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Putin to snub Gorbachev funeral due to work schedule

Russian president lays wreath at hospital where Soviet leader died but will not attend service, Kremlin says

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine’s Kherson offensive is more symbolic than strategic

The story of the Ukrainians’ long-heralded counter-offensive on the city of Kherson is one of symbol as much as substance. Their forces have attacked across a 50-mile front, targeting five or six key strongpoints, to cut off and destroy Russian forces in Kherson, the first major strategic city seized by…

Evening Standard

Kremlin: Putin won't attend Gorbachev funeral, pays tribute

The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the weekend funeral of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev but has paid tribute to him

The Independent UK

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Vladimir Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral, Kremlin says

The Russian president will not attend the service due to ‘schedule constraints,’ the Kremlin said

The Independent UK

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

Reuters

Editorial: Gorbachev's legacy and Putin's war

"I like Mr. Gorbachev," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in 1984. "We can do business together."

Tribune News Service

Russia now so short of soldiers it may start using convicted criminals, US official says

Country could also start ‘compelling wounded soldiers to re-enter combat’

The Independent UK

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Russia starts massive war games with China and other ally states

Vostok 2022 – which will last until September 7 – shows strengthening defence cooperation between Russia and China.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: Mikhail Gorbachev’s failures did not go deep enough

Mikhail Gorbachev failed at everything he tried as the Soviet Union’s last leader. The state he led could only change the world for the better by failing — and it did. But, alas, not for long.

Tribune News Service

Clara Ferreira Marques: Putin will turn Gorbachev’s death to his advantage

Mikhail Gorbachev was a man who hoped for the best, and got the worst.

Tribune News Service

Top Russian oil tycoon and opponent of Ukraine war killed after plunging from 6th floor

The hospital where Ravil Maganov plunged from the sixth floor window is on Marshal Timoshenko Street in Moscow - the same one where the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev died earlier this week

Daily Mirror

Russia launches war games with China, others

Russia has launched weeklong war games that involve forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the U.S. The maneuvers are also intended to demonstrate that Moscow has a sufficient capability for massive drills even…

The Independent UK

Putin’s military command centres in Ukraine hit by ‘intensive long-range strikes’ in counterattack, says UK

Vladimir Putin’s military command centres in Ukraine are being hit with “intensive long-range strikes” as his forces are being pushed back by a counterattack, British defence chiefs said on Thursday.

Evening Standard

History's bookends: Putin reversed many Gorbachev reforms

Mikhail Gorbachev stood for freedom, openness, peace and closer ties with the outside world

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: UN to maintain ‘continued presence’ at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid reports of shelling nearby – as it happened

Head of IAEA says there is ‘a lot more to do’ at the Russia-controlled facility in south-east Ukraine

The Times of India

Putin brings China and India to Russia for war games defying US

NEW DELHI: Russia is holding major military exercises involving China and India as President Vladimir Putin pushes back against attempts by the US and its allies to isolate him over his invasion of Ukraine.

Businessweek

Russia’s Conspiracy-Theory Factory Is Swaying a Brand-New Audience

RT is banned in the US and Europe—but winning friends in the developing world.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war - live: UN inspectors reach nuclear plant amid Russian shelling

The situation around the site is ‘difficult but remains under full control,’ Russia's defence ministry said

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The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 190 of the invasion

UN visit to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant goes ahead despite increased military activity in vicinity; Ukraine’s Kherson counteroffensive not stalled or failed, Zelenskiy adviser says

ABC News

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev loved a good hat – so Australia's main man in Moscow got him an Akubra

In 2017, the centenary of the November Bolshevik revolution landed on Melbourne Cup Day. The Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrated at Australia's embassy in Moscow, James Glenday writes.

Tribune News Service

Putin, who mourned USSR loss, offers Gorbachev faint praise

Russian President Vladimir Putin famously described the Soviet Union’s collapse as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” On Wednesday, he marked Mikhail Gorbachev’s death with only muted praise for the leader who oversaw the Communist state’s demise.

ABC News

Treasurer responds to concerns over unions at Jobs Summit, Cameron Smith defends LIV Golf decision, and will Vladimir Putin attend Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral? — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's Mikhail Gorbachev funeral nightmare as he fears exposing health to west

Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, following his death but the last leader of the Soviet Union's funeral poses issues for the Russia and its president

The Independent UK

US: Russian military facing 'severe manpower shortages'

The United States says it has determined that Russia is suffering “severe manpower shortages” in its six-month-old war with Ukraine and that is has become more desperate in its efforts to find new troops to send to the front lines

The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy: sadly, history will judge this good man harshly

No other person but the final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev – who has died aged 91 – could bring to life the eternal debate on the role of the individual in history. Does real change happen because of impersonal structural factors, or because of individual choice by…

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