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Francis Scarr

2 years

Vladimir Solovyov speaking at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 2008: A war against Ukraine would be "the most terrible crime you can think of"

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In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.

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A crowd gathered this evening on Arbat, Moscow's main pedestrian street, shouts "Send Putin to the trenches!"

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Russian TV host Andrei Norkin's realisation that his country lacks freedom of speech: If I back the decision to withdraw from Kherson, I'm going to jail for questioning Russia's territorial integrity And if I oppose it, I'm going to jail for discrediting the armed forces

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You couldn't make this up Last night Russian state TV ran a report on the unexpected 'benefits' of having your son killed in Ukraine You can buy a Lada with the compensation given to you by the state!

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Graffiti in St Petersburg: "To start with you were indifferent to politics and now you're cannon fodder"

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Russian radio station Kommersant FM has been hacked and is currently playing Ukrainian and anti-war songs

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A message from Ukraine's border guards to mobilised Russians

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Here's state TV presenter Sergei Brilyov lauding Russia's "special military operation" on tonight's news He holds a British passport and owns an apartment in West London

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An op-ed for state news agency RIA Novosti titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev has created quite a stir today The rhetoric is truly horrific, even by the standards of what I'm used to seeing from pro-Kremlin media Below are a few quotes:

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Well that was a surprise

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@LindseyGrahamSC Below is the electoral map of 2012. Blue is the pro-Russia party.

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This morning the online Russian TV schedule page was hacked The name of every programme was changed to "On your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their hundreds of murdered children. TV and the authorities are lying. No to war"

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Over the weekend, Italian TV host Massimo Giletti went to Russia where he interviewed Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and top state TV host Vladimir Solovyov Fellow Italian journalist Alessandro Sallusti wasn't impressed... (thanks to @LBuscicchi for translating)

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A Wagner fighter who answered Prigozhin’s call to fight in Ukraine while serving a lengthy jail term for beating his elderly mother to death in a drunken frenzy has now received a "hero’s funeral"

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This scene from St Petersburg is probably the most egregious example of police brutality I've seen across today's demonstrations in Russia Absolutely horrific

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I haven’t seen anything like this on Russian state TV since Ukraine’s counter-offensives last year Karen Shakhnazarov says Russia needs to recognise the fact that it might lose and that anyone who thinks the West is about to fall apart is deluding themselves

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A group of women successfully chases away a lone policeman at an anti-mobilisation protest in Dagestan

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Astonishing footage of last night's drone attack on the Kremlin

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As Mikhail Gorbachev turns an impressive 90, it seems only fair to relive one of his most iconic moments, his starring role in a Pizza Hut advert

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Absolute scenes at an airfield in Russia's Far East where one man mobilised to fight in Ukraine was so drunk that he reportedly fell asleep in the long grass next to the runway

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Yesterday I sadly left Moscow at very short notice. I'm now safe in the UK and will resume tweeting later today.

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Russian state TV's Olga Skabeyeva just said that one of Ukraine's Eurovision winners "gave a Nazi salute" when leaving the stage. He was waving to the audience😂

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You just couldn't make it up Today Putin said that he's always had "enormous respect" for Ukraine as well as its culture and language

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Oh dear... 🤦‍♂️ Russian state broadcaster RT has a Christmas message for Europeans

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And another nuclear threat to the UK from Russian state TV's Dmitry Kiselyov: He says his country's Poseidon nuclear underwater drone could cause a tsunami that would "plunge the British Isles into the depths of the sea" and turn them into a "radioactive desert" (with subs)

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The exchange goes on for a few more minutes, and Skabeyeva insists that it's only the West against Russia. He replies: "You will agree that this is not a normal situation. As for India and China, which you spoke about, their support for our country is not so unconditional."

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A young female amputee has her protest placard ripped away by police at an anti-mobilisation protest in St Petersburg today "Do you want to be like me?" it reads

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Today on Russian TV: Ukraine has a nuclear bomb primed in Mykolaiv which it will detonate and then blame on Russia so that the US has a justification for getting directly involved in the war and launching missiles on Russia Got all of that? 🤪

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In his International Women's Day address on 8 March, Putin insisted that no reservists would be called up to fight in Ukraine

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Russian state TV keeps displaying this image of Zelensky as Time's 2022 Person of the Year alongside Hitler, who got the title in 1938 They're conveniently ignoring the fact that Putin got it in 2007, Gorbachev in 1987, Andropov in '83, Khrushchev in '57, and Stalin in '39 & '42

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Recently freed from jail in the US, the "merchant of death" Viktor Bout tells Maria Butina how horrified he was to learn in America that there are 72 genders "Not just gay people and normal people, but 72!"

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Russian state TV says it has discovered an "organisation of gays and lesbians" in a building in Mariupol where Ukrainian "nationalist battalions" had been based It was apparently "funded by USAID" and "virtually under the patronage of the US President and Congress"

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Once a fearsome diplomat, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is now complaining about gender-neutral toilets in Sweden

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This is what Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol looks like (Pictures via Ramzan Kadyrov)

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63 year-old retired lieutenant colonel Alexander Yermolayev from Volgograd Region says he has been called up to fight in Ukraine He suffers from diabetes and cerebral ischaemia but said he hasn't undergone any medical checks and was passed fit to serve by a military doctor

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Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva: Go on, please tell us about all the villages we're about to take! War correspondent Dmitry Steshin: Olga, we're advancing 3cm a day...

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This is surely one of the most surreal moments of the war yet Scott Ritter has turned up in Chechnya and spoken in broken Russian (some of which I couldn’t make out) to thousands of Kadyrov’s fighters about his efforts to strengthen the "friendship between Chechnya and America"

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Occasionally even I am shocked by what I see on Russian state TV Last night Vladimir Solovyov accused Olaf Scholz of imitating "his idol" Adolf Hitler and called for missile strikes on the German military facility where Ukrainian soldiers are being trained to use Gepard tanks

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Top effort from whoever did this Japanese Prigozhin voiceover 👏

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Putin says he was surprised by the results of Russia's "referendums" in occupied Ukraine Good for him, because no one else was

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Newly mobilised troops in the Russian city of Vladimir have received farewell gifts from the local sausage plant

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Russia's number one basher of "Anglo-Saxons" Maria Zakharova is celebrating her (47th) birthday today Which is as good a reason as any to recall the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman's phenomenal New York wedding in 2005

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"Why do we advance metre by metre when they advance village by village?" Olga Skabeyeva isn't happy with the way the war's going for Russia Andrei Marochko of the Luhansk "people's militia" claims it's because they're now fighting Nato rather than Ukraine

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This poetry performance by Russian-installed Kherson official Kirill Stremousov is truly one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen

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Russian organised crime boss Igor Kusk, who had been serving a 23-year jail term for two murders (amongst other things), was reportedly killed fighting for Wagner near Bakhmut in Donbas

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This clip of Russian opposition politician Vladimir Ryzhkov on TV in 2004 has recently resurfaced thanks to @CurrentTimeTv His warnings for the country’s future are frighteningly prophetic You might also recognise the presenter…

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Who needs CIA intel when you have Zhirik? (Speaking on 27 Dec) "At 4am on 22 Feb you'll feel [our new policy]. I'd like 2022 to be peaceful. But I love the truth, for 70 years I've said the truth. It won't be peaceful. It will be a year when Russia once again becomes great."

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Who knew they were so into The Sims 3?

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In Makhachkala protesters managed to pull one of their own away from a police officer

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State TV host Olga Skabeyeva asks a panellist about the Russian army's retreat from Kherson to "more favourable" defensive positions: "We've moved back to the left bank of the Dnipro. Am I right in thinking that it's higher than the right bank?" (It's lower)

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Russian military blogger Yuri Kotenok: "Not very good news continues to come from the Bakhmut area. As of 1750 Moscow time (1550 BST), the following positions on our flanks have been lost [on the map in sky blue]"

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Solovyov reacts to media reports that Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine He urges Russia to carry out strikes on Germany so that Germans "know which new Nazi leaders they've raised and brought to power" "You European Pharisees, you Nazi scumbags!"

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On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gave a talk at the Ural Federal University's international relations faculty in Yekaterinburg One brave student decided to give Zakharova a tougher time than she's used to (with subtitles)

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A few hundred (mainly female) protesters gathered in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk earlier today to protest mobilisation While performing the Yakut Osuokhai folk dance they shouted "no to war" and "no to [Yakut] genocide", local media report

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If the Kremlin’s intentions weren’t already clear enough, here is former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev saying today that the concept of an independent Ukrainian identity must "disappear for good"

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The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, has absolutely lost it with Derbent's draft officers after they drove around with megaphones telling *every man* in the city to turn up at the conscription centre

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The head of Dagestan has hit out at draft officers in Derbent for driving around the city and telling men over a megaphone to head to recruitment hubs He apologised to the people of Derbent and branded the move "utter stupidity"

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The queue for the church where Navalny’s farewell service will take place is getting longer and longer

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The loss of Kherson has unleashed levels of discontent on 🇷🇺 state TV that I'm yet to see in the war Maxim Yusin says Ukraine is laughing at his country, and that Russia only has itself to blame He derides the TV pundits who claim Russia will reach the Polish border as "clowns"

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The 25-year-old son of a sailor who died aged 26 in the Kursk submarine disaster has himself been killed in Ukraine, Russian media report

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Some jawdroppingly shameless rewriting of history from Russian state TV's Dmitry Kiselyov tonight: "Back then, 80 years ago, it was in Stalingrad that we beat back the onslaught of the collective West against our country... All of Europe was on the side of fascist Germany"

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People are applauding and shouting ‘Navalny!’ as the hearse carrying his body arrives at the church

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Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

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Just some totally normal voters casting their totally democratic ballots in Russia's "referendum" in occupied Zaporizhzhya Region

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Yesterday Navalny looked to be fine during a court hearing where he spoke via video link from his penal colony

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This is just peak Sergei Sobyanin-era Moscow: Protesters getting beaten up by police in Zaryadye, the mayor's pet project, a modern landscaped urban park next to the Kremlin

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Liza Peskova, the daughter of Putin's spokesman, has posted this "No to war" message on her Instagram stories

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It's taken them a while, but the pundits on Russian state TV are starting to question the objectives of the invasion of Ukraine Dmitry Abzalov says that it would nice to know what they actually are "for a change"

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The US has just imposed sanctions on Olga Skabeyeva She is already blacklisted by the EU and several other Western nations

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Some pre-deployment entertainment for newly mobilised soldiers at Yekaterinburg's military camp No32

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Russian Defence Ministry: This morning we successfully launched missiles at a military aviation engine factory in Zaporizhzhia Meanwhile at the city's Avrora shopping centre:

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I missed this on Friday - Russian state TV's Olga Skabeyeva getting very upset about the invasion of Ukraine not being a walkover "Nobody was preparing for this kind of war!"

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Meanwhile at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin has been speaking for over an hour

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A source tells Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) has been killed by a blast in a cafe in St Petersburg where he was giving a talk He previously said Ukrainians were mentally ill Russians

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I'm honestly speechless This is a fast-track mass wedding for Russian conscripts in St Petersburg According to this local TV report, being mobilised to fight in Ukraine is now considered a valid reason for speeding up the marriage registration process

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Alexander Lukashenko held a televised meeting with his minister of sport to decry the state of football in Belarus It's difficult to believe that this isn't satire

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This morning Russian state TV host Ruslan Ostashko expresses shock at how the Israeli foreign minister could be visiting a "Nazi state" to meet its "Jewish president, who’s also a Nazi" Maybe because Ukraine isn’t a Nazi state and Zelensky isn’t a Nazi? Just an idea

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You couldn't make it up Russian state TV has taken a video from the set of a Russian series filmed near St Petersburg on 20 March and told viewers that it sbows Ukrainians preparing fake corpses for the scene of a "staged" attack by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians

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A freshly recruited alco-battalion in Sakhalin prepares for deployment to the front In the video (amidst lots of obscenities) they say they're on their way to a short stint of training in Kamchatka before heading to Ukraine

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More threats from Olga Skabeyeva today: "Washington is well aware that if the Pentagon supplies Ukraine with ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300km, Russia has every right to defend itself. That's to say, to strike Poland or the US's Ramstein base in Germany, for example."

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Just when you thought 🇷🇺 state TV had stopped surprising you, Gazprom-owned NTV comes out with this: "In expert opinion it was the 🇺🇦 military who attacked the Kharkiv administration building with a Smerch multiple rocket launcher or an Olkha, its modern 🇺🇦 modification"

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Alexander Dugin says he agrees with Ramzan Kadyrov Russia, he argues, is fighting a "holy war against the satanic West", a "final apocalyptic, eschatological battle against the antichrist" Entirely normal stuff, in short

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Russian state TV's Olga Skabeyeva says it might be time to admit that the "special operation in Ukraine is over" Russia has now been "forced to demilitarise the whole of Nato", she claims (with subtitles)

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Last night Kremlin mouthpieces Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan tried to find scapegoats for Russia's chaotic mobilisation, with Solovyov even calling for overzealous recruitment officers to be shot I don't think this morning's attack in Siberia was what he had in mind

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Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian MP Alexander Khinshtein has declared war on South Park and Peppa Pig

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Solovyov accuses Israel of waging a "brutal" war against Gaza, unlike Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine He says that unlike 🇮🇱, 🇷🇺 never cuts off its enemy's electricity, which makes you wonder why it was firing missiles at 🇺🇦 energy infrastructure all of last winter

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The knives are well and truly out in Russia after recent retreats in Ukraine This morning Vladimir Solovyov had this to say to the military top brass "Do you think time is on our side? They've hugely increased their amount of weapons... But what have you done in that time?"

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Russian 'war correspondent' Andrei 'Murz' Morozov has committed suicide A few days ago he said on Telegram that Russian forces had lost 16,000 men in the battle for Avdiivka

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"The Europeans didn't freeze. We had such high hopes!"

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More fallout from Apple's decision to stop selling its products in Russia "Here's our response to American sanctions! We don't fear you! We'll live without your nice 'pretty' things!"

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Olga Skabeyeva says Russia just needs to sit back and wait for the West to "run out of people" as the LGBT population there grows For context, the population of Russia itself fell by 311,000 in the first four months of this year

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Today retired colonel Mikhail Khodaryonok made another appearance on Russian state TV, just two days after he gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and its growing international isolation It appears that someone's given him a bit of a talking to (with subtitles)

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This is Metropolitan Ioann of Belgorod blessing mobilised Russian troops ahead of their departure to Ukraine I hope for their sake that they're unaware of him also blessing the Kursk submarine in 1995...

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Ramzan Kadyrov claims he's sending three of his sons (aged 14, 15 & 16) to fight in Ukraine "Akhmat, Eli and Adam are ready to show their skills in the zone of the special military op. I'm not joking. The time has come to prove themselves in battle, and I welcome their ambition"

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Russian senator Frants Klintsevich has an ingenious new excuse for his country's slow progress in Ukraine He says Ukraine's army is "one of the strongest and best-trained" because it's comprised of "Russian soldiers and officers with exactly our mentality" (with subtitles)

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Putin doesn’t sound like a man who’s interested in a negotiated peace in Ukraine: “They’re running out [of weapons]… They don’t have anything, they have no future. But we do have a future.” (This is a newly released clip from his Kremlin awards ceremony for troops on Friday)

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It got pretty heated on Solovyov’s show last night The host tried to convince his cronies that nuking Europe was the only way of convincing the West to stop helping Ukraine. He insisted the US wouldn’t respond but even regular panellist Andrei Sidorov thought he was deluded

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RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan claims Russia could have "dealt with Ukraine in hours" had it wanted to, but because it's fighting a "special military operation" and not a "war", it decided against it (with subtitles)