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Russia's FSB arrests eight for Crimean Bridge bombing

Russia's Federal Security Service said on Wednesday that it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia in connection with the bombing of a vital bridge to Crimea, an attack it said was masterminded by Ukraine.

Reuters

Bridge too far: Why blast on key Crimea link bodes ill for Russia

Attack damages strategic supply and logistics route for Russian forces, but it was a huge boost to Ukrainian morale.

Al Jazeera

Putin Orders More Security for Crimea Bridge, Energy Supplies

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered tighter security for the bridge from Russia to Crimea as well as the infrastructure supplying electricity and natural gas to the peninsula, Interfax said. In a decree issued hours after the bridge was damaged by a blast, Putin said the FSB security service…

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How ‘street justice’ and retribution complicate the war in Ukraine

Collaborators with Russian forces are being brought to justice – but not always through official means, as Kim Sengupta explains from Kramatorsk

The Independent UK

‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters

Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu

The Guardian - UK

The killing of Russia's Dugina: who did it?

Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist ideologue, was killed on Aug. 20 when a car bomb ripped through the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving.

Reuters

Welsh spy whose body was found in a bag was killed by the Kremlin, claims ex MP

The death of Gareth Williams has remained a mystery ever since the spy's body was found naked in a bag padlocked from the outside

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Sergey Kiriyenko, the ‘Viceroy of the Donbas’ who helped launch Putin’s career

He is a man of many names: “Kinder Surprise”, after the popular chocolate eggs given to children throughout Europe, “the little human computer”, “Nuke Surprise”, but Sergey Kiriyenko’s front-row seat during Vladimir Putin’s contested annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday inspired his latest nickname: “Viceroy of the Donbas”. Who…

France 24

The most complained about roads for potholes in Greater Manchester

A study reveals complaints to councils are soaring

Manchester Evening News

Russia probing damage to Nord Stream pipelines as 'international terrorism' -Ifax

Russia's FSB security service is investigating the damage sustained by the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea as "international terrorism", the Interfax news agency cited the general prosecutor's office as saying on Wednesday.

Reuters

‘We didn’t want to be part of the war’: Russians at the Georgia border flee Putin’s call-up

Families, exhausted and bewildered, are queuing for hours at Russia’s borders to escape mobilisation

The Guardian - UK

Japan Protests Russia’s Expulsion of Official, Denies Spying

Japan protested to Russia on Tuesday over the detention of a Japanese consulate official on espionage allegations, denying the allegations and accusing Russian authorities of abusive interrogation. The official was detained on Sept. 22 and interrogated with his eyes covered, his hands and head pressed and immobilized, Japan's Foreign Ministry…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Japan consul ‘blindfolded and restrained’ during FSB interrogation in Russia

Tokyo demands apology from Moscow after diplomat subjected to ‘coercive interrogation’ in Vladivostok

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Sweden launches sabotage investigation after explosions reported near Nord Stream pipelines – as it happened

Swedish seismologists says blasts detected near gas pipelines, which are leaking into Baltic sea

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Japan protests Russia's expulsion of official, denies spying

Japan has protested to Russia over the detention of a Japanese consulate official on espionage allegations, denying the allegations and accusing Russian authorities of abusive interrogation

Al Jazeera

Japan lodges protest after Russia detains diplomat in Vladivostok

Tatsunori Motoki, accused of spying by Russia’s FSB, was released after a few hours and ordered to leave the country.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'will be killed by own allies' if he tries to use nuclear weapons - expert

In a televised address earlier this week, the Russian leader appeared to suggest that conflict in Ukraine could spiral into a nuclear crisis - he also announced a partial military mobilisation, with 300,000 reservists set to be called up

The Guardian - UK

Putin needs nothing short of a miracle to avoid a devastating defeat in Ukraine

Troops melting away and Russians fleeing abroad to avoid mobilisation doesn’t augur well for Putin’s latest gamble, says researcher Olga Chyzh

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‘No way I could work for the Russians’: the Ukrainian teachers resisting occupation

Staff forced to choose between collaborating or fighting against Russian takeover of schools

Reuters

The man embroiled in Russia and Ukraine’s propaganda war over a nuclear plant

A former deputy spokesman at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant who helped tell the world that Russian troops had seized the strategic site, is now in exile, no longer in his job and, according to a document from his ex-employer, is suspected by Ukrainian intelligence of collaborating with Russia.

Daily Mirror

City has a secret second underground network built by its paranoid leader

Unofficial reports and intelligence from the US has suggested that there is a secret second underground network, titled Metro-2, beneath the streets of Russian capital Moscow

Reuters

Russia says it detains man suspected of sending military aircraft photos to Ukraine

Russia detained a top manager of an aviation factory on suspicion of passing secret military information to Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing the FSB federal security agency.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s TV propagandist refuses to explain abrasion and bruising on his face

Russian anchorman Vladimir Solovyov, who regularly advocates nuking Britain, angrily refused to be drawn on how he sustained a cut above his left eyebrow and facial bruising

Daily Mirror

Russian commanders facing large-scale mutiny as regiment refuses to fight and Moscow loses ground

Spooks from Moscow’s feared GRU and FSB intelligence agencies are trying to quell a rebellion by soldiers of the 127th Regiment of the First Army Corps for a second time

The Guardian - UK

Russian journalist facing 24-year jail term for treason refuses to sign ‘confession’

Ivan Safronov could be handed record sentence after being tried on secret evidence behind closed doors

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