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A record 82 treason cases were opened so far this year, a Russian outlet claimed But the actual number is likely to be 'many times higher', the outlet has alleged Paranoid Vladimir Putin's security forces have massively increased the number of suspected 'traitors' they have arrested for treason. Now literally everyone can be accused of treason,' said the report. 'Even likes on Instagram and subscriptions on Telegram [messenger service] can lead to a criminal case.' Lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov, from human rights project Department One, said: 'Do not forget that the very content of the state secret is a state secret....
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A soldier, 42, who fought for Putin in Ukraine raped two schoolgirls the day after he returned home from his military service, say police. The suspected paedophile threatened girls aged ten and 12 that he would blow them up with a grenade unless they submitted to him. Wearing the uniform of 'convicts' army Wagner, he approached them near their school in Novosibirsk and forced them behind garages where he sexually attacked them.
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Russian air defences claim they shot down a missile in the crossing's vicinity The £3 billion ten-mile crossing was built in 2014 after Putin annexed Crimea A Ukrainian cruise missile attack has forced the £3 billion ten-mile bridge linking Russia to Crimea to temporarily close. Russian air defences have claimed they shot down a missile in the vicinity of the crossing, which was built on Putin's orders after he annexed the Crimea after an invasion in 2014. One report said this was an interception by the 31st Air Defence Division north of Taman on the Russia side of the bridge....
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A leading Russian investigative journalist has been brutally attacked on a working trip to Chechnya - a republic of Russia governed by close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov who had previously described the reporter as a 'terrorist'. Elena Milashina, 45, and lawyer Alexander Nemov - who was also savagely beaten - were stopped by armed and masked men as they arrived in the regional capital Grozny to attend a court case linked to human right abuses. The pair received death threats and had guns pointed at their heads, according to reports, while Milashina's head was shaved and her fingers broken...
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Vladimir Putin has broken his silence about 'stepping up efforts' in Ukraine in pre-recorded interview that aired after he suffered his worst daily air force losses of the war. The Russian president, on state television today, said he was 'confident' in his forces where he alleged are 'in a position to implement all the plans and tasks ahead of us'. His speech aired today after it was claimed that Wagner mercenary fighters killed 39 pilots and crew by downing strike helicopters and a military plane during Prigozhin's rebellion. -snip- Putin is believed to have suffered grievous losses as he sought...
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Prigozhin's failed coup inflicted worst daily air force losses of the war with 39 pilots and crew killed by Wagner' He faces expectation to replace top war commanders or face new insurrection Coup leader Prigozhin agreed to be based across the border in Belarus - for now Vladimir Putin has broken his silence about 'stepping up efforts' in Ukraine in pre-recorded interview that aired after he suffered his worst daily air force losses of the war. The Russian president, on state television today, said he was 'confident' in his forces where he alleged are 'in a position to implement all...
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A Russian colonel has claimed Wagner mercenaries are raping, kidnapping and torturing Vladimir Putin's soldiers. Lieutenant colonel Roman Venevitin, who was captured near the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, claimed he was tortured by Wagner mercenaries, despite being on the same side of Russia's war. 'Wagner mercenaries stole two T-80 tanks, 4 cannons, a KAMAZ truck and armoured vehicles,' Venevitin said. 'The Wagner mercenaries took them as war trophies [even though we are supposed to be on the same side].'
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Russian defence chiefs have been mocked for claiming to destroy a German-supplied lethal Leopard 2 tank - when in fact they had blown up tractors in Ukrainian fields. The ridiculing was led by head of Wagner private army Yevgeny Prigozhin, who sees it as yet more evidence of blundering incompetence by Putin's defence chiefs and army. The Russian defence ministry hailed 'footage of the destruction of foreign armoured vehicles, including Leopard tanks'. But in reality, military analysts say the footage showed Russia blasting farm vehicles with a missile fired from a Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter. In the video, a Russian...
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The captured Lieutenant-Colonel identified himself as Roman Venevitin, commander of Russia's 72nd Brigade. Venevitin, who appeared to have a broken or wounded nose, confessed that he 'opened fire on a Wagner PMC [private military company] vehicle while intoxicated from alcohol'. He did so due to 'personal animosity', he claimed. The Russian soldier admitted shooting at Wagner group vehicles while drunk It is latest report of infighting between Wagner mercenaries and Russian army Mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group have taken captive a Lieutenant Colonel from Vladimir Putin's regular forces in the latest example of bitter infighting in Russian ranks. The captured...
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Strelkov said the 'smuta' - pre-revolutionary turmoil - has already started. He claimed Prigozhin is acting with unidentified figures inside Putin's power structures and one serious blow to Russia's war effort by Ukraine could trigger huge changes. 'No later than late summer the internal political situation in the country might change beyond recognition,' Strelkov, who has 800,000 Telegram followers including many mid-ranking Russian soldiers, said. 'Prigozhin has declared war on part of the military and state elite,' he said. 'Naturally he is not alone. If he was just by himself, he would have been eliminated,' Strelov said, pointing to how...
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Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been taken seriously ill for the second time this month in Moscow, reports say. The 68-year-old was said to have been hospitalised in a 'critical' condition after collapsing during a trip to meet close ally Vladimir Putin. He was seen struggling to speak and with a bandaged arm last week after disappearing from the public eye on May 9, sparking rumours around his health. Despite efforts by local authorities to end speculation with photographs and video of the leader performing duties on May 15, doctors are again raising health concerns. His office previously refused to...
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The Kremlin has blamed Britain's Storm Shadow missiles for a devastating long-distance attack on war-torn Mariupol as Ukraine stages a fightback against its Russian occupiers. Ukraine's once fiercely defended city, now in the Russian-held sector of Donetsk, reported two missile strikes on Friday, where a monthslong siege early in the war left much of the city in ruins. Two successive strikes hit the besieged city, one of them allegedly hitting the Azovstal steel works where Ukraine forces once battled to fend off Russian attack. Kremlin state news agency Tass cited an unnamed official as saying the missiles were long-range Storm...
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Four oil tanks hit by Ukrainian 'drone strike' at naval port in annexed Crimea Video shows huge fireball raging and Russia says fire will not be out until tonight A huge ball of fire is raging in Crimea after a suspected Ukrainian aerial drone strike hit a major fuel depot in the heart of an annexed naval port Sevastopol today. Footage showed a fireball with huge flames and a mushroom-like black cloud from a major fire triggered by two explosions in Cossack Bay, in the Crimean Peninsula. The blasts came at 4:20am and 4:21am local time (2.20am and 2.21am UK...
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The 'scar' was seen as Putin attended a midnight Easter service in Moscow A prominent diagonal line is seen upwards from left to right on the despot's neck Intrigue has surfaced over a prominent 'scar' that was seen on Vladimir Putin's neck, adding to further speculation that the despot may be ill with cancer. The marking was seen as he clasped a candle at a midnight Orthodox Easter cathedral service in Moscow at the weekend. It has led to web discussion on whether it represents proof of credible claims initially made by Proekt [Project] media one year ago that Putin...
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Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, the commander of his Pacific Fleet His sacking is a sign that Putin had detected a failure in military exercises Vladimir Putin today dramatically fired an admiral in charge of his Pacific Fleet in a sign that the Russian despot is furious that military drills that were meant to send a message of strength to the West were a flop. Putin sacked Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, the commander of his Pacific Fleet, as the vast military drills he had apparently overseen were still underway. The move to axe Avakyants was confirmed by Deputy Prime...
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A leading crony of Vladimir Putin has urged him to stop the war now and tell the world Russia has achieved the aims of its 'special military operation', including decimating 'a large part of the active male population of Ukraine'. Yevgeny Prigozhin - head of the Wagner mercenary army deployed by the Kremlin - posted a rambling statement online last night in which he made the surprise call for the war to stop. He claimed Russia had taken a 'fat chunk' of Ukrainian territory, and that the most strategic route for its armed forces - who have suffered severe losses...
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Gleb Karakulov, 35, is a captain in the Federal Guard Service, known as the FGS or FSO, who escaped Russia...Putin is so paranoid about his personal security, assassination attempts and health and that he opts to stay 'in his bunker'...Karakulov added that the Russian despot is 'mortally afraid' of Covid and is isolating for the fourth year, and that he never uses a mobile phone out of fear of being bugged...highest ranking defector so far from Putin's immediate security circle...He added: 'I can tell you that I went on many business trips with him, and he went on many trips...
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He revealed Putin is 'mortally afraid' of Covid and is isolating for fourth year A protection officer who worked directly for Vladimir Putin has defected from Russia, labelling the Kremlin despot a 'war criminal' for his invasion of Ukraine. Gleb Karakulov, 35, is a captain in the Federal Guard Service, known as the FGS or FSO, who escaped Russia to the safety via Istanbul. 'With Putin… he doesn't use the internet or a mobile phone. He only receives information from his closest circle, which means that he lives in an information vacuum,' Karakulov said. This means his knowledge of events...
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin, 70, is taking tanks as old as he is out of storage in his desperate bid to crush Ukraine on the battlefield. A video showing long obsolete Soviet-era T-54B and T-55A tanks - designed to be used in the armies of Soviet tyrant Josef Stalin - on a train carried across Russia, presumably destined for the frontlines of the war, has emerged. It comes with Putin having already raided museums and storage depots for retired T-62 battle tanks, which halted production 12 years ago. The geriatric T-54 was originally produced by Stalin after the Second World...
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Series of explosions rocked the FSB building before it burst into flames today The building is located in city of Rostov-on-Don, located 75 miles from Ukraine A deadly fire today broke out at a Russian FSB building located 75 miles from Ukraine after ammunition detonated in a warehouse. A series of explosions rocked the building, which belongs to the FSB's border patrol section, before it burst into flames in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don this morning. One person was killed and two others were injured after the raging inferno ripped through the building. Video shows the building engulfed in...
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