“Nowadays there’s more people who support the war, but even they’re tired of it. They just want peace.”
Daniil who runs the YouTube channel, 1420, has been interviewing the Russian public about the war in Ukraine. Times Radio reporter, Jo Crawford, spoke to him to find out what Russians really think about Putin.
(Hear what convicts fighting for Russia are saying about the war)
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CNN's Frederik Pleitgen talks to two convicts in Ukrainian custody who were recruited by Wagner to fight for Russia as the mercenary group says they are done recruiting prisoners to join the invasion in Ukraine.
(Video shows Ukrainians using US weapons to strike Russian forces)
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New video obtained by CNN shows the Ukrainian military using a precise US artillery shell called the "Excalibur" to strike Russian forces. Then, CNN's Fred Pleitgen discusses Russia's global warning if the UK gives Ukraine fighter jets to support their war effort.
(See the hand-me-down vehicles Ukraine is using to fight Russia)
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Ukraine has been given some western weapons recently, but President Zelensky says that's not enough. CNN's Senior International Correspondent Sam Kiley reports from southern Ukraine where troops are training with workhorse hand-me-down M113s -- an aluminum personnel carrier the US army started using in 1960.
(Western division persuaded Putin to invade Ukraine | Tobias Ellwood)
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"This was a factor in persuading Putin to invade Ukraine, knowing the West was not unified."
The West’s reaction to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan influenced Putin to invade Ukraine, defence select committee chair Tobias Ellwood tells #TimesRadio.
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(Ukraine will strike Zaporizhizha to cut Crimea off, military intelligence officer predicts)
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"The central gravity of their war is Crimea."
The Ukrainians will strike southern Zaporizhiza to cut off the Crimea, completing their ultimate goal of liberating the peninsula, military analyst Frank Ledwidge predicts.
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(Russia can't fix corruption, poor training and bad equipment before the offensive | Michael Clarke)
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"Like all military professionals, the Russians will learn from their mistakes."
However, the Russian Military's problems can't be solved overnight, explains Michael Clarke.
(Hear retired officer's warning to Ukraine ahead of potential Russian offensive)
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Russia launched nationwide missile strikes, as it has done with grim regularity for months, and has fired a notably high number of S-300 missiles, according to Ukrainian officials. Retired US Army Maj. Mike Lyons discusses these escalating attacks.
(How a shadowy force has had some success for Putin in Ukraine)
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CNN's Fred Pleitgen and The Guardian reporter Shaun Walker discusses the mercenaries Putin is using in Ukraine called the Wagner Group and their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
(Jets to Ukraine decision ‘not easy’, Poland’s president says - BBC News)
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Poland's President Andrzej Duda, one of Ukraine’s closest allies, has said sending jets to Ukraine would be a "very serious decision" that was "not easy to take".
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Duda said sending F-16 jets would pose a “serious problem” for his country, adding "we have not enough”.
The Polish president said any decision to send air assistance should be a "joint decision" - rather than one for any single country to take.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenksy spent the week travelling around Europe requesting allies provide jets, which he says are needed to win the war.
(Video appears to show Ukrainian soldiers taking Russian prisoners)
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Across Ukraine, Russian missile strikes are targeting key Ukrainian infrastructure as the one-year mark of the war nears. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
(Russia has started a new offensive in Ukraine, says NATO chief)
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NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warns that Russia has already started a new offensive in Ukraine. CNN’s David McKenzie reports from Ukraine followed by a discussion from retired US Army Maj. Mike Lyons
Russian government has built secret network of railroad lines and train stations for Putin’s exclusive use, according to new report
11:49 pm, February 13, 2023
Over the last decade, Russian authorities have built multiple railroad lines that lead to Vladimir Putin’s various residences, as well as several secret train stations near those residences, the investigative news outlet Proekt reported on Tuesday.
According to Proekt, a train station with a helipad was built near Putin’s Valdai residence in Russia’s Novgorod region in 2019, as was a track leading to the station. Three local residents told the outlet that the track is used exclusively to transport the president.
Another secret station was built near Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence in the Moscow region in 2015, according to satellite imagery that Proekt’s journalists examined. The station reportedly sits on land that was seized by Russia’s federal government at the direction of then-Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and is covered by a tall fence.
And in 2017, according to Proekt’s reporting, a railway platform and a terminal track line that’s hidden by a fence from the lines used by suburban passenger trains were built near Bocharov Ruchey, Putin’s summer residence in Sochi.
On Monday, the investigative outlet Dossier Center reported that in the latter half of 2021, Vladimir Putin began using a customized armored train to get around Russia.
(Russia has lost ‘strategically, operationally and tactically,’ top US general says)
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A little less than a year since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost “strategically, operationally, and tactically,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley said from Brussels. Milley and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are in Brussels for the ninth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, to discuss ongoing support for Ukraine as it fights against Russia.
(Fierce fighting rages on front lines in eastern Ukraine)
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Ukrainian forces are now locked in fierce fighting on the front lines in the east of Ukraine, where they say Russian troops are continuing offensives from the air and on the ground. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
(Video appears to show Ukrainians destroying weapon that rips oxygen from human lungs)
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New video captures Ukraine taking out thermobaric weapons Putin has been using to inflict massive casualties on the front lines. This weapon, banned by the Geneva Convention, can rip the oxygen out of people's lungs when detonated.
(Inside a prisoner of war camp for Russians in Ukraine – BBC News)
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Ukraine and Russia have been cooperating with prisoner of war exchanges despite the continuing war.
Kyiv said this month it had secured the release of 1,762 men and women so far in prisoner swaps.
These are highly sensitive operations, often taking months to arrange. Under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war must not be paraded or exposed to the public.
The BBC has been given rare access to one facility where captured Russian soldiers are held in the west of Ukraine.
(See Ukrainian children released from Russia's alleged 're-education' camps)
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CNN's David McKenzie investigates the stories behind a new report from Yale University that describes Ukrainian parents fighting to get their children out of purported Russian "re-education" camps.
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