EU leaders urged to be tough on China if it backs Russia in Ukraine Bloc pressed to threaten sanctions at summit on bilateral relations amid concern about authoritarian alliance The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022
Kremlin 'concerned' about U.S. 'complete misunderstanding' of Putin Suggestions by U.S. officials that President Vladimir Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him awkward truths about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine show how little they understand him or Russia's government, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Reuters · Mar 31, 2022
Ukraine lunchtime briefing: Russian troops defect while Vladimir Putin faces trouble at home Commanders have been visiting captured and surrendered Russian troops 'in order to select those who wish to serve' Wales Online · Mar 31, 2022
Rape laws ‘must be strengthened after Russian soldiers attack women in Ukraine’ Laws against rape in war zones need to be strengthened following reports Russian soldiers have attacked hundreds of women during the invasion of Ukraine, MPs have heard. Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022
Who is the Butcher of Mariupol? Sanctioned Russian colonel accused of Ukraine hospital bombing UK sanctions Mikhail Mizintsev who is accused of ordering bombing of children’s hospital and theatre where civilians were sheltering The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022
Vladimir Putin 'being misled about Russian war by his advisors' claims GCHQ chief Sir Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, said Russian leader Vladimir Putin underestimated how strong the international reaction would be in response to his decision to invade Ukraine Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2022
Will Vladimir Putin’s barbaric war finally flush away Nigel Farage’s apologist fringe? The horrors of the war in Ukraine have naturally dominated headlines in the past weeks, so it has been easy to miss the fact that domestic politics in Britain has been quietly transforming. When the smoke clears and our focus returns to the state of our own country, as it… Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022
UK sanctions Russian media organisations, targeting disinformation Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik and some of their senior figures, saying it was targetting those who push out President Vladimir Putin's "fake news and narratives". Reuters · Mar 31, 2022
Putin Said Timing Premature for Ukraine Ceasefire, Says Draghi Russian President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi that conditions were not yet in place for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Draghi told a news conference on Thursday when asked about a telephone call with Putin the previous day. Draghi also said that Putin told him that current gas… Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 31, 2022
UK sanctions Kremlin propagandists and 'butcher of Mariupol' Mikhail Mizintsev Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, propagandist Sergey Brilev and Kremlin funded TV-Novosti, which owns RT, have all been sanctioned by the UK Government Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2022
Russian media organisations and bosses sanctioned by UK over Ukraine war The Kremlin-funded TV-Novosti broadcaster and the organisation behind the Sputnik news agency have been hit with sanctions. The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022
Russia's Putin assured his commitment to humanitarian access in Ukraine, Norway PM says Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said Vladimir Putin had assured him Russia would contribute to securing humanitarian access to besieged civilians in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Reuters · Mar 31, 2022
Turkey juggles relationships with Russia, Ukraine amid economic crisis Turkey has played a major role in the search for an end to the Ukraine war as the host for this week’s talks between Moscow and Kyiv – the product of an ambivalent stance experts say is largely rooted in the troubled Turkish economy’s deep links to both countries. France 24 · Mar 31, 2022
Russian general dubbed ‘butcher of Mariupol’ among new list of sanctions announced by Liz Truss Propagandists also targeted in expansion of sanctions list The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022
Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2022 Russian troops branded 'cowards' by commander in leaked voice note after defying Putin A furious Siberian-based Interior Ministry commander recorded a six-minute voice note telling Russian riot police called on to fight in the war that they'd live a life of shame
The Guardian - AU · Mar 31, 2022 Close ties allow Russian propaganda to spread swiftly through China, report claims A cyber monitoring group says Chinese sources are amplifying disinformation about Ukrainian ‘nazism’
Reuters · Mar 31, 2022 Putin said timing premature for Ukraine ceasefire- Draghi Russian President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi that conditions were not mature yet for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Draghi told a news conference on Thursday when asked about a telephone call with Putin the previous day.
Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2022 Arrest Vladimir Putin for war crimes if he goes to G20 summit, top Tory urges Former Foreign Office Minister Harriett Baldwin says Russian President Vladimir Putin should be detained if he turns up at the G20 in Bali in November
Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022 The young Russian soldiers sent to die in Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion The spiralling death toll among Russian troops was laid bare on Thursday as some of the young soldiers who died in Ukraine were named.
Axios · Mar 31, 2022 Western intelligence: Putin's advisers are "too afraid to tell him the truth" on Ukraine There is perhaps "no bigger insult" than calling Putin, a former KGB officer, "misinformed."
Salon · Mar 31, 2022 Marie Yovanovitch on Trump and Putin The ambassador Trump fired talks about the threat to democracy, and how Ukraine's struggle has "inspired the world"
Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022 ‘Butcher of Mariupol’ targeted in new swathe of sanctions by UK Britain hit “The butcher of Mariupol” with sanctions on Thursday.
Reuters · Mar 31, 2022 Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won't go to Ukraine President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia's annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022 Ukraine braces for fresh wave of attacks in east as Russia builds forces in Donbas Volodymyr Zelenskiy says fierce resistance has pressured Russian forces in Kyiv but Ukraine is preparing for strikes in other regions
Financial Times · Mar 31, 2022 Fallacious political thinking of our time ‘Simplists cannot accept that some explanations may be true and yet too complex for laypeople to understand’