Putin Decrees Russia Takeover of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered his government to take over operations at Europe’s largest nuclear power station in the Russia-annexed region of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine.  “The government will ensure that the nuclear facilities at the plant… are integrated as federal property,” the executive order said.  The power station has been occupied by…

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Russia Claims Front ‘Stabilized’ as Ukraine Pushes on With Counteroffensive

Russian officials sought to allay concerns Wednesday that Ukraine could achieve a major breakthrough in its ongoing counteroffensive amid reports that Kyiv’s forces were advancing in both the south and east of the country.  Russian pro-war blogger Semyon Pegov confirmed Wednesday that Ukraine had recaptured a number of locations in the southern Kherson region, including…

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Putin Confident Front Will ‘Stabilize’ Despite Ukrainian Advances

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he believed the situation in the four newly annexed Ukrainian regions would stabilize shortly despite Russian forces’ ongoing losses to Kyiv’s counteroffensive. “We are working on the assumption that the situation in the new territories will stabilize,” Putin said during a televised video call with Russian teachers. Kyiv…

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Elite Russian Intelligence Unit Suffers Major Losses in Ukraine – BBC

An elite, highly secretive Russian military intelligence unit may have lost up to three-quarters of its reconnaissance manpower in Ukraine, according to research published by the BBC’s Russian service Tuesday. Like other special forces units, the exact size of the GRU intelligence agency’s 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade is classified. But based on the brigade’s death…

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Team Navalny Says Relaunching Regional Network to Resist War, Mobilization

Associates of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said they are relaunching his regional political network to fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent “partial” mobilization ordered by President Vladimir Putin.  “It’s time for us to restore our network to fight mobilization and war,” said Ivan Zhdanov, the former director of Navalny’s…

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Russia Gives Occupied Ukraine Residents 1 Month to Choose Allegiance

Ukrainians who have fled their country’s occupied regions annexed by Moscow have one month to accept or reject Russian citizenship, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin moved to annex Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south on Friday following widely disputed referendums, incurring new Western sanctions. Russian lawmakers are…

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Russia Space Agency Seeking to Extend ISS Participation Past 2024 – Official

Russia’s space agency is discussing with Moscow a continuation of its participation in the International Space Station past 2024, a Roscosmos official said Monday. Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia’s human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started “to discuss extending our participation in ISS program with our government and hope to have permission…

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‘We Cannot Win’: Russia’s Military Veterans Opposing The Ukraine War

After retiring from the Russian Air Force at the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Vitaly Votanovsky got involved in political activism in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.  Now, he is a vociferous opponent of the invasion of Ukraine and has been repeatedly detained for photographing the graves of dead soldiers.  “Putin destroyed the country’s military mobilization…

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Wrongful Mobilization Hits 50% in Far East Russian Region

Around half of those recruited into the Russian military from Far Eastern Russia’s Khabarovsk region had been sent home due to wrongful mobilization, the region’s governor said Monday. Russia’s first draft since World War II has sparked protests and criticism, even among Kremlin loyalists, for the chaotic mobilization process. Several regional leaders have reported taking measures…

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Large Russian Force Faces ‘Encirclement’ in Eastern Ukraine

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U.S. Announces ‘Severe’ Sanctions on Russia Over Annexations

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Putin Declares Russia’s Annexation of Occupied Ukraine, Lashes Out at West

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U.S. Indicts Russian Billionaire Deripaska, 3 Women for Evading Sanctions

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Russian Troops Face ‘Imminent Defeat’ in East Ukraine Supply Hub

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Putin’s Ratings Drop on Ukraine Draft

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Russia to Send Conscripts to Ukraine With Little Training, Old Equipment

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