Vladimir Putin Russia, Ukraine war

Vladimir Kara-Murza's wife Evgenia says Russian president will fall over war in Ukraine.

And I brought him back to the US. He recovered and then he went back to Russia. Everything – speaking and being on stage, speaking to journalists – is very new to me. Kara-Murza said that since the war started Russia had switched from being an authoritarian regime to a totalitarian one. “Thanks to an amazing independent investigation by Bellingcat and Insider, we now know the names and the faces of those people from the FSB, who had followed him before the poisoning. “He was targeted by an FSB team that tried to kill him twice in 2015 and 2017. On the basis of the charges laid so far Vladimir is now facing up to 10 years.”

Evgenia Kara-Murza, whose husband Vladimir was arrested in Moscow in April, said he may have reason to fear for his life.

"And there are no more media outlets in Russia that can talk about it." "That is important to say it out loud... She could not immediately be reached for further comment.

The outcome of Russia's attacks on the Donetsk and Luhansk areas will determine the fate of the rest of Ukraine.

Since the Russians withdrew at the beginning of April, there has been no artillery threat, and no repeat of the booms from the suburbs that characterised the first weeks of the war. The occasional air raid siren and men with guns on the streets are reminders of the war, but cafe terraces are busy, the opera has reopened and the curfew has been pushed back to 11pm. Last Thursday, areas within the city limits were shelled for the first time in two weeks and nine civilians died, according to local authorities. Now, there is talk of rapid annexation of the parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces that Russia took in the first days of the invasion. Ukraine will not accept the loss of these areas, but if it launches a counterattack, Russia could claim Ukraine was attacking Russian territory. Last week, the focus was on the city of Sievierodonetsk, where local governor Serhiy Haidai said Russia had committed 10,000 soldiers and an extra 2,500 pieces of equipment to attacking the city.

Vladimir Putin's forces have been hammering Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, with artillery as ground troops take more and more small villages across the ...

Tyab watched as women wove together camouflage netting to cover vehicles and troops on the battlefield. Valentyna Kryvda said she and the others were doing anything they could to help. Vladimir Putin's forces have been hammering Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, with artillery as ground troops take more and more small villages across the Donbas region.

Russian forces advanced Sunday in the industrial hub of Severdonetsk, Ukraine's military said. Analysts say Moscow controls most of the region.

Poland’s aspiration, he said, is to not need to rely on the United States to help protect its land under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Poland shares a land border with Ukraine, and several Russian missile attacks have hit within miles of the country. Authorities were working to help miners at two sites in Toretsk, a city slightly south of those districts: 112 at the Tsentralnaya mine and three at a nearby facility. Erdogan added that he would have separate telephone conversations Monday with the Ukrainian and Russian presidents. We need to be much more powerful. Oleksandr Sereda, deputy commander of Chernihiv’s border guards, recently told The Washington Post that soldiers are preparing for “a possible reinvasion.” “He did not work to secure the city from the first days of the full-scale war and only thought of himself. Russia “does not stop conducting offensive operations” in the eastern battlefront, Ukraine’s military said in a daily update. Ukrainian authorities have accused Russia of trucking stolen grain to the Russian border and to Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Maxar said its pictures probably show the Matros Pozynich, a bulk carrier that sails under the Russian flag, according to global shipping trackers. Some stumbled out the back doors and collapsed into wheelchairs as staffers rushed to push them inside. Oleksandr Sereda, deputy commander of Chernihiv’s border guards, recently told The Washington Post that soldiers are preparing for “a possible reinvasion.”

Quentin Sommerville describes relentless artillery bombardment in Donbas ahead of Russian forces entering Severodonetsk.

"There is a sky, and the sky is ours. Footage given to the BBC by a unit of the National Guard shows a landscape there which could be a recreation of World War Two devastation - lines of shelled-out houses, empty streets with only corpses and dead animals along the pathways. But, for the weary Ukrainian defenders facing the Russian onslaught, that is unthinkable. Even for experienced fighters, the volume and nature of Russian weaponry being used is Donbas is overwhelming. Since the start of the war, military analysts have made much of Russia's rising casualty numbers and the weakness of morale among its soldiers. So it's basically a sniper with one bullet and they send like $1,000 of artillery rounds. There were a lot of losses - a lot of fighting across streets. Looking from Lysychansk into the distance, there is now a blot on the emerald green landscape. If Severodonetsk and Lysychansk fall, the whole of Luhansk would be occupied. The air carried on the summer breeze is gritty with dust from smoke and pulverised buildings. President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Ukraine was losing 50-100 troops a day in the region. A few people still go out on the streets, but they are mostly deserted.