Putin Sends Russia's Defense Minister a Warning Shot
by Newsweek
Newsweek— Russia's deputy defense minister was arrested Tuesday evening on bribery charges, but some analysts have speculated the detainment of Timur Ivanov was a warning to his boss, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.Russian President Vladimir Putin "doesn't sign off on that [arrest] unless he's sending a message to Shoigu, one that reads something along the lines of 'that could have been you,'" David Silbey, associate professor of history at Cornell and director of teaching and learning at Cornell in...
Daily Mail—Russia will sink Britain under a nuclear tidal wave and reduce the US to 'radioactive ash' if NATO sends troops into Ukraine, top Putin propagandist warns. Any bid by the West to put boots on the ground in Ukraine to 'inflict a strategic defeat on Russia' would result in Armageddon, warned Dmitry Kiselyov.
The Independent—Russia Ukraine war live: Kyiv’s troops forced back by intense fighting in east as Putin’s soldiers advance. Ukrainian troops have fallen back to new positions west of Berdychi and Semenivka near Avdiivka
The Independent—Ukraine-Russia war live: Kyiv’s troops forced back by intense fighting in east as Putin’s soldiers advance. Putin's forces have targeted a hotel housing “English-speaking mercenaries” fighting in Ukraine, Russian state media claimed.