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We can’t know if Vladimir Putin will accept a ceasefire in Ukraine. But this is what he’ll be thinking

Key factors will drive the Kremlin’s decision. Can Russia fight on and for what? Or is there more benefit in allying with Donald Trump, asks Orysia Lutsevych of Chatham House

The Guardian - UK

Russia says it has retaken Kursk's biggest town from Ukraine as US awaits Putin's ceasefire response

Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia’s Kursk border region, as U.S. officials sought the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year that Ukraine has endorsed

The Independent UK

'Move US nuclear weapons to Poland,' Donald Trump urged by its president to deter Vladimir Putin attack

European leaders fear Russia may invade another country such as one of the Baltic States

Evening Standard

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I’ve seen Ukraine ravaged by Putin’s war – a ceasefire with Russia must not mean its destruction

ANALYSIS: I have seen the horrors of this three-year war unfold first-hand, writes Bel Trew, and the Russification of occupied Ukraine is a warning of what could lie ahead

The Independent UK

Zelensky warns partners not to let Putin ‘deceive’ them on ceasefire

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Ukraine’s partners not to let Russia and Vladimir Putin “deceive” them over a ceasefire.

The Independent UK

Russian forces recapture Kursk, raising questions about US-Ukraine cutoff

Moscow’s military liberated in a week much of the territory Ukraine had held for seven months.

Al Jazeera

Russian forces 'retake key town' of Sudzha in western Kursk region as Putin delays ceasefire to grab more land

Russian troops are reported to be gaining ground in the Kursk area from where Ukraine soldiers are withdrawing

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Antidote review – gripping study of dissidents and whistleblowers in Putin’s crosshairs

Christo Grozev, forced to flee Austria for his journalistic investigation of secret Russian operations, is the central focus of a dynamic and powerful story

The Guardian - UK

Trump says he hopes Russia will do ‘right thing’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,113

These are the key developments on day 1,113 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war briefing: Putin visits Kursk as Trump threatens consequences if ceasefire not agreed

Russian president hopes army on brink of ‘fully liberating’ border region after recent advances; Trump says he could ‘do things financially’ if Moscow rejects truce. What we know on day 1,114

The Guardian - AU

Key takeaways from Irish leader Micheal Martin’s visit with Donald Trump

Trump once again used ‘Palestinian’ as an insult against his rivals, while describing Ireland’s housing crisis as good.

Al Jazeera

Russia mulls Ukraine ceasefire proposal as G7 foreign ministers meet in Canada

US officials have travelled to Moscow to put the proposal for a 30-day ceasefire to the Kremlin.

Evening Standard

Document for Russian leaders outlines plan to prolong Ukraine war by creating Trump tensions, report says

Calling Trump plan for peace within 100 days ‘impossible,’ document states ‘resolution’ can’t come before 2026. A U.S. expert noted Russia isn’t interested in an early peace, and Trump ‘doesn’t appear to understand’ that

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The Independent UK

The ceasefire deal lays bare the bind Vladimir Putin is in

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The proposed month-long truce brokered by the US will force the Russian president to concede that his territorial ambitions in Ukraine can go no further. It is time for Donald Trump to seal the deal

International Business Times

'Very Broad Consensus' Emerging Among Europeans On Ukraine: France

A "very broad consensus" is emerging among European nations on boosting Ukraine's long-term security through the Ukrainian armed forces, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Wednesday after a meeting of Europe's five key defence powers in Paris.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese dismisses criticism from Leonardo DiCaprio over native forest clearing – as it happened

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International Business Times

Trump Says Top Negotiator Headed To Russia 'Right Now'

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his top negotiator was headed to Russia "right now" for talks on a possible ceasefire with Ukraine, after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day truce.

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The Guardian - UK

UK accuses Russia of driving its Moscow embassy towards closure

Foreign Office responds to expulsion of British diplomat and diplomatic spouse with tit-for-tat move

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin declares truce in Ukraine - but how many times has he broken ceasefire agreements?

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Vladimir Putin has broken 25 peace agreements over the past decade

International Business Times

Ukraine Truce Dominates G7 Talks Clouded By Trump's Canada Threats

G7 foreign ministers meet in Canada Wednesday to discuss moves to halt the Russia-Ukraine war, but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shrugged off questions about a prospective American takeover of the host country.

Evening Standard

Britain expels Russian diplomat and another one’s spouse in tit-for-tat retaliation

Foreign Secretary David Lammy summoned Russia’s ambassador to London to the Foreign Office for a dressing down

The Independent UK

‘Thirty days could be just 30 minutes’: Warning Putin will break any Ukraine ceasefire after US strikes deal with Kyiv

The Russian president will aim to exploit a truce, current and former senior European officials tell The Independent

The Independent UK

Voices: Putin cannot be trusted to stick to a ceasefire in Ukraine

COMMENT: As the Russian leader says the US-brokered truce is ‘difficult to accept’, a pause in fighting could be exactly what he needs to regroup – and to shatter the wartime solidarity keeping Ukrainian society united against his invading forces, says Mark Almond

The Independent UK

Kyiv losing Russia’s Kursk after being blinded by lack of US intelligence, say Ukrainians

The cutting of US intelligence to Ukrainian soldiers forced a retreat in occupied Russian Kursk, sources tell The Independent. It was the only Putin land taken by Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces during the three-year war

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