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But if Russian state TV is any indication, another reason Putin’s regime is now rejecting the idea of a diplomatic resolution has to do with the approaching midterm elections in the United States. There are several reasons Moscow aborted its initial half-hearted attempts to negotiate with Ukraine, including tangible gains on the battlefront and Western media’s waning attention span. With Vladimir Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine crossing the 100-day mark, the Kremlin seems to be abandoning any pretense of diplomacy. Russian authorities kept up their crackdown against citizens who speak out about the fighting in Ukraine, extending a critic’s detention on Wednesday, confirming charges against two others and prompting Moscow’s chief rabbi to flee the country. The town of Valuyki in western Russia has become a crucial staging post in the latest phase of Russia’s war over the nearby border in Ukraine. Throughout last month, helicopters buzzed overhead, military vehicles clogged the roads, and soldiers prepared for combat at a huge military base there.
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Russian forces have increased their efforts to advance to the south of the town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, likely wanting to secure further options in the region, a British military update said on Thursday. – New York TimesĪrctic Council countries Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States said on Wednesday they would resume limited internal cooperation that excluded Russia. – New York TimesĮven as Russia hammers eastern Ukraine with heavy artillery, it is cementing its grip on the south, claiming to have restored roads, rails and a critical freshwater canal that could help it claim permanent dominion over the region. Russian forces have restored a piece of Ukrainian infrastructure vital to the “land bridge” that Moscow seeks to establish linking Russian territory to the Crimean Peninsula: a canal that supplies water from southern Ukraine to the peninsula, according to satellite images and a statement on Tuesday by the Kremlin’s defense minister, Sergei K. – Wall Street JournalĪ Russian radio station’s news bulletin was interrupted Wednesday by Ukrainian anthems and antiwar songs, in the latest example of Russian media outlets apparently being targeted by antiwar hackers. Russia has transferred more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner in the southern port city of Mariupol to its territory, Russia’s state news agency TASS reported Wednesday, giving Moscow a powerful bargaining chip as its military campaign makes slow progress in eastern Ukraine. As Moscow’s forces push west, seeking to dislodge Ukrainians from their positions and seize control of the country’s east, residents are fleeing in droves, aided by volunteers who risk their lives to ferry them out. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned cities in the Donbas region into ghost towns.
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