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The Guardian view on Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

Editorial: A desperate prime minister has given up trying to meaningfully account for the money he is putting into pre-election promises

The Guardian - UK

What Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin shows, and what it hides

Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.

WEKU

Igor Strelkov: Moscow targets a pro-war Russian who criticised Putin

Igor Strelkov raged against the president after the Wagner mutiny, and could now face years in jail.

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Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson

Russian shelling has damaged a landmark church in the city of Kherson that once held the remains of the renowned 18th-century commander who exerted Russian control through the southeast parts of moedern Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula

The Independent UK

Mariupol’s exiled leaders look to the future with plans to rebuild

Ukrainian mayor says there is no time to waste in drawing up vision for devastated city, which is now under Russian control

The Guardian - UK

Buoyed by southern success, Ukraine revives long-shot dream of retaking Crimea

ODESA, Ukraine — Beneath a chill, low-lying fog, the Black Sea has gone winter-gray. The craggy coast of Crimea, illegally seized from Ukraine by Russia nearly nine years ago, lies far from this southern stretch of seashore — yet, to many here, the strategic peninsula suddenly seems tantalizingly close.

Los Angeles Times

Russia evacuates Kherson and takes remains of cultural icon ahead of ‘withdrawal from the area’

A special team was sent to St Catherine’s Cathedral to remove the bones of Potemkin, the long-term lover of Catherine the Great

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Russia says 82,000 conscripts from emergency draft already in Ukraine

Ministry of Defence says Russia relying on ‘poorly trained force’ as Kremlin seeks to consolidate gains

The Guardian - UK

Russian forces steal remains of national icon Potemkin from grave in Kherson OLD

Both Ukraine and Russia preparing for key battle for control of Kherson

The Independent UK

Ukraine war: Putin announces annexation of four regions, but his hold on them may be flimsy

Vladimir Putin has formally signed a treaty annexing four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. The Russian president announced, at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square, that the incorporation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, in the south and east of Ukraine, into Russia is the “choice of millions of…

The Conversation

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what would later become part of Ukraine. Grigory Potemkin had workers build a façade showing a prosperous village along the riverbanks, visible from passing…

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