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Kremlin spokesman says Russia will strengthen western border to deter attack

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday said Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the military to strengthen the country's western borders so that no one would ever think of launching an attack.

Reuters

Photos of death and destruction in Ukraine could be laying groundwork for war crime investigators

New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario's image of a family killed by Russian shelling while trying to evacuate from the city of Irpin could become crucial evidence in the prosecution of war crimes. Warning: This story contains graphic images that may be confronting for some readers.

ABC News

U.S. investigators find evidence Russian oligarchs trying to evade sanctions -official

U.S. prosecutors have found evidence that Russian oligarchs are trying to evade sanctions put in place to pressure Moscow to stop its invasion of Ukraine, the head of a new Justice Department task force said on Friday.

Reuters

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Journalists impeded, not muzzled, by Russian reporting rules

New restrictions placed on journalists in Russia have impeded but not muzzled reporting about the country and its war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

London-based port operator accused over Abramovich $600m superyacht

Global Ports Holding facility in Turkey may be breaching UK sanctions by letting vessel dock, say lawyers

The Guardian - UK

Equestrians race to save horses abandoned in Ukraine warzones

When bombs began to fall as Russian forces poured into Ukraine in late February, thousands of people fled for safety, leaving their homes and property behind.

Reuters

Poison, planes and Putin: Abramovich’s race to save a fortune and stop the war

Since Ukraine was invaded, the Russian oligarch has been rushing to salvage his assets while conducting back-channel peace talks

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Xi Jinping once called Vladimir Putin his ‘bosom buddy’, but Russia's failing gambit in Ukraine hands China an opportunity

China wants to strengthen ties with Russia, but given the complex love-hate relationship between the two powers, it's not clear how that will play out in Ukraine.

ABC News

Twin Russian brothers, 29, die side-by-side as deaths in Putin's army hit up to 15,000

Sergeants Alexei and Anton Vorobyov died on the same day while fighting in Ukraine three weeks after Russian soldiers invaded the country in February

Daily Mirror

Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder feared Trump would hand him over to Putin after Helsinki comments

US-born British businessman behind the Magnitsky Act was horrified when Trump publicly entertained idea of handing him over to Russia

The Independent UK

Depardieu blasts Putin’s ‘crazy excesses’, Russia offers to explain Ukraine crisis

The Kremlin on Friday offered to "explain" Moscow's actions in Ukraine to French actor Gérard Depardieu after he denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin's "crazy, unacceptable excesses".

France 24

Hungary's Orban claims he can keep nation out of Ukraine war

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister has portrayed his country’s upcoming election on Sunday as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace

The Independent UK

Someone had to say it — and Biden did

President Biden says his recent remarks about Vladimir Putin were never meant to endorse a policy of “regime change” in Russia, but that he had an emotional reaction to meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Poland. That’s good enough for me.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vladimir Putin's gymnast lover has net worth three times bigger than Mike Tyson

Alina Kabaeva, 38, is the rumoured secret lover of Russian President Vladimir Putin and he reportedly has twins together with the ex-Olympian who's net worth is three times that of boxing legend Mike Tyson

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France 24

EU energy crisis: Spain's economy minister hopes for 'downward trend' in electricity prices soon

Amid supermarket food rationing, a truck drivers' strike over petrol prices and rising inflation in Spain, the country's economy minister tells FRANCE 24 that it's "essential" for Madrid to be allowed to take measures to bring electricity prices down. "We're working with the Commission to have an authorisation to decouple…

Daily Mirror

Ukraine's attack on Russia fuel depot may have been 'false flag' as war rages on

Ukraine has been accused to blowing up a fuel depot in Russia. However, there has been speculation it might have been a 'false flag' or self-inflicted assault by Putin's forces

Daily Mirror

British firms imported 3,700 tonnes of Russian steel since start of Ukraine war

An industry chief lashed out UK companies ordering metal from Vladimir Putin's regime, which mounted a brutal invasion of Ukraine five weeks ago

Wales Online

Russia’s military policy allowing for 'defensive' use of nuclear weapons explained

Days before the war, Russia conducted a large-scale exercise involving simulated long-range conventional and nuclear strikes in response to a nuclear attack.

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The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on orgygate: ‘One of the weirdest political scandals in recent memory’

Late-night hosts discussed Madison Cawthorn’s wild – and wildly unpopular – allegations, and the continued fallout from ‘the slap’

Reuters

In call with Putin, Erdogan calls for common sense, dialogue - Turkish presidency

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for Russia and Ukraine to act with common sense and maintain dialogue in a call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, his office said on Friday.

Reason

Two Illiberal and Unjust Zelensky Policies the West Should Force Him to End

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is leading his nation a just cause. But we should not allow him to impose censorship and emigration bans in the process. A nation fighting for freedom must not undermine it.

The Guardian - UK

A youthquake against Putin is unlikely. The history of Soviet hippies shows why

They created parallel universes without confronting the political order – although their satirical stance lives on, says Juliane Fürst of the Centre of Contemporary History at Potsdam

France 24

Sweden 'needs the security of NATO membership': Leading Swedish MEP

As a recent poll shows that six in 10 Swedish people support joining NATO alongside neighbour Finland, leading Swedish MEP Tomas Tobé tells FRANCE 24 why he backs ending two centuries of military neutrality in Sweden. "It is clear that Sweden needs to build security together with others. It is…

The Independent UK

Russia: Push to pay for gas in rubles not disrupting supply

Russian officials say their demand that natural gas be paid for in rubles doesn’t mean supplies will be immediately interrupted

The Conversation

Ukraine: are reports of Russian troops mutinying and deserting true? It's happened before

Reports have emerged in recent days that Russian troops in Ukraine, stalled in their advance and suffering numerous military setbacks, have sabotaged their own equipment, refused to fight and carry out orders, and even, in one report, run over their own commander.

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