashing of Ukraine pays off big

A poisoned well: 63 Republicans just voted against even expressing support for democracy

Salon

Fries The Limit: Russian Fighter-Bomber Jet Down In Flames

The Sukhoi Su-34 was first developed for the Soviet Union,with an initial flight in 1990.

Zenger

Russia's denial of responsibility for atrocities in Bucha recalls 50 years of lies over the Katyn massacre

Ukrainian troops entering the city of Bucha, 25km north-west of the capital Kyiv, have reportedly found evidence of what appear to be horrific war crimes committed during the month-long occupation by Russian forces. Having forced the Russian troops out of the area, any jubilation at the victory was cut short…

The Conversation

Ukraine war shows grim conventions on 'right' and 'wrong' ways to kill — and what makes a war crime

With the war in Ukraine in its second month, casualties are mounting. The full toll of civilian death is not yet clear, but the catastrophic impact of the sustained siege of cities like Mariupol by Russian forces is not difficult to imagine.

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How the Russia-Ukraine conflict has put cryptocurrencies in the spotlight

Just days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thousands of people in Canada joined a truckers’ protest movement called the “freedom convoy” to oppose government health measures.

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French priest renowned for uncovering massacres warns of ‘Buchas everywhere’

Over the past two decades, Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has been identifying World War II atrocity sites, uncovering evidence of overlooked massacres. After doing similar work with the Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, he is now back in Ukraine, collecting…

France 24

More sanctions on Russia on tap as Zelenskyy warns of new hardships

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces Wednesday carried out punishing strikes against key Ukrainian cities, brushing aside mounting world outrage over the execution-style killings of civilians even as Washington and its Western allies prepared to impose tighter new sanctions against Moscow.

Los Angeles Times

Russia accused of using mobile crematoria to destroy all traces of horrific atrocities

Ukraine claims Russian "murders are covering their tracks" using mobile crematoria with occupiers trying to identify and eliminate all potential witnesses to these barbaric acts of war

Daily Mirror

Hungary's Orban says he asked Putin to apply ceasefire in Ukraine

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday he had just spoken at length with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked him to announce an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

Reuters

Boris Johnson says Russian atrocities in Ukraine look like 'genocide'

The Prime Minister promised further sanctions against Russia as he condemned the killing of civilians in Ukraine.

Daily Record

Millionaire Russian couple's humiliating fall from grace after pledging loyalty to Putin

Yana Rudkoskaya and champion figure skating husband Evgeni Plushenko, who have pledged their allegiance to the dictator, are among the country's elites feeling the sting of sanctions

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Brave protesters lie tied up on streets of Moscow to recreate Bucha massacre

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Hundreds of dead civilians were found in the city of Bucha - sparking protests in the Russian capital of Moscow to highlight the atrocities that left the Ukrainian city's streets littered with dead bodies

Reuters

U.N. to vote Thursday on U.S. push to suspend Russia from rights council

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a U.S. push to suspend Russia from the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomats said.

Evening Standard

Netherlands detains 14 Russian superyachts amid sanctions

Dutch government says the ownership of the vessels is being investigated

Reuters

Russia hit with new round of U.S. sanctions as Biden decries 'major war crimes'

The United States targeted Russian banks and elites with a new round of sanctions on Wednesday, including banning Americans from investing in Russia, in response to what President Joe Biden condemned as "major war crimes" by Russian forces in Ukraine.

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War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals' support for Putin as a leader of conservative values

In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange request” given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers “pray that God would work in his heart so that…

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How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia's war against Ukraine?

As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when Russian cultural productions are being canceled around the world.

The Independent UK

Russia’s actions in Ukraine ‘not far short of genocide’, says Johnson

The PM said Western allies will move to impose new sanctions on Moscow following more reports of Russian atrocities.

France 24

Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky dies at 75

Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Russians’ aggrievement and wounded pride, has died at age 75, the speaker of the lower house of Russia's parliament said Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Russia’s main target? Truth. Journalists pay a heavy price to protect it

Weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and sought to “liberate” the port of Mariupol by bombing it into the ground, the words of the video journalist Mstyslav Chernov of the Associated Press are a powerful reminder of why journalism matters.

Daily Mirror

Incredible pictures show woman's rescue after Russian attack buries her alive in Ukraine

A woman was pulled from the rubble of a building by rescuers in the town of Rubizhne, in Ukraine's Luhansk region, where Russian shelling has been raining down for week

Daily Mirror

Putin puppet and Russian oligarch's Italian villa targeted in arson attack

Vladimir Putin supporter and Russian state TV presenter, Vladimir Solovyev, saw one of his luxury Italian villas on Lake Como targeted in an arson attack this morning

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