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EXCLUSIVE: If Ukraine started to threaten Moscow's control of Crimea, if NATO sealed off the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, if the Wagner Group eyed venturing beyond Belarus into neighbouring Poland or Lithuania... potential flashpoints for escalation stretch from the Black Sea to the Arctic.
EXCLUSIVE: The Ukrainian military commander-in-chief has acknowledged that progress of the spring counteroffensive has been 'slower than desired' - but what is really going on?
Medvedev, who is now the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, threatened retaliatory attacks on both Ukrainian and other European nuclear facilities.
The disruptions in Russia caused by the Wagner leader appear to have settled down. (At least for now.) But the situation has left many analysts of Russian affairs conflicted about what happens next. A...
Both President Vladimir Putin, and Russia itself, have been shown to be far weaker than they would like to pretend to be, writes Keir Giles. “What the Wagner showdown demonstrates is that now is the time to redouble support to Ukraine.”