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In A First, France Welcomes Russian Army Deserters

Six Russian soldiers who fled the fighting in Ukraine have found refuge in France and hope to receive asylum, in a landmark case of Russian deserters being welcomed in an EU country as a group.

International Business Times

'Disappeared Completely': Melting Glaciers Worry Central Asia

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago.

International Business Times

Russian Exiles In Georgia Inspired By Protests But Scared

Stood in the middle of a Tblisi demonstration, Russian emigre Ivan looked on with a tinge of nostalgia as thousands of Georgians protested against a highly-controversial law targeting NGOs and the media.

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Jon Jones won’t be surprised if Curtis Blaydes beats Tom Aspinall at UFC 304: ‘Dude prematurely drinking his own Kool-Aid’

UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones continues to take shots at Tom Aspinall.

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After a quarter century in power, Russian President Putin isn't going anywhere

Vladimir Putin won a landslide reelection victory, taking some 87% of all ballots following three days of voting derided by Russia's opposition and the West as neither free nor fair.

WEKU

My nation didn’t learn lesson of war, says Russian who finds bodies of Soviet soldiers

Konstantin Dobrovolski, who has spent decades finding and reburying those killed in WW2, says Ukraine invasion was ‘madness’

The Guardian - UK

Russia holds elections in occupied Ukrainian regions in an effort to tighten its grip there

Russian authorities are holding local elections this weekend in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully control

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‘Someday the war will end. And the world needs tools’: why a Ukrainian toolmaker keeps working

A full scale invasion, a missile strike on the factory and employees on the frontline haven’t stopped Serhii Ivin keeping his artisan tools business open

The Guardian - UK

Russian students are returning to school, where they face new lessons to boost their patriotism

Children across Russia have returned to school, where the Kremlin’s narratives about the war in Ukraine and its confrontation with the West are taking an even more prominent spot than before

The Independent UK

Ukrainian refugee making new life in Killin tells of harrowing story a year on from Russian invasion

The family had been offered accommodation in Edinburgh - but faced a further test when it flooded.

Daily Record

Vitalii Mykolenko's brave dad missed Everton game to join Ukraine military effort

The Everton defender reflected on the harrowing moment he discovered his dad

Liverpool Echo

Grief, anger and pride: how war upended the lives of Ukraine’s citizen soldiers

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered seismic changes in the lives of most Ukrainians. Days before Moscow launched its attack, FRANCE 24’s Mehdi Chebil visited a training centre in Kharkiv where civilian reservists prepared for a war many still hoped to avoid. Twelve months later, he returned to the…

France 24

Blake Morrison: ‘My sisters’ deaths left me feeling neglectful’

After writing books about his father and his mother, Blake Morrison swore he didn’t have another memoir in him. Then his younger sister died, and he couldn’t escape the urge to tell her story

The Guardian - UK

Alex Ovechkin moves to 2nd in NHL goals with 802, passing Gordie Howe

The Washington Capitals star scored goals 801 and 802 Friday night to move into second place on the NHL career list. Only Wayne Gretzky, with 894 goals, has scored more.

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Stephen Colbert: ‘There’s a reason the Russian army is getting its ass kicked – it sucks’

Late-night hosts discuss Russia’s failures in Ukraine, the GOP’s ‘commitment to America’ and a new dating app for conservatives

Reuters

Russian draft prompts exodus by some men as air fares jump

Some Russian men headed swiftly to the borders on Thursday after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilisation, with traffic at frontier crossings with Finland and Georgia surging and prices for air tickets from Moscow rocketing.

The Guardian - UK

Moscow’s local allies were told ‘Russia is here for ever’. Now they flee Ukraine

Supporters in shock as Kremlin reneges on vow that helped project power into captured towns and villages

Reuters

Ukraine battles to push back Russian advance in northern Donetsk

Ukraine has so far staved off any major Russian advance into the north of its Donetsk region, but pressure is intensifying with heavy shelling on the city of Sloviansk and nearby populated areas, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday.

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France 24

Should the war in Ukraine spur a nuclear security rethink?

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been caught up in the midst of conventional warfare for the first time in history. That nightmare scenario is one that few of the industry’s players had anticipated. In Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, Russian forces represent a lingering threat to the most basic…

The Independent UK

Ukranian woman ‘raped by teenage Russian soldier’ as she sheltered in school

The woman was also stabbed during the attack in a village near Kharkiv. Residents were told the soldier responsible would be executed by his comrades, reports Kim Sengupta from Mala Rohan

Liverpool Echo

Where Letter to Brezhnev stars are now: From Marvel superhero stardom to Coronation Street

Filmed in the State nightclub, the 1980s cult romantic comedy was about two young Liverpool women looking for love and escape during the height of the Cold War

France 24

Ukraine's volunteer medics race to rescue civilians trapped by shelling in Irpin

As fighting rages in the town of Irpin, on the edge of Kyiv, volunteer medics are helping to evacuate the last civilians. FRANCE 24's Gwendoline Debono joined them for a day.

AFP

Ukraine pleads for help as Biden heads to crunch NATO summit

Kyiv (AFP) - Ukraine on Wednesday appealed for Western military help, ahead of an emergency NATO summit, and denounced Russian "war crimes" in besieged places including the port of Mariupol where it says mass starvation is possible.

AFP

'Hellscape' in Mariupol as Ukraine pleads for help

Kyiv (AFP) - Ukraine appealed for more Western military help ahead of a NATO summit, as it warned that almost 100,000 people are trapped by Russian bombardment and facing starvation in the ruins of the besieged port of Mariupol.

AFP

'Hellscape' in Mariupol where 100,000 trapped

Kyiv (AFP) - Almost 100,000 people are trapped among the ruins of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, facing starvation, thirst and relentless Russian bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelensky said as the UN sharpened demands for Moscow to end its "absurd" and "unwinnable" war.

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