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Zelenskyy lashed out at Russia, accusing it of «weaponising» food and energy and attacking children during the war in Ukraine reported the New York Post. Zelenskyy framed Russia's war on his country as an attack on the «international order» and urged the world leaders to «act united to defeat the aggressor» «Let unity decide everything openly,» Zelenskyy said. «While Russia is pushing the world to the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after Russian aggression no one in the world will dare to attack any nation.». «Weaponization must be restrained, war crimes must be punished, deported people must come back home and the occupier must return to their own land.

Telegram, was detained in Paris. The analysts believe that the Kremlin may take advantage of the global uproar to target one of the few platforms that has escaped censorship. According to George Barros of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank, the 39-year-old Durov left the nation in 2014 after he allegedly refused to turn over the encryption keys, and the Kremlin has been attempting to obtain Telegram for years to expand its power to censor and control the content on the app.

Russia has sent so many men to join its war in Ukraine that crime levels in the country fell soon after the invasion began. Now their return is starting to unleash a wave of offending. Crimes committed by servicemen that aren’t linked to the war increased by more than 20% last year, according to data from Russia’s Supreme Court. While the overall numbers are still small and many returning servicemembers don’t go onto commit offenses, there was a jump in cases of violent crimes as well as thefts and drug-related transgressions. The figures exclude crimes involving tens of thousands of convicts released from jail to join the war under a program set up by the late Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Those who survived six months at the front were able to gain a pardon from President Vladimir Putin and return to Russia as free men.

Vladimir Putin has been quietly signaling that he is open to a ceasefire in Ukraine despite publicly refusing to back down from the ongoing conflict between the two nations, The New York Times reported. The United Nations reported that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed and over 18,500 injured since the war began between Russia and Ukraine. Former senior Russian officials close to the Kremlin and other American and international officials said Putin has been signaling since September that he is open to stopping the fight at the current boundary lines, as per NYT reports.

war isn't just looming over Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine. Nope, they're spreading like wildfire, hitting everywhere from Afghanistan to Yemen, Africa to Southeast Asia.

Putin has moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia.

Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the country's 2024 presidential election for March 17, moving Vladimir Putin a step closer to a fifth term in office. Members of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, voted unanimously to approve a decree setting the date. «In essence, this decision marks the start of the election campaign,» said Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council. Russia's central election commission is to hold a meeting on the presidential campaign on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of “volunteer units” fighting in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of “volunteer units” fighting in Ukraine

As the U.S. and Russia vie for greater influence in Africa, Moscow is seeking access for its warships to a Mediterranean port in Libya that could expand its naval footprint in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s backyard. Senior Russian officials, including Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, met with Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar in recent weeks to discuss long-term docking rights in areas he controls in the war-torn country’s east, according to Libyan officials and advisers.

Security groups loyal to the Kremlin are moving to take control of Wagner’s military forces in Ukraine and Africa in the wake of the death of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Mercenary groups with ties to Russian security forces and oligarchs close to the Kremlin are moving to absorb thousands of Wagner soldiers. In doing so, the Kremlin is seeking to commandeer experienced troops for the war in Ukraine and retain the influence Wagner had earned in parts of Africa.

BRICS last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the real drama was being played out elsewhere. On one hand, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin was virtually addressing his counterparts, there came news that a private aircraft carrying Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed in Russia, killing all 10 people on board.

Kremlin said on Wednesday that the investigation into the plane crash which killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others last week included the possibility that it was caused deliberately. «It is obvious that different versions are being considered, including the version — you know what we are talking about — let's say, a deliberate atrocity,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov also said that the probe into the plane crash was a Russian investigation, and that there could be no question of an international investigation.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, experienced a drop below $26,000 in the past day, but quickly recovered above, settling around $26,070. 

Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules «at the moment», the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards were among 10 people who died when the Embraer Legacy 600 crashed north of Moscow last week. He died two months to the day after staging a brief mutiny against the Russian defense establishment that posed the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin's rule since he rose to power in 1999. Brazil's Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA), in the interests of improving aviation safety, had said it would join a Russian-led investigation if it were invited and the probe held under international rules. Russia's aviation authority was not obligated to say yes to CENIPA, but some former investigators said it should, as the U.S. and other Western governments suspect the Kremlin of being behind the Aug.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, ending a tumultuous journey from St. Petersburg street thug to Kremlin-financed mercenary leader, following a suspicious plane crash two months after his brief mutiny that challenged the authority of President Vladimir Putin.

mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash last week, a farewell service was held for him, a report by news agency AP said on Tuesday citing Wagner spokespeople’s statement. Those who wish to bid their farewell to the 62-year-old mercenary leader should go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, his hometown, the report said citing the statement.

Vladimir Putin «must have killed» Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine, CNN reported. Johnson wrote in an op-ed, speculating about Prigozhin's last moments, a few days after a plane carrying the Wagner boss crashed in a field northwest of Moscow. The reason behind the plane crash remains uncertain, but the US and Western intelligence officials told CNN that it was deliberate. «It can't have been more than a few seconds between the explosion aboard the otherwise reliable Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, and the moment the Russian thug blacked out in his vertiginous acceleration to earth; and yet in that instant I am certain that he knew with perfect clarity what had happened,» Johnson wrote, according to CNN. «He knew whose hidden hand was sending him 28,000 ft down, to be immolated with the rest of his Wagner group companions in a fireball in the countryside of the Tver region north of Moscow — and then on downwards, of course, for the shade of Prigozhin: down, down to Hades and the Tartarean pit below.» The former UK PM went on to say that the man allegedly «behind the killing of Prigozhin» was «the very same man who authorised, for instance, the poisonings in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal.» «As the detonation sucked the air out of the aircraft's cabin, I would wager that the last thought in the doomed dome of Prigozhin's skull was 'Putin!', preceded by one of the many profanities in which the former jailbird and hotdog salesman was so fluent,» Johnson wrote, as reported by CNN. Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash exactly two months after he instigated a brief uprising in Russia. Wheth

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week.

Yevgeny Prigozhin comes exactly two months after he led a short-lived mutiny against Moscow. The Western leaders spoke about Russia's hand in the plane crash, but the accusations were rejected by the Russian authorities who called it an “absolute lie." "There is now a great deal of speculation surrounding this plane crash and the tragic deaths of the plane's passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was confirmed dead on Sunday by Russia's Investigatice Committee after a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confident catapulted to infamy by the offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia's capital. Prigozhin's order in June that his private fighting group march on Moscow to unseat Russia's top brass presented the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin's hold on power over more than two-decades. His forces captured a key military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russian before setting their course for Moscow, where authorities beefed up security in anticipation of a showdown. «The evil that the military leadership of the country brings must be stopped,» Prigozhin announced after claiming the defence ministry had launched strikes on Wagner bases. But the failed bid ended with Putin ultimately offering exile in neighbouring Belarus to the mutineers and Prigozhin, who then appeared in footage vowing to make Africa «freer» and suggested he was on the continent. Before Putin, who accused Prigozhin of treason, ordered troops to Ukraine in February last year, the 62-year-old mercenary head dispatched fighters from his private force to conflicts in the Middle East and Africa but always denied involvement. That changed last year when he announced himself as the founder of the Wagner group and began a mass recruitment drive at Russia's prisons for foot soldiers to fight in exchange for an amnesty. — Bitter top brass rivalry — He gained public acclaim as Wagner spearheaded the capture of several key Ukrainian towns including Bakhmut.