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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp sends powerful Ukraine message before Real Madrid showdown

UEFA moved the Champions League final - to be contested on Saturday by Liverpool and Real Madrid - to Paris from St Petersburg after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Jurgen Klopp dedicates Champions League final to the people of Ukraine

The showpiece game was due to be played in St Petersburg but was switched to Paris after Russia’s invasion of its neighbours

The Independent UK

Mariupol and St Petersburg to become sister cities, says Russian governor

Ukrainian port city came under full Russian control last week

The Independent UK

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Brave Russian female rock stars spark rare and defiant 'f**k the war' protest at concert

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Putin backlash begins as furious revellers chant ‘f*** the war!’ at Russian concert

Thousands of concert goers in St Petersburg, Russia, were heard chanting and condemning the war in recent footage, showing defiance against Putin's 'special operation'

Daily Mirror

Dmitry Bivol waits for his big moment in the shadow of Canelo and Putin

The unbeaten world light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has been reduced to a ghostly figure in Las Vegas but the Kyrgyzstan-born Russian remains quietly confident of upsetting Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez

The Guardian - UK

‘Troll factory’ spreading Russian pro-war lies online, says UK

St Petersburg outfit hijacks discussions on Twitter, TikTok, world leaders’ social accounts and media websites, as well as manipulating opinion polls

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UN team ‘shocked’ but ‘safe’ after strikes hit Kyiv during Guterres visit

Kyiv officials said Ukraine's capital was hit by Russian missile strikes on Thursday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier, US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve an additional $33 billion in military and economic assistance to "help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression".…

France 24

Vladimir Putin warns ‘we have tools no one else can boast of and we will use them’

Vladimir Putin issued the threat in an address to the Council of Legislators in St Petersburg

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin hints he'll use nukes with 'lightning fast' response if Russia threatened

Addressing lawmakers in St Petersburg, a fuming Putin claimed the West wants to cut Russia up into different pieces and threatened his nation would respond quickly if others interfere in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Russia Loses 2023 Ice Hockey World Championship over Ukraine

Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St. Petersburg in Russia, governing body IIHF said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The tournament was scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg from May 5-21.

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Ice hockey: Russia loses 2023 world championship

Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St Petersburg in Russia, the International Ice Hockey Federation said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

John Romano: Is it possible the new favorite for a Rays stadium is the same old site?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Here, on the precipice of a city’s future, they are selling Cracker Jack.

Tribune News Service

Russian general killed on battlefield in Ukraine, says St Petersburg’s governor

Major General Vladimir Frolov was given a military funeral at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St Petersburg on Saturday

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Manhunt for three men caught on doorbell camera carrying dead body out of Airbnb

Polk County Sherriff's Office homicide detectives are asking the public to help identify three men after Xavier Johnson was gunned down in a property in St Petersburg, Florida

The Independent UK

Police warn a serial killer may be gunning down pedestrians in St Petersburg, Florida

‘We’re assuming that the suspect is driving down the street, spotting these people that are walking down the street, having a conversation and then shooting them,’ says St Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway

Tribune News Service

Climate change to rule Rays out of St. Pete waterfront stadium?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Since the Tampa Bay Rays began their search for a site to build a new stadium more than a decade ago, sea level rise has changed where they can look, team president Brian Auld said Tuesday.

Irish Mirror

Strictly's Katya Jones denies rumours of tension between Russian and Ukrainian dancers

Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones and Luba Mushtuk come from St Petersburg while Nikita Kuzmin and Nadiya Bychkova come from Ukraine

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Russian family prefers exile to 'unbearable' pro-war mood at home

A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.

The Conversation

Vladimir Putin: risk-taker who is gambling his country's future

In the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin was known to a member of the city’s legislature, Viktor Talanov. A psychologist by profession, Talanov prepared a study of Putin in which he concluded that one of his subject’s fundamental psychological characteristics was a very…

The Guardian - UK

Charity that supported St Petersburg ballet and opera closes its doors

Prince Charles was a patron of trust set up by friend of Putin to back the Russian Mariinsky theatre

Daily Mirror

Britain targets Putin's allies with superyachts, jets and assets in clampdown

Today’s crackdown includes asset freezes, travel bans and measures to seize private jets and superyachts. Activists had called for the restrictions in the run-up to and after the Ukraine invasion

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s war has closed every McDonald’s in Russia. I remember the excitement when they first opened

Thirty years ago I queued beside my St Petersburg friends on their first visit to the Golden Arches. After communism and the cold war, the ‘Beeg Mak’ was a taste of the world they had dreamed of, writes Viv Groskop

Evening Standard

Huge queues at Victoria’s Secret as chain closes Russian stores amid war in Ukraine

Huge queues hit Victoria’s Secret stores in Moscow and St Petersburg after the outlet announced it was suspending business in Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Top Russian ballerina speaks out saying she's ashamed of Putin's invasion of Ukraine

Olga Smirnova published an emotional post on social networking platform Telegram saying she is opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine where she has family and friends

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