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Russian palaces, villas and yachts linked to Putin by email leak – in pictures, maps and video

Exclusive: A new investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Meduza news site has found links through an email domain name that appear to connect opulent properties across Russia

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2022

Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin

Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2022

Vladimir Putin's pals warn of 'triggering World War 3' as Russia bares its teeth to NATO

The damning threat comes amid claims Russian President Vladimir Putin could declare martial law and mobilisation in five Russian regions bordering Ukraine in a desperate bid to boost his war effort

Daily Mirror · Jun 20, 2022

Vladimir Putin loses 55th colonel in Ukraine 'when attack helicopter hit by missile'

Well-decorated Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Gundorov, 51, was struck near Volnovakha in the Donbas, making him the 55th officer of the same rank slaughtered by Ukrainian forces since the start of the war

Daily Mirror · Jun 20, 2022

Russian arrested at Gatwick on suspicion of spying released without charge

A Russian arrested at Gatwick by counter-terror police on suspicion of spying has been released without charge.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

Zelensky warns Russia will escalate attacks as EU chief calls grain blockade ‘war crime’

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia will step up attacks in the coming days, amid Ukraine’s EU membership bid.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

'Today is not my day': how Russia's journalists, writers and artists are turning silence into speech

“It is impossible to stop a speeding train by throwing oneself onto the tracks,” wrote Russian poet Dmitry Kuzmin back in March. He was commenting on Olga Gordienko, a young teacher who, before she was arrested, stood for several minutes on a Moscow street with a sign that read:

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2022

Putin’s air force so ‘risk adverse’ it is leaving his ground troops ‘exhausted,’ say British defence chiefs

Vladimir Putin’s air force is so “risk adverse” that it has underperformed during the Ukraine war leaving his ground troops to become “exhausted” as they are being asked to do so much, British defence chiefs said on Monday.

Evening Standard · Jun 20, 2022

Ex-Northern Ireland secretary accuses Boris Johnson of ‘Putinesque tactics’

Labour peer Peter Hain says PM is using Northern Ireland protocol bill to provoke populist row with EU

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2022

Moment Ukrainian Soldiers Shoot Down Massive Russian Helicopter Gunship

This is the moment Ukrainian soldiers reportedly shoot down a massive Russian helicopter gunship.

Zenger · Jun 20, 2022