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As their yacht bobbed on the Mediterranean, the microchip executive snapped a picture of his Russian partner asleep on the deck. He only knew the Russian by his first name, Maxim. But he knew Maxim was using a shadowy network to get the chips for the Russian defense industry.

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Zelensky to Putin: "Good Lord, what do you want? Leave our land. If you don't want to leave now, sit down with me at the negotiating table. But not from 30 meters away, like with Macron and Scholz. Sit down with me and talk. What are you afraid of? We're no threat to anyone."

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Huge rally in Georgia – invaded by Russia in 2008 – in solidarity with Ukraine tonight

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A woman burst onto Russia’s main live evening newscast today with a sign that says: “Stop the war Don’t believe propaganda They’re lying to you” And chanting: “Stop the war! No to war!”

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Putin just said the west is trying to "cancel" Russia

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Fiona Hill actually tried to get Arnold made the US ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, thinking he was one of the few people who could talk sense into Putin. Judging by this, he’d have done a hell of a job.

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Just unbelievable scenes in Minsk as a huge crowd chants “Resign!” via @Belsat_TV

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It’s too early to say what the Russian people make of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but he’s already lost a few celebrities. Most of these guys rely heavily on the state for their living. A short thread.

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Some Russians are protesting Putin's attack on Ukraine despite a total ban on protesting and immediate heavy crackdowns from riot police. Here's a gathering of about 200 in St Petersburg

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Russian TikTokers practicing their English to avoid getting arrested during Navalny protests. “If they try to throw you into the paddy wagon, you say, ‘You are violating my human rights!’”

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Russians in Moscow are lining up to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at a memorial to Gulag victims outside the FSB headquarters. Given the extent to which the Kremlin has suppressed all dissent since invading Ukraine, this is a not insignificant crowd.

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Толпы людей пришли почтить память Алексея Навального в Москве — несмотря на холод и задержания Видео: SOTAvision

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Russia has given Ukraine until 5am to surrender Mariupol, after which it says it'll let the 130,000 remaining civilians leave. The language it uses for Kyiv's forces – "nationalists," "foreign mercenaries," "bandits" – leaves little doubt about what Russia has in store for them.

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Zelensky warns Russia will storm Kyiv tonight in “vile, cruel and inhuman” fashion. “We have to persevere tonight. The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now. The night will be hard, very hard, but there will be a morning,

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It’s Russian Orthodox Christmas today, and Putin is spending it alone in the Kremlin at a service seemingly not attended by anyone else

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Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that

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Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.

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Unbelievable video. The Ukrainian guy asks them if they want him to tow them back to Russia

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Multiple videos on social media of Russian military out of fuel, food and stuck on highways

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Unprecedented number of young Russians who've known no president but Putin came to protest him today. This looks like being the iconic shot

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Navalny's wife Yulia at the Munich security conference: "If it's true, I want Putin, his entourage, Putin's friends and his government to know they will be held responsible for what they have done to our country, my family, and my husband. And that day will come very soon."

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Zelensky speaks to the nation. He says he's declared martial law and urges Ukrainians to stay home. “We are working. The army is working," he says. "Don't panic. We are strong. We are ready for everything. We will defeat everyone. Because we are Ukraine.”

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Zelensky posts a video showing him and his top allies in the Kyiv government district. “We’re defending our independence and our country, and that’s how it’ll be.”

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Putin claims Prigozhin’s plane crashed because the Wagner leadership got drunk and/or high, then set off hand grenades during the flight. Seems legit, definitely no further questions about that incident, we can all move on

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The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports

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Russia's defense ministry posted this video of a ship launching missiles on Ukraine and said it hit "all the assigned targets." Guess that must include the children's playground, park, sidewalks, cars, and pedestrian bridges they bombed today

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Russian deputy defense minister Yunus-Bek Evkurov gave a soldier who lost a leg fighting in Ukraine a medal yesterday and told him: “I hope you’ll get back on your feet”

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Zelensky speaks to Russians again. "Tonight you began bombing residential areas in the hero city of Kyiv. This is like 1941. I want to tell all Russian citizens who are coming out to protest: we hear you, you heard us, you started to believe us. Fight for us. Fight the war."

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Finnish PM @MarinSanna : “It’s not right that at the same time as Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists. It’s not right.”

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Finland and Estonia urge EU to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians

Helsinki says Russians are entering the country and then using its airports to fly elsewhere in the bloc

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The anti-war protester who crashed the news broadcast is Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, says @pchikov , whose legal defense foundation is going to defend her against charges of “discrediting the Russian armed forces.” She’s already at the police station.

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Morgenshtern, Russia's biggest rapper, has released an anti-war music video. It ends with a voice message from his Ukrainian producer's mother talking about surviving life under Russian airstrikes.

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Lavrov says Putin will sign a decree restricting entry into Russia for citizens of "unfriendly countries" in response to western sanctions. That's the US, the UK, Canada, all of Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and a few others besides.

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Putin meets UN secretary general António Guterres in the Kremlin. The long table is back!

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Chechens continue to lead the way among Russia’s forces in Ukraine of producing snazzy videos in which they don’t actually do anything

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In 882, Rurik's successor Prince Oleg, who was playing the role of regent for Rurik’s young son because Rurik had died by then, came to Kyiv. He ousted two brothers who, apparently, had once been members of Rurik's retinue. So, Russia began to develop with two centers of power…

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Zelensky also met with his defense minister today. But the vibe was rather different

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Russia’s deputy defense minister says Moscow has decided to “fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernigiv” in order to “increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine.”

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Ovsyannikova also appears to have recorded a video beforehand in which she blames Putin for the war and apologizes for her work on Russian state TV news.

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Russia has sanctioned Joe Biden and a range of other top US officials. The main impact of this is they can now make corny jokes on cable news about how they won't be able to access their Russian bank accounts or go on vacation in Siberia, I guess

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If you didn't believe the Ukrainian intercept of a Russian soldier's wife telling him to rape Ukrainian women, here both of them are on record confirming it's true. Amazing work

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🧵/link in last tweet. "C’mon there, rape Ukrainian women and don’t tell me anything. Just don’t forget about contraception!". People were shocked with this conversation between Russian soldier and his wife, tapped by SBU in Kherson region. Together with @cxemu we found them.

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More than 47,000 people - double the number of a few weeks ago - protested in Moscow today. The Kremlin’s attempts to kill the pro-democracy movement are only making it stronger

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For those of you new to this media environment. The main sources of info are an army that lies about everything; a warlord who owns an infamous troll factory and lied about it for years; and the Kremlin. And Russia destroyed the media, so there aren't any good independent sources

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There were a good dozen of these guys, including one dressed as a general, sat next to us. they absolutely hated it. They grumbled about the many inaccuracies throughout and told other viewers to watch the Soviet film of War and Peace, which has superb Napoleonic battle scenes

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At the movies

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Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's lead negotiator, says there is a "strange situation" as regards Moscow's demands to "denazify" Ukraine. "The Ukrainian delegation think there aren't any Nazi groups in Ukraine and that it's not a thing in modern Ukraine."

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It says much about how drastically the invasion of Ukraine has reshaped Russia that Margarita Simonyan basically admitted Russia did the Salisbury poisonings today and barely anyone batted an eyelid

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@PentagonPresSec But the next nine minutes, in which Zelensky addressed Russians directly, were absolutely astonishing. A powerful, dignified, mature, and heartfelt appeal for peace between Russians and Ukrainians that couldn't have been any more different from Putin's resentful rant.

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Insane footage on Russian social media from Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region, where there have been several anti-Semitic protests this weekend. A crowd of people, some with Palestinian flags, broke into the airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.

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I think this is the first major admission of how taken aback Moscow was by western sanctions. Lavrov: "When they [froze] the central bnak reserves, nobody who was predicting what sanctions the west would pass could have pictured that. It's just thievery."

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Putin’s justifications for the war in Ukraine: – “the main goal is to help people” – “we were forced to do it” – “we couldn’t put up with it any longer” – “a clash was inevitable” – “it was just a matter of time” – “we didn’t have a choice, this was the right thing to do”

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@tass_agency Putin: "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country, but leaders of major Nato countries are making aggressive statements about our country. So I order to move Russia's deterrence forces to a special regime of duty."

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Video of the US and Russia swapping former marine Trevor Reed, formerly imprisoned in Russia, for convicted drug smuggler Alexei Yaroshenko on a runway in Turkey. Real bridge of spies Cold War vibes

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@PentagonPresSec Zelensky speaks to the nation. The gravity of the situation looks to have really gotten to him. "Today I initiated a phone conversation with the president of the Russian Federation. The result was silence. Although it's the Donbas where there should be silence."

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At least a thousand Russian national guardsmen are disobeying orders to go fight into Ukraine, wary of meeting the same fate as others wiped out in the war’s early days. ⁦ @polinaivanovva ⁩ reports:

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Russian guardsmen case reveals dissent in security force over invasion of Ukraine

Twelve members of Rosgvardia were sacked for refusing to join the invasion

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I think this is the first instance of a Russian official speaking out about the war in Ukraine

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Two hours and hundreds of arrests later, there are still thousands of people stretching a mile in each direction in Moscow. This must be the biggest anti-Putin rally in years. People I spoke to weren’t necessarily political before, but what Russia did to Navalny infuriated them

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Some positivity

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Kyiv never anything less than gorgeous in the summer

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The footage streaming in from Minsk, in spite of an internet blockade and reports the army has been deployed against protesters, is just incredible

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Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol looks like this, according to Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram channel

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Contrast Putin's speech with Zelensky's today: "Very soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine. And someone won't have any. We won then. We will win now. And Khreshchatyk will see the victory parade – the Victory of Ukraine!"

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Putin tells Xi Jinping that Russia “understands your questions and concerns” about Ukraine. Does that mean… China has some?

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Naturally Putin was sitting a healthy 15 feet away from Shoigu and Gerasimov at the end of a ridiculously long table when he told them to get the nukes out

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The ruble, which was already at a historic low, down almost 30% so far. Russia's central bank is pushing back trading several hours ahead of what is likely an even bigger crash. We are truly in uncharted territory here.

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Russia's central bank is more than doubling interest rates to 20% before markets open!

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Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium, which hosted the World Cup final in 2018, is packed out for a pro-war rally on the anniversary of Russia’s Crimea annexation. Lots of reports of state employees being bussed in. They’re watching a video with Ukrainian flags being thrown to the ground

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the way Putin casually humiliates one of his most prominent and sympathetic interlocutors in the west here, after state media and the Kremlin spent ages praising him, is just brutal. Classic cheap power move

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46 minutes into his history lesson, Putin stops to mock Tucker for applying to the CIA when he was younger and getting rejected.

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A poignant moment as Navalny draws a heart on the glass of his cage for his wife, Yulia.

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After heroically doing nothing to suppress Prigozhin's mutiny yesterday, Kadyrov's Chechen special forces are going back to heroically not fight in the invasion of Ukraine

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Even by the devastating standards of Russia's war in Ukraine, what's going on in Mariupol right now is pure horror. @GuyChazan spoke to survivors – and his story is free to read

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‘Hell on earth’: survivors recount the assault on Mariupol | Free to read

Residents who escaped from besieged Ukrainian port depict harrowing conditions for civilians

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"In view of the ongoing events I can no longer associate myself with my government, and will have to resign my position." Think this is the first instance of a Russian official quitting over the war in Ukraine

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Russian World Bank adviser quits in protest at invasion of Ukraine

Boris Lvin says he can ‘no longer associate myself with my government’

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Russian state TV: “Our submarines alone can launch more than 500 nuclear warheads, which guarantees the destruction of the US and NATO for good measure. The principle is: why do we need the world if Russia won’t be in it?”

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Киселев: "Всего наши подлодки способны выпустить более полутысячи ядерных боеголовок, что гарантированно уничтожают страны США и НАТО впридачу. Это по принципу: зачем нам мир, если в нем не будет России"

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Putin is meeting defense minister Shoigu and chief of general staff Gerasimov in the Kremlin. He says western sanctions are "illegitimate" and has ordered to place Russia's deterrence – i.e. nuclear – forces on "a special regime of duty," per @tass_agency

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Good lord. In Bucha, one of the towns near Kyiv that Russia recently withdrew from, Ukrainian forces found a mass grave with nearly 300 people in it and dozens of civilians lying dead in the streets. Pure horror.

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"What's happening in Ukraine is a crime, and Russia is the aggressor. The responsibility for this aggression lies with one man: Vladimir Putin. My father is Ukrainian, my mother is Russian, and they were never enemies. This necklace [shows] Russia must stop this fratricidal war."

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Russia will treat western arms shipments to Ukraine as legitimate military targets, deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov says. "We warned [the US] of consequences from the insane transfer to Ukraine of weapons like mobile anti-aircraft systems, anti-tank missiles, and so on."

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"We didn't say anything in 2014 when it only just began. We didn't protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny. We just silently watched this inhuman regime. Now the whole world has turned away from us, and ten generations of our descendants won't wash off this fratricidal war."

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Another day in Russia, via @bazabazon

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"Unfortunately, for the last few years I've been working for Channel One. I've been doing Kremlin propaganda and I'm very ashamed of it – that I let people lie from TV screens and allowed the Russian people to be zombified."

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Huge story from ⁦ @Dimi ⁩: US officials claim Russia is already running out of some equipment less than three weeks into the war in Ukraine, and has asked China for help

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Russia has asked China for military help in Ukraine, US officials say

White House fears move is sign of ever closer ties between Beijing and Moscow

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@tass_agency This isn't the first time this week Shoigu has looked visibly uncomfortable at the orders he's taking from Putin

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To give you an idea of how sweeping the wartime censorship laws are in Russia: Novaya Gazeta, Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov’s paper, published a picture of Ovsyannikova’s protest that looks like this

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@polinaivanovva @JohnReedwrites After Russia invaded today, the FT is making our key Ukraine coverage free to read, as we did with the Covid-19 pandemic. Follow this page for all the latest

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⚡️The Kremlin says the DNR and LNR have asked Putin to “help beat back the aggression of the Ukrainian armed forces to avoid victims among the civilian population and a humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbas”, per Russian wires. This could be it.

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Another Russian MP speaks out against the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks he thought he was just voting to save the DNR and LNR. He claims the Kremlin hid its real plans from lawmakers. Not clear what he thought the 190,000 troops on the border were doing

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"We must defend Russian culture from western colonialist hegemony" *sings ripoff of a TikTok sea shanty meme from two years ago*

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Locals in Melitopol, a southern Ukrainian town captured by Russia, protest against the reported kidnapping of their mayor. Video via Zelensky’s office

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Alexei Navalny was buried to the soundtrack from his favorite movie, Terminator 2 – the scene where @Schwarzenegger sinks into the vat of molten metal and gives a thumbs up

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Here's video of Putin suddenly vanishing mid-sentence. Where is he?!

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Huge shift from Germany: “The Russian attack marks a turning point. It is our duty to do our best to help Ukraine defend against the invading army of Putin. That's why we're supplying 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 stinger missiles to our friends in Ukraine.”

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Der russische Überfall markiert eine Zeitenwende. Es ist unsere Pflicht, die Ukraine nach Kräften zu unterstützen bei der Verteidigung gegen die Invasionsarmee von #Putin . Deshalb liefern wir 1000 Panzerabwehrwaffen und 500 Stinger-Raketen an unsere Freunde in der #Ukraine .

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Putin the good tsar has a go at the bad boyars for mobilizing the wrong people into the army. “We must correct mistakes and not allow them going forward,” he says, and everyone who doesn’t meet the criteria “must be sent home.” Shows the Kremlin is anxious about the backlash

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People in Moscow shouting "No to war!"

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Сейчас в Москве. Люди скандируют «Нет войне!».

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Putin is hailing Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol after his forces completely destroyed during a two-month siege. He told defense minister Sergei Shoigu to block off the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up, "so that a fly can't get in."

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Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva: “I hope this all ends as soon as possible, like a bad dream.”

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Talks between Russia and Ukraine are set to begin at this table later today, the Belarusian foreign ministry says.

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Maxim Galkin, singer and husband of Alla Pugacheva, Russia’s biggest celebrity: “I’ve been talking to friends and relatives from Ukraine since early morning! I can’t find the words to say what I feel! How can this be possible! There can be no justification for war! No to war!”

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None of them are protesting or mentioning Putin by name. But even stuff like this can get you banned from state TV for life.

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New details on Ukraine's ceasefire talks with Russia: – Ukraine has to give up on Nato but will be free to join the EU – Russia is no longer demanding "denazification" – "demilitarization" and Russian language are not part of the possible deal either

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Russia no longer requesting Ukraine be ‘denazified’ as part of ceasefire talks

Requests include Kyiv dropping Nato pursuit in exchange for security guarantees and EU membership

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I can't overstate how unprecedented this is. The ruble was at 25 to the dollar pre-2014 and 60 after the oil crash that year. Most Russians don't have savings. 20m are in poverty. Migrants send remittances to Central Asia. It's ordinary people who will really suffer.

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Lukashenko, addressing his security council, points to a map of Ukraine that shows what look like planned troop movements, infrastructure targets, and the country divided into four parts

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Ivan Urgant, Russia’s equivalent of Steven Colbert (who was once on his show): “Fear and pain. NO to war.”

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Putin speaking to his security council. "I will never abandon my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people [...] but the way the battle is going shows we are fighting neo-Nazis." He claims Ukraine is using civilians and foreigners as "human shields."

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Looks like Liz Truss’ Moscow trip has not gone down well with Lavrov, who said UK diplomats came “unprepared” to their meeting and said it was “like a mute talking to a deaf person”

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Zelensky says Ukraine wants peace but can't negotiate in Belarus, which Russia is currently using to attack it. "Warsaw, Istanbul, Baku – we offered Russia to hold talks in these cities, or any other city where missiles aren't being launched at Ukraine," he says.

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