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Two years after Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine, and after a series of embarrassing battlefield setbacks, the tide my be starting to turn in his favour. But is he actually winning?

A timeline of global headlines that shaped the year

If you like to sled, you have to like to drag the sled

If you like to sled, you have to like to drag the sled

 

From Putin's point of view every critical journalist is a "traitor". Putin has also called the Wagner boss Prigozhin, who has now probably died in a plane

After his failed rebellion, most Russians were probably surprised this hadn't happened sooner.

Sergei Markov, a stern supporter of the Russian president and formerly a close advisor, said it was absolutely clear that Prigozhin [was] killed by [the] Ukrainian intelligence service.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today joked about feared Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin being apparently killed in a plane crash near Moscow while denying Kyivs involvement.

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained at the camps where they had stayed before a short-lived mutiny against Moscow, the president of Belarus said.