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Putin signs Russian law establishing electronic draft call-up

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Friday a bill on setting up electronic draft call-up procedures aimed at making military mobilisation more efficient and closing loopholes.

Reuters

Nintendo responds to reports its Russian CEO set up a shell company to get around sales ban

Nintendo says it's in talks with the company, but isn't aware of any software sales to Russia

GamesRadar

Starfield quietly drops Russian language support and Bethesda won't say why

Russian language support was cut earlier this week.

PC Gamer

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Putin signs bill allowing electronic conscription notices

Russian President Putin has signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine

The Independent UK

UN chief raises concerns with Russia about Ukraine grain deal

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has written to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey to raise concerns about the implementation of a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.

Reuters

The week Macron’s grand diplomatic project floundered

A furore over the French president’s remarks on Taiwan has left him isolated on the world stage as well as at home

Financial Times

Watch again: Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal discusses country’s future in Washington DC

Ukraine's prime minister Denys Shmyhal made an address in Washington DC today (14 April), ahead of the country's risky decision to launch a counteroffensive in the ongoing war with Russia.

The Independent UK

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US charges 21-year-old for taking, leaking classified documents

The U.S. charged an Air National Guardsman with unauthorized transmission and retention of classified material in connection with a massive leak that exposed a variety of intelligence secrets, including maps, intelligence updates and an assessment of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

Eleven killed in Russian strike, Ukraine rescue teams sift through wreckage

Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Friday, killing 11 people, wounding 21 and reducing parts of apartment blocks to a tangled mess of metal and concrete.

Reuters

Finland starts fence on Russian border amid migration, security concerns

Finland is building the first stretch of a fence on its border with Russia on Friday, less than two weeks after it joined the NATO military alliance to complete a security U-turn taken in response to the war in Ukraine.

Reuters

Hungary’s loyalties tested as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on

Budapest withdraws from a Russian-controlled bank after it was sanctioned, but ties with Western powers remain shaky.

Al Jazeera

Italy probes how Russian, wanted by US, fled house arrest

Italy is investigating how a Russian businessman escaped from house arrest to avoid extradition to the U.S. on charges of breaking sanctions

The Independent UK

Albanian court refuses to extradite Russian blogger

A court in Albania decided on Friday not to extradite a Russian self-proclaimed blogger arrested last August on spying charges, who faces similar charges in Moscow.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin orders Pacific Fleet to test readiness for precision nuclear strikes

Russia's Pacific Fleet will have to repel massive missile and air strikes during the drills as well as performing torpedo and artillery firing and launching missiles

Daily Mirror

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Russian volcano eruption horror as chilling footage shows crow cemented to death

Russia's Shiveluch volcano sent deadly ash 12 miles into the sky on Wednesday with residents urged to stay indoors and some animals unable to survive the aftermath

The Independent UK

Russian forces bear down on Ukrainian defenders in Bakhmut

Analysts and Russian officials say the battle for the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut is heating up again

Reuters

Security of Europe, Indo-Pacific in focus as G7 foreign ministers gather

Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations will focus on the security of both Europe and the Indo-Pacific as they gather in Japan from Sunday against a worrying backdrop of the war in Ukraine and China's growing assertiveness.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak in talks to boost military support for Ukraine as Russia 'beheads soldier'

The PM and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke after gruesome footage emerged apparently showing a Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by a Russian serviceman

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Russia uses horror incendiary thermite shells with lethal combustion at 2,700C

Vladimir Putin's army used incendiary thermite shells overnight as the Kremlin leader 'demands Bakhmut is taken by end of month' in his ongoing invasion of Ukraine

Daily Record

Vladimir Putin 'has cancer and receiving chemotherapy' claims leaked US documents

A series of top secret files were leaked last week which detailed within them that Putin has cancer and there are plans to 'throw' the war in the Ukraine while he is being treated.

The Independent UK

Expelled Russian diplomats are spies, Norwegians say

A senior Norwegian spy agency officer says ”the intelligence threat from Russia is not gone, but significantly reduced” after Norway expelled 15 Russian diplomats

Los Angeles Times

Drones sold at Walmart help keep Ukraine in the battle for Bakhmut

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — The Russian infantrymen slinked back and forth in twos and threes to a house in one of this embattled city's devastated neighborhoods, ferrying ammunition, an automatic grenade launcher and a heavy machine gun ahead of a planned attack.

Reuters

Ukraine says it is finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons

Ukrainian forces are finding a growing number of components from China in Russian weapons used in Ukraine, a senior adviser in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office told Reuters, as Western supplies are squeezed by sanctions.

The Independent UK

Russian oil exports back above pre-Ukraine war levels as India and China buy 90% of Moscow’s crude

Asian giants are buying 1.5 million barrels a day from Russia – each

The Independent UK

Russia trained Belarusian pilots in nuclear weapons use

Belarusian air force crews have completed their training in the use of tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s plan to deploy the weapons to its ally Belarus amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine

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