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Ukraine war: Zelenskyy battling Russia and corruption
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced his defence minister, after the department became embroiled in a series of corruption scandals. Although Oleksiy Reznikov has not been implicated, Mr Zelenskyy said it was time for “new approaches”. The change comes at a critical moment for Ukraine’s battle to win back territory from the Russians. Today…
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Ukraine claims break through of most difficult Russian defences
Ukrainian troops say they’ve managed to break through the most difficult line of Russian defences in the south – which should help them advance more quickly in their mission to take back territory. Ukrainian officials have been under pressure to speed up the pace of their counter offensive – but defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov said…
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‘Limitation for Russia to extend the war is not political will, it’s capability,’ says former Ukrainian minister
We spoke to Alina Frolova who was Ukraine’s deputy defense minister and started by asking her if she shares President Zelenskyy’s frustration about the language coming out of the Nato summit.
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Zelenskyy: Nato will make Ukraine safer, Ukraine will make Nato stronger
“Ukraine’s future is in Nato” – just not quite yet – that is the message from the alliance meeting in Vilnius today.
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Putin’s ‘rotten’ Russia needs to change – Evgenia Kara-Murza on the fight for Russian freedom
Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of long-time Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about her fight to free Russia’s political prisoners, the toll Vladimir’s detention has taken on their family and whether she can envisage a future in a free, democratic Russia, in this week’s Way to Change the World podcast.
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Russian MP denies military targeted restaurant after at least 11 killed in missile strike on Kramatorsk pizzeria
In Russia the aftermath of the mutiny is less destructive, but ongoing, with claims sourced to the US government that at least one senior general was aware of the uprising and allowed it to happen.
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Ukraine war: At least 11 dead in Kramatorsk missile attack
In Ukraine, Russia continues to rain down terror in the form of missiles. But in Russia, the psychodrama continues to play out following this weekend’s mutiny by militia men of the Wagner group. Rumours swirl that their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has already left his exile in Belarus and is now back in Russia. Last night…
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Can the Russian leader retain his grasp on power?
Here in Ukraine, the question is will history repeat itself? The last attempted coup in Russia in 1991 was quashed, but the Soviet leader Gorbachev was gone just months later. So is Putin now a President without a prayer?
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‘I can’t believe Putin would allow Prigozhin to go free’ says US diplomat
We spoke to Kurt Volker, a diplomat who served as the United States’ Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019.
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Russia in turmoil in the wake of mutiny
Here in Ukraine the battle against Russian forces goes on remorselessly. But in Russia it’s the reverberations of yesterday’s extraordinary events that are still being felt. President Putin is reported to have spoken again on the phone to President Lukashenko of neighbouring Belarus, who yesterday brokered the deal that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin order his Wagner…
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Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin – and what are his plans for Russia?
We’re joined by Candace Rondeaux, who is director of the Future Frontlines initiative at the New America think-tank, and professor at the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She has covered the rise of the Wagner Group since 2018. And by Arkady Ostrovsky is the Russia and Eastern Europe Editor of…
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‘Only one of them can remain’, says Ukrainian MP amid Yevgeny Prigozhin’s revolt against President Putin
We speak to Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko about the developments in Russia.
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Russia: ‘Armed rebellion’ launched by Wagner
An armed mutiny, a betrayal, a knife in the back – and a visibly angry Vladimir Putin speaking after the tanks and armoured vehicles of the Wagner Group of soldiers – supposedly fighting on his behalf – seize the city of Rostov-on-Don and take control of military sites in an audacious act of rebellion. The…
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Government calls Cobra meeting to discuss unfolding developments in Russia
The UK government has called a Cobra meeting to discuss the unfolding events in Russia.
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Ukraine air defences protect against Russian attacks [dubbed]
Ukraine’s forces remain locked in combat with Russian ones along the front lines in the eastern parts of the country. The major cities also remain under threat from Russian kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles.