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September 04, 2023

World

Putin comments on grain deal after meeting with Erdogan

Moscow will return to the Black Sea initiative only after the West lifts restrictions on Russian agricultural exports, the president has said

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, left, at the Rus health resort, in Sochi, Russia. © Sputnik / Sergey Guneev

September 04, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

Zelensky Replaces Defense Minister, Citing Need for ‘New Approaches’

The fate of the defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, had been the subject of increasing speculation in Ukraine. It was the biggest shake-up in Ukraine’s government since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, in April.Credit...Pool photo by Sebastian Gollnow

September 03, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

South African Inquiry Rebuts U.S. Charge on Russian Arms

A government investigation about a Russian ship contradicts U.S. accusations that South Africa provided arms to fight Ukraine, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. But a government report won’t be released, he added.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, late last month at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.Credit...Sergei Bobylyov/TASS, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

September 03, 2023

World

Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin

Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed.
In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric.
BBC Russian asks former Western diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

By Editors Desk

August 31, 2023

Europe

Prigozhin alluded to threats in new video release

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.

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TELEGRAM/ @GREY_ZONE I/ The video was released by a Telegram channel with links to Yevgeny Prigozhin

August 31, 2023

World

NATO envoy names conditions for Ukraine to join

Membership will only be possible when the country's borders are “stable,” a Czech official has said

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FILE PHOTO. © Global Look Press / Dominika Zarzycka

August 30, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

Russia’s kamikaze drones raining down on Ukraine's east

In Ukraine's north-east, Russia has recently deployed an estimated 100,000 troops in renewed attacks. But Quentin Sommerville, who spent the past month with Ukrainian brigades in the area, discovers it is the increasingly sophisticated drone attacks that are particularly feared.

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DARREN CONWAY/BBC | Antonina Semenivna, who lives near Kupiansk, is one of the many civilians vulnerable to these attacks

August 30, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

Ukraine war: Hundreds bid farewell to fighter ace Juice

Hundreds of people in Kyiv have paid their respects to one of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots, who was killed in a mid-air crash last week.

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EPA | Mourners at the wake held photos of Andriy Pilshchykov, who served in the 40th tactical aviation brigade

August 29, 2023

Europe

Putin critic predicted his own death

The chilling footage of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been uncovered showing the rebel warlord taking a swipe at Russia’s leadership and with an ominous prophecy.

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The recently emerged video of Yevgeny Prigozhin predicting his own death. Picture: East2West

August 27, 2023

World

NATO’s Ukraine strategy has failed – ex-Italian PM

Western efforts to arm Kiev and break the Russian economy are getting nowhere, Giuseppe Conte has said

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Leader of Italian populist Five Star movement Giuseppe Conte addresses he media on October 20, 2022 in Rome. © Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP

August 27, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

US senator cheers hurting Russia at cost of only Ukrainian lives

Ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney has claimed that sending weapons to Kiev is Washington’s best defense investment in history

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US Senator Mitt Romney speaks during a March 15 committee hearing in Washington. © Getty Images / Tom Williams

August 27, 2023

World

Prigozhin’s death in plane crash confirmed – Moscow

DNA testing shows that all those listed on the flight manifest were indeed on board, the Investigative Committee has said

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A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal street memorial near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, August 26, 2023. © Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP

August 27, 2023

Europe

Putin Destroys a Rival, but ‘Killing Prigozhin Is Going to Set Off Greater Paranoia and Repression’

The most critical internal threat Putin has faced in years is gone. His rival and former ally’s reported death likely means the end for the Wagner Group but ushers in a new phase of fear and anxiety in Russia

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August 27, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

Fighter pilot ace ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ dies

The death of a renowned fighter jet pilot marks a “terrible” day for Ukraine as it tries to tip the balance against Russia.

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Major Andrii Pilshchykov was killed in the crash. Picture: MOD Ukraine

August 27, 2023

Europe

A Former French President Gives a Voice to Obstinate Russian Sympathies

Remarks by Nicolas Sarkozy have raised fears that Europe’s pro-Putin chorus may grow louder as Ukraine’s plodding counteroffensive puts pressure on Western resolve.

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Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France arriving for a meeting on the Russian attack of Ukraine in Paris in February 2022.Credit...Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

August 26, 2023

Europe

How Putin's long friendship with Wagner boss Prigozhin turned ugly

Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia's state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.

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August 26, 2023

Europe

Wagner mercenaries must swear allegiance to Russia - Putin

President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.

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August 26, 2023

Europe

With Prigozhin dead, Putin has traded low-budget global reach for safety at home

While Putin's spokesperson denied that he'd killed Prigozhin, a former Kremlin official told Insider that the rebellion made his death "inevitable."

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August 25, 2023

World

Prigozhin Built a Russian Empire in Africa. Can It Survive Him?

Paramilitary group has an estimated 5,000 men and lucrative businesses across at least four African nations.

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Wagner fighters have been providing security for the president of the Central African Republic for years. LEGER SERGE KOKPAKPA/REUTERS

August 25, 2023

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The Godfather in the Kremlin

The very public death of Putin henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin highlights the evolution of Russia into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of global leadership.

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The chilling footage of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been uncovered showing the rebel warlord taking a swipe at Russia’s leadership and with an ominous prophecy.

The death of a renowned fighter jet pilot marks a “terrible” day for Ukraine as it tries to tip the balance against Russia.

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