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Olympics head rejects Zelenskiy call to ban Russian athletes from Paris Games

Thomas Bach defends possible ‘white flag’ invite and says governments should not decide sports participation

The Guardian - UK

Olympics not on wrong side of history over Russia, insists defiant IOC president Thomas Bach

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation is not on the wrong side of history by aiming to help Russians and Belarusians qualify for the 2024 Paris Games

The Independent UK

British weapons ‘could be manufactured in Ukraine’

Talks come as fears raised over UK’s leadership of Nato rapid-reaction force in 2024

The Independent UK

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Russia-Ukraine war live: highest Russian casualties since first week of invasion – as it happened

UK intelligence says Ukrainian forces also suffering high attrition rate; Andrzej Duda says decision to send F-16s would not be easy to make

The Guardian - AU

Putin’s war has reinvigorated the west’s defence of liberty. That unity must not crack now

The democracies have confounded the Russian tyrant with their resolve to support Ukraine. That must be sustained in 2023

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine's Zelenskiy sacks top official, says clean-up drive continues

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue.

Reuters

'Ukraine will be lucky to get Airfix fighter jets from blundering Tory rabble'

After Ukrainian President Zelensky's plea to Britain for warplanes to fight the Russian invasion, columnist Mark Steel warns that the Tory Government's track record suggests he shouldn't expect much

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Leaked docs suggest Vladimir Putin is mobilising army of ‘kamikaze’ spies in UK

A Russian intelligence source close to the Kremlin has suggested Moscow will "intensify undercover work with secret informants" across the UK, it has been claimed

Daily Mirror

'It's good that Sunak backs Zelensky - but this can't heal our wounded economy'

Keir Mudie says Rishi Sunak is supporting Ukraine as it continues to fight Russia, as well as Turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake - but the economic situation in the UK is still not great

Daily Mirror

Russia’s plans to seize eastern Ukraine could take two years, says Wagner boss

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s comments suggest Moscow is preparing for long conflict, as Zelenskiy renews appeal for fighter jets• Ukraine war live

The Guardian - UK

Zelenskiy steps up jets lobbying – but are RAF Typhoons what Ukraine needs?

The UK’s workhorse fighters have never been busier, and older ones lack the necessary ground attack capabilities

The Guardian - UK

Wagner head warns it could take two years to achieve Moscow’s objectives – as it happened

Yevgeny Prigozhin says Moscow’s stated aim of capturing eastern regions unlikely to happen in 2023

The Guardian - AU

Russia hits Ukraine power grid and gains ground in eastern Ukraine

Russian missiles hit power facilities on Friday across Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned from a tour of Western capitals and Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was underway inthe east. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

France 24

UN draft resolution: Any peace must keep Ukraine intact

Ukraine’s supporters have circulated a proposed resolution for adoption by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of its smaller neighbor

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The Independent UK

Prepped and eloquent, Zelenskyy wows Europe's leaders

Before the Ukraine war, Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to western European capitals as a junior partner from one of many poorer eastern countries

The Independent UK

Zelensky shares frustrations over Germany’s ‘up and down’ support

EU leaders have voiced concerns about sending long-range missiles to war-torn Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Great Britain among 35 countries to demand Russian athletes be banned from Paris Olympics

There is increasing pressure on the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris Games after an emergency summit on Friday

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Zelenskiy visits London, Paris and Brussels; the secretive Ukrainian special forces taking the fight across the border

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The Independent UK

No ‘pretend neutrality’ for Russian athletes at Olympics, Zelensky demands

Britain is among those lobbying for an outright ban on individual Russians and Belarusians at the Paris Olympics.

The Guardian - UK

Zelenskiy calls any Russian return to Olympics a ‘manifestation of violence’

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told a summit of 35 sports ministers that Russian and Belarusian competitors would be forced ‘to play along with war propaganda’

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy: We still have to work to get arms we need

(This story has been refiled to complete a quote in paragraph 3)

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelenskyy Tells Summit ‘No Place’ for Russia at Olympics

Russian athletes have "no place" at next year's Paris Olympics while their country’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a summit of sports officials from about 30 countries Friday. The International Olympic Committee argues it would be discriminatory to exclude Russia and ally Belarus from sports ahead…

The Guardian - UK

Putin is gambling on the west growing impatient with Ukraine. We have to prove him wrong

A year into his country’s fight for its very survival, Volodymyr Zelenskiy knows some in Europe are looking for a way out, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

France 24

Did Volodymyr Zelensky call for ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against Russia? Not exactly

Social media users have been circulating a video of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, claiming that the footage shows him calling on NATO to launch preventive nuclear strikes against Russia. It turns out, however, that this footage isn’t new – Zelensky made these statements back in October 2022. Moreover, the translation…

The Guardian - UK

Large-scale Russian missile attacks ‘reconnaissance’ for future offensive

Ukrainian military says 61 out of 70 cruise missiles shot down as Black Sea launches seen as test of defence infrastructure

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