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Russia appoints new ground forces chief despite hawks' disapproval

Russia has appointed Colonel-General Alexander Lapin as chief of staff of the country's ground forces, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Tuesday, despite fierce criticism from leading hawks over his performance in Ukraine.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 320 of the invasion

Market attack leaves at least two people dead; Ukrainian forces holding positions in Bakhmut under heavy attack, says Zelenskiy

The Guardian - UK

Russia backs banning of maps disputing official 'territorial integrity'

Russia's government extended support to a legislative amendment that would classify maps that dispute the country's official "territorial integrity" as punishable extremist materials, the state-owned TASS news agency reported on Sunday.

Reuters

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Russia bolstering defences amid threat of ‘potentially major Ukrainian offensive’, says UK

Russia tried to annex both regions via sham referendums last year before a renewed Ukrainian offensive which made several important gains, including Kherson city

Evening Standard

Two Power Plants in Russian-Controlled E.Ukraine Damaged by Rockets

Two thermal power plants in part of Ukraine's Donetsk region controlled by Russian forces were damaged in a rocket attack by the Ukrainian army, Moscow-installed officials and Russia's state TASS news agency said on Sunday. Initial information suggested that the plants in Zuhres and Novyi Svit had been hit and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia and Ukraine each exchange 50 prisoners of war

Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 50 captured soldiers on Sunday in a deal both sides welcomed even as they fought one another in eastern Ukraine. Moscow said it carried out deadly missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk that killed “more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen”, but Kyiv rejected…

France 24

Russian airliner lands safely in Moscow after declaring emergency - Tass

A Russian-operated Boeing 737 airliner that declared an in-flight emergency during a domestic flight on Saturday landed safely at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Tass news agency cited a civil aviation source as saying.

Reuters

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Vladimir Putin to weaponise Miss Universe with state backing for Russian contestant

Vladimir Putin plans to give state backing to Miss Universe contestant Anna Linnikova, 22, a model representing Russia at this month's pageant being held in New Orleans in the US

Daily Mirror

Japan's 'anti-Russian course' makes treaty talks impossible - TASS

Japan's "anti-Russian course" makes peace treaty talks impossible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in comments published by the state TASS news agency on Tuesday.

Reuters

Putin's latest ploy to ship more Russian soldiers to Ukraine is offering free sperm banks

Russian troops mobilized to fight in Ukraine can freeze their sperm for free before shipping out, “just in case.”

Fortune

Russian troops ‘to be able to freeze sperm for free’ amid Ukraine invasion, says lawyer

Russian reservists called up to fight in Ukraine will be able to freeze their sperm for free, a lawyer has claimed.

Evening Standard

Russia offers free sperm freezing to soldiers sent to Ukraine

Russia’s health ministry will provide financial support for sperm freezing to soldiers sent to fight in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russia's mobilised troops entitled to free sperm freezing - TASS

Russian troops who have been part of a mobilisation drive for military operations in Ukraine will have the right to get their sperm frozen for free in cryobanks, the state TASS agency reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russian tycoon who appeared to criticise Ukraine war dies in fall from hotel window

His friend Vladimir Budanov died of a heart attack on the same trip two days earlier

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Russian sausage tycoon who was accused of criticizing Ukraine war dies in India hotel fall

Pavel Antov, of the main pro-Putin party United Russia, was on a trip to celebrate his upcoming 66th birthday

France 24

Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that impose price cap

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude oil and oil products from February 1 for five months to nations that impose the cap. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events…

Reuters

Russia's Lavrov: West and Ukraine want to destroy Russia

The United States and its NATO allies together with Ukraine want to defeat Russia "on the battlefield" in order to destroy it, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the state TASS agency in remarks published Monday.

Reuters

Russia's Putin and China's Xi to confer this week - TASS quotes Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will speak before the end of the year, Russian state news agency TASS said on Monday, without giving details of the timing or format.

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France 24

Millions of Ukrainians endure winter without electricity

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that persisting power shortages throughout the country meant that nearly 9 million people had no electricity. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian Drone Downed in Russian Air Base, 3 Killed

Russian air defense troops downed a Ukrainian drone as it approached an air base in southern Russia and three military personnel died after being struck by debris, Russian news agencies said Monday. It was the second attack on the Engels base this month. Engels, in the southern Saratov region, lies…

Daily Mirror

Putin being kept alive to wage war in Ukraine by foreign doctor, claims Russian expert

An expert has said that Vladimir Putin’s choosing to treat his alleged condition may “have a direct impact on his situational awareness and the adequacy of the decisions" he makes about the Ukraine war

Bangkok Post

22 killed in Russian nursing home fire

MOSCOW: A fire erupted overnight in an illegal private nursing home in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 22 people, Russia's investigative committee said Saturday.

Reuters

Blaze kills 22 in Russian home for elderly, electrical problems eyed

A fire ripped through an old people's home in Russia's Siberia region, killing 22 people, and investigators are eyeing whether improper use of electrical equipment was to blame, news agencies said on Saturday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Ambassador to Washington Says US-Russia Relations in ‘Ice Age’

Russia's ambassador to the United States on Friday compared the state of US-Russia relations to an "ice age", and said that the risk of a clash between the two countries was "high", Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported. TASS cited Anatoly Antonov as saying that it was hard to say…

Reuters

Russian ambassador to Washington says U.S.-Russia relations in 'ice age'

Russia's ambassador to the United States on Friday compared the state of U.S.-Russia relations to an "ice age", and said that the risk of a clash between the two countries was "high", Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported.

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