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'I don’t want to be a pawn in Putin’s deadly game': Russians flee mobilisation

The announcement of Russia's first mass mobilisation since World War Two - calling up troops for its war in Ukraine - has seen thousands fleeing for its borders to escape the draft. Our Observer is one of tens of thousands of Russians to have fled to neighbouring Georgia. Footage shared…

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Putin's annexation of Ukraine provinces 'totally unacceptable': Czech Europe minister

As Vladimir Putin annexes four Ukrainian provinces, representing 15 percent of Ukraine's territory, the Czech Republic's Minister for European Affairs Mikulas Bek told FRANCE 24 that this is "totally unacceptable… the EU cannot step down from our support for Ukraine". After former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared earlier this week…

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Ukraine war: Putin announces annexation of four regions, but his hold on them may be flimsy

Vladimir Putin has formally signed a treaty annexing four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. The Russian president announced, at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square, that the incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, in the south and east of Ukraine, into Russia is the “choice of millions of…

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Vladimir Putin's TV propagandists suggest UK divers behind Nord Stream pipeline bombings

Olga Skabeyeva suggested in a recent TV broadcast that British military divers may have been behind the explosions in the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic

Daily Mirror

Putin’s annexation speech: more angry taxi driver than head of state

Russian leader’s rambling speech focuses on western sins and leaves key Ukraine questions unanswered

The Guardian - UK

Putin signs accord annexing four occupied Ukrainian regions in lavish ceremony

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to formally incorporate four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia – at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin. The ceremony followed discredited referendums in the Russian-occupied regions, which have been slammed as a "sham" by the international community.

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Janey Godley's latest Liz Truss voiceover leaves fans in stitches

This latest video shows the Prime Minister being interviewed and Janey recording over her voice.

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Putin signs document incorporating occupied areas of Ukraine into Russia

In defiance of international law, President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia. Most governments have declared the move illegal.

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Biden admin slaps new sanctions on Russia after annexation

The new sanctions have been imposed on hundreds of Russian government officials and their family members.

Axios

A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin signs treaties to make annexed Ukrainian regions part of Russia

Move raises the stakes in war which has claimed thousands of lives

Wales Online

Putin’s Roulette

Sacrificing his core supporters in a race against defeat.

Foreign Affairs

Ukraine applies for NATO membership, rules out Putin talks

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced a surprise bid for fast-track membership of the NATO military alliance on Friday and ruled out talks with President Vladimir Putin, striking back at Moscow after it said it had annexed four Ukrainian regions.

Reuters

US hits Russia with sanctions for annexing Ukrainian regions

The U.S. has sanctioned more than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including its Central Bank governor and families of National Security Council members, after President Vladimir Putin signed treaties absorbing occupied regions of Ukraine into Russia, in defiance of international law

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Biden says US will not be intimidated by Putin’s ‘reckless words and threats’: ‘He’s not going to scare us’

‘America and its allies ... are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats. He’s not going to scare us and he doesn’t intimidate us’

Daily Mirror

UK slaps sanctions and export bans on Russia after Putin annexes four Ukraine regions

Putin has declared the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding sham referendums in the occupied areas.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine accelerates bid to join NATO after Russia’s annexation

President Zelenskyy to submit ‘accelerated’ NATO application after Putin annexes occupied Ukrainian regions.

Reuters

U.S. issues new Russia sanctions for annexations in Ukraine; targets firms, lawmakers

The United States on Friday imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over its declared annexation of parts of Ukraine, targeting hundreds of people and companies, including those in Russia's military-industrial complex and lawmakers.

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Kyiv seeks steps to ensure security of Ukraine and Euro-Atlantic space

Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council met on Friday to discuss measures Russian President Vladimir Putin's proclamation of Moscow's annexation of a swath of Ukrainian territory.

Daily Mirror

Ukraine applies for 'accelerated' NATO membership as Putin annexes over 15% of country

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Reaction to Putin proclaiming annexation of Ukrainian lands

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Vladimir Putin heightens World War tensions with rant about the West on big day in Russia and Ukraine war

Putin's lengthy diatribe today culminated with the signing of documents that, from Russia's perspective, has made four Ukrainian regions part of the Russian Federation.

Tribune News Service

Putin vows annexation of occupied Ukraine lands is ‘forever’

Vladimir Putin vowed Russia’s annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine is irreversible as he prepared to formalize Europe’s biggest land grab since World War II, defying efforts by Kyiv, backed by the U.S. and its allies, to recapture its lost territory.

Reuters

Putin accuses West of blowing up pipelines as Europe steps up vigilance

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the United States and its allies for blowing up the undersea Nord Stream pipelines, raising the temperature in a crisis that has left Europe racing to secure its energy infrastructure and supplies.

Daily Mirror

Tiny Vladimir Putin in bizarre 4-way handshake ritual after months avoiding human contact

In a speech repeatedly interrupted by applause in Moscow today, Russian warlord Vladimir Putin declared that four regions his troops grabbed in Ukraine were now part of Russia - in an illegal move widely condemned and unrecognised by the international community

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