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1 week ago

Russians’ Trust in Putin Hits Wartime Low as Fatigue Grows Trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin fell to its lowest level since before the start of the invasion of Ukraine, as a slowing economy and deepening war fatigue weigh on public sentiment.

#VladimirPutin #RussianMilitaryInvasion #RussianEconomy #PutinBegsRussianOligarchsForMoney #RussiansDoNotTrustVladimirPutin #War-wearyRussians

Bloomberg:

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1 week ago

Kremlin denies Putin asked businessmen to fund Russian war effort The Kremlin on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putinhad asked leading businessmen ‌to donate money to stabilise Russia's finances as it presses on with the war in Ukraine.

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Reuters:

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1 week ago

Putin Praises Billionaire for Voluntary Contribution to Budget Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed an initiative from one of the country’s billionaires to donate a large sum to the budget as a contribution reflecting how businesses were built in the 1990s, ...

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Bloomberg:

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1 week ago

Ukraine war live: Cash-strapped Putin pleas for oligarchs to prop up Russian economy Putin says Russia will continue to fight till it captures the remaining areas of Ukraine’s Donbas

#VladimirPutin #RussianEconomy #RussianOligarchs #PutinBegsRussianOligarchsForMoney #TheKremlin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine

The Independent:

Cash-strapped Vladimir Putin pleas for oligarchs to prop up Russian economy www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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1 week ago

Putin asks oligarchs to donate to Russia’s dwindling defence budget Russian president expected to continue invasion of Ukraine until his forces have secured remaining areas of eastern Donbas

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The Guardian:

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2 weeks ago

Russia will stop deploying Kenyan fighters to Ukraine, Musalia Mudavadi says Some 1,000 Kenyans are believed to have recruited to fight in Ukraine - many say they were lured under false pretences.

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BBC: Some Kenyans say they were "...lured to fight for Russia with promises of well-paid civilian jobs", but instead were forced into fighting in Ukraine:

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1 month ago

Russia 'losing thousands' of troops for each mile in Ukraine, NATO commander says This week marked the fourth anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion into neighboring Ukraine.

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ABC News:

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1 month ago

Zelenskyy says Putin has 'not broken' Ukrainians as he marks 4 years since Russia's all-out invasion President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has not “broken Ukrainians” nor triumphed in its war.

#VolodymyrZelenskyy #Ukraine #NATO #EuropeanSecurity #VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #War-wearyRussians

AP:

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1 month ago

From bakeries to beauty shops, Russian businesses are feeling the pain from a new wartime tax policy As Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marks four years, the pressure on Russia’s economy is starting to show.

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AP:

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1 month ago

PHOTO ESSAY: Portraits of Ukrainians on the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians have now lived with four years of war. They have lost limbs, loved ones, livelihoods and homes, but not hope.

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AP:

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1 month ago

4 years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the war by the numbers Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago launched Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. It has caused immense suffering for civilians and harrowing ordeals for soldiers while rewriting the ...

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AP:

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1 month ago

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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The Guardian:

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1 month ago

Russian prosthetics workshops fill up with wounded soldiers After losing his right leg on the battlefield in Ukraine, Dmitry, a former fighter with Russia's Wagner paramilitary group, is walking again thanks to a new prosthetic limb.

#War-wearyRussians #VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine #ProstheticLimbs #WoundedRussianSoldiers

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1 month ago

Why a dart frog poison believed to have killed Alexei Navalny points to the Kremlin The allegation feeds into a long history of high-profile poisonings in Russia, many targeting foes of President Vladimir Putin.

#AlexeiNavalny #Poisoned #MadameNavalnaya #EuropeanSecurity #UK #France #Germany #Sweden #TheNetherlands #OrganizationForTheProhibitionOfChemicalWeapons #War-wearyRussians #VladimirPutin #TheKremlin #RussianMilitaryInvasion

NBC News:

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1 month ago

Putin killed Alexei Navalny with frog poison—European intelligence Russia poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frog while he was in prison.

#AlexeiNavalny #Poisoned #FrogDartOnlyInSouthAmerica #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #VladimirPutin #TheKremlin #War-wearyRussians #MadameNavalnaya #EuropeanSecurity #EuropeanIntelligence

Newsweek:

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1 month ago

Ukrainian athlete seeking to honor killed countrymen loses appeal to compete at Olympics Vladyslav Heraskevych had been removed from competition after wearing his “helmet of remembrance” honoring people killed by Russia.

#2026WinterOlympics #SkeletonRacer #VladyslavHeraskevych #HelmetOfRemembrance #Ukraine #RemeberingUkrainiansKilled #VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #War-wearyRussians #SomeThingsWorthMoreThanMedals

NBC:

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1 month ago

Russia Attacks a NATO Country in a War Game. It Doesn’t End Well. In a simulation where Russia breaches the Lithuanian border, Europe struggles to respond without U.S. help.

#EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine #USAllies #DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #War-wearyRussians

Politico magazine:

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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1 month ago

Ukraine businesses struggle to cope as Russian attacks bring power cuts and uncertainty While businesses were prepared for electricity cuts due to Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, no one expected such a brutal winter.

#Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #War-wearyRussian #VladimirPutin #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine

AP:

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2 months ago

Chechen warlords’ health crises threaten Putin’s plan for the region Ramzan Kadyrov is allegedly sick and his likely heir seriously injured, putting at risk the Kremlin’s succession strategy

#VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #EuropeanSecurity #Chechnya #RamzanKadyrov #Succession #Ukraine #NATO

Financial Times:

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2 months ago

Vladimir Putin violates Trump’s temporary winter truce, killing 5 Ukrainians in overnight airstrikes Moscow continued its relentless assault on Ukraine — despite a personal plea from Trump — while the war-torn country and its decimated energy infrastructure go through a deadly cold sna…

#VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine #stevewitkoff #Trump

NY Post:

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2 months ago

Putin ‘will send thousands of criminals to wreak havoc across Europe’ Estonian foreign minister claims Russia will deploy former soldiers to cause chaos on the Continent after any Ukraine ceasefire

#VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #Ukraine #Ceasfire #Estonia #MoreVladimirPutinChaosAcrossEurope #EuropeanSecurity #NATO

The Telegraph:

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2 months ago

Russians feel strain of Putin's war with mobile internet shutdowns Officials have urged residents to treat the outages, intended to prevent attacks by Ukrainian drones, as an opportunity for a “digital detox.”

#VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #RussianInternetAccess #RussianInternetBlackOuts #BlackOutsNotStoppingUkranianDrones #War-wearyRussians #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity #NATO

NBC News:

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2 months ago

Putin hosts Syria's Sharaa with Russia's military presence high on the agenda Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa in the Kremlin on Wednesday for talks that were set to include the sensitive issue of Russia's future military presence in S...

#VladimirPutin #russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #Syria #EuropeanSecurity

Reuters:

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2 months ago

Critics aghast as White House displays framed photo of Trump with Putin Lawmaker from Estonia says photo celebrates ‘the greatest war criminal of the 21st century’

#DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin #FramedPhotoHungInWhiteHouse #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #Ukraine #Optics #EuropeanSecurity

The Guardian:

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2 months ago

Russia offers cash bonuses, frees prisoners and lures foreigners to replenish its troops in Ukraine Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

#VladimirPutin #Russia #RussianMilitaryInvasion #RussiaDesperateForSoldiers #Prisoners #Foreigners #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine #Zelenskyy

AP:

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2 months ago

France's navy intercepts an oil tanker in the Mediterranean sailing from Russia Officials say that France’s navy, working with intelligence provided by the United Kingdom, intercepted an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that traveled from Russia, in a mission targeting the san...

#FrenchNavy #OilTankerSailingFromRussia #Russia #VladimirPutin #RussianMilitaryInvasion #FrenchArmy #France #UnitedKingdom #UKIntelligence

AP:

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2 months ago

Ukraine blitzes Putin's top secret super-weapons testing hub in drone attack UKRAINIAN forces have struck Vladimir Putin’s top secret super-weapons testing hub in a sophisticated drone assault, military sources say. The daring operation was aimed at thwarting Russian …

#VladimirPutin #RussianMilitaryInvasion #OreshnikMissile #EuropeanSecurity #NATO #Ukraine

The Sun:

www.the-sun.com/news/1579936...

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2 months ago

Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury: Putin is a heretic – he has no holy mission in Ukraine For years, the Russian Orthodox Church has given its blessing to Moscow’s brutal invasion and attempted to frame it in religious terms. The former archbishop tells Maira Butt that Vladimir Putin’s vio...

#VladimirPutin #RussianMilitaryInvasion #ExArchbishopOfCanterbury #RowanWilliams #Heresy #Ukraine #EuropeanSecurity #NATO

The Independent:

"Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury: Putin is a heretic – he has no holy mission in Ukraine": www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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2 months ago

'Greenland fiasco: Vladimir Putin happiest person in the world' - Lt. General (ret.) Ben Hodges

#Greenland #Denmark #NATO #EuropeanSecurity #VladimirPutin #Trump #RussianMilitaryInvasion #Ukraine

France 24:

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2 months ago

Ukraine war latest: UK position 'of destructive nature', says Russia - but Moscow hails 'step forward' in Europe Vladimir Putin's mouthpiece has spoken positively about European leaders, but singled out the UK for criticism. Britain, meanwhile, has rolled out new energy support for Ukraine as Russia targets its ...

#VladimirPutin #RussianMilitaryInvasion #Ukraine #UK

Sky News:

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