Russia has sent around 10,000 naturalized citizens to fight in Ukraine, a top official said Thursday, adding that some had chosen to leave the country rather than face being enlisted. Moscow has been accused of pressuring Central Asian migrants to join its armed forces amid an intense recruitment drive to...

Russia Sent 10,000 Naturalized Citizens to Fight in Ukraine: Official

The Independent

 Ukraine has pulled back its soldiers from the outskirts of eastern Chasiv Yar town where they are losing territory to Russian forces.Oleh Shyriaiev, commander of the 255th assault battalion, which has been fighting in the area for six months, claimed the Russians burned every building not destroyed by shelling after capturing the neighbourhood.“I regret that we are gradually losing territory,” he said, speaking by phone from Chasiv Yar, but added, “we cannot hold what is ruined”. He said Russia is using scorched-earth tactics in an attempt to destroy anything that could be used as a military position in an...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv troops retreat from key eastern town as Moscow conducts nuclear drills

Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces claimed by Moscow, demands Kyiv swiftly rejected as tantamount to surrender.

Putin demands more Ukrainian land to end war; Kyiv rejects 'ultimatum'

Ukraine has foiled an alleged plot to overthrow the government that “would have played into Russia’s hands,” security officials in the war-torn country said Monday.

Ukraine says it thwarted a plot to overthrow the government

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has said that the situation there has been "calmer" since Russian missile launchers shelling it were hit by Ukrainian fire. Ihor Terekhov's comments came nearly two weeks after the US and other Western nations gave the go-ahead for Ukraine to hit targets inside Russia near Kharkiv.

Ukraine 'hits missile launch sites in Russia'

The Hill

Although 80 world democracies rejected that approach, the largest democracies of Latin America looked atomized, small, and faint-hearted in the face of a great and extraordinary threat to humanity and world peace.

Opinion: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia say no to peace and yes to Putin

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Daily Mail

The Russian President accused Kyiv's Western partners of raising tensions even further by greenlighting the use of NATO weapons against targets on Russian soil

Putin vows to 'go to the end' in Ukraine in thinly-veiled nuke warning as Kyiv unleashes 'heaviest kamikaze drone barrage of the war'

NBC News

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s security service said Monday that it foiled a coup that would have “played into Russia’s hands” as his Ukrainian forces battled their Russian counterparts in the east of the country. News of the plot emerged ahead of the visit of one of Russian...

Coup attempt thwarted in Ukraine, Security Service says, as Hungary's Orbán arrives in Kyiv for talks

Ukrainian forces withdrew from a section of an embattled town in the eastern Donetsk region, a retreat from part of a strategic position that signaled a setback in the struggle to hold off Russia’s advance. Military commanders ordered troops to pull out of a district in the town of...

Ukraine retreats from part of strategic town as Russia advances

Fox News

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has kept in close contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the invasion of Ukraine started, but he did not visit Kyiv until this week.

Putin stresses peace only after Ukraine's surrender as Hungary's Orban makes surprise visit to Moscow

Jailed British-Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a Siberian prison hospital, his wife has said.The 42-year-old – a leading Kremlin critic who has survived two poisoning attempts – is serving a 25-year jail sentence after repeatedly condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine and calling for Western sanctions against Moscow. The charges have been roundly condemned by Western nations, including the UKMr Kara-Murza was transferred on Thursday evening to the hospital in Omsk prison, where he is jailed, according to his wife Evgenia, who said his lawyers had waited five hours to see him but were denied visitation rights.In...

Jailed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza transferred to Siberian prison hospital, wife says

The Guardian

One person was killed and at least nine others injured in Kharkiv; a 14-storey apartment building in Kyiv was set on fire after Russia strikes. What we know on day 859

Ukraine war briefing: Russia launches attacks on Kharkiv and Kyiv as Zelenskiy appeals for help

Business Insider

Estonia has ramped up its defense spending and believes it could hold out for a couple of weeks before reinforcements came, if Russia attacked.

Estonia says it could hold out against a Russian attack 'for a couple of weeks' before NATO arrives

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said countries "friendly to Russia" were the ones that deserved special attention. He added that Russia would seek to boost the share of settlements conducted in the currencies of BRICS countries, referring to an economic coalition of emerging markets which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Cut off from the West, Putin says almost 40% of Russian trade turnover is now in rubles

Nations also including Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and United Arab Emirates did not sign final communique at summit on peace, says Swiss government

Saudi Arabia, India and South Africa among countries opting out of Ukraine declaration – as it happened

Ukraine's military intelligence has been conducting operations in Africa and the Middle East to reduce Russian military potential, and Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov has been leading the charge to fight Russia anywhere it can be found.

Opinion: Ukraine is taking the fight to Russia in Africa, Syria

(Reuters) - A Russian official said on Monday that fighting was gripping parts of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region which Moscow has been trying to seize and added that Ukraine's military was pouring men and equipment into the contested area.

Russian official says Ukraine pouring troops into contested Kharkiv region

WashingtonExaminer

On Sunday, gunmen linked to Islamic State attacked several locations in Russia’s Dagestan province, leaving at least 20 killed and 46 wounded. The attackers burnt down an empty synagogue and killed a Russian Orthodox priest while assaulting his church. On the same day, an ATACMS strike by Ukrainian forces was intercepted by Russian air defense, […]

Attacks rock Russia and Putin’s image

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150.Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, “Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.” It did not elaborate.There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Ukrainian officials. The Associated Press could not independently verify Russia's claims about the missiles used.Kyiv’s forces have relied heavily on Western-supplied weaponry since Russia’s invasion more than...

Russia summons the American ambassador over a deadly attack that Moscow says used US-made missiles

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Kazakhstan dissident dies in Ukraine following assassination attempt

Aydos Sadykov, a renowned critic of Kazakhstan’s political regime, passed away two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt in Kyiv, his wife announced on Tuesday. His...

Kazakhstan dissident dies in Ukraine following assassination attempt

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