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FILE – In this photo provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian navy missile cruiser Moskva is on patrol in the Mediterranean Sea near the Syrian coast on Dec. 17, 2015. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

May 5, 2022 at 4:30 pm

U.S. provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink Russian warship

The United States provided Ukraine with intelligence that helped Kyiv attack and sink the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, according to people familiar with...

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Road workers examine a destroyed Russian tank on the highway to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) XEL103 XEL103

April 12, 2022 at 4:15 pm

Hubris and isolation led Putin to misjudge Ukraine

Questions are mounting about how a leader known for railing against the folly of regime-change wars could have sleepwalked into a such a morass.

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March 17, 2022 at 11:45 am

Inside Russia’s propaganda bubble: Where a war isn’t a war

State propaganda has lured millions of Russians into supporting a large-scale war where no mention is ever made of anyone dying at Russian hands.

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March 13, 2022 at 12:16 pm

‘I’m writing this post now and crying’: Russians bid farewell to Instagram before midnight ban

RIGA, Latvia - The tears were flowing Sunday among Russia's airbrushed Instagram influencers, who begged their followers in farewell posts to join them on alternative...

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Teenager Artyom, 15, wounded by shelling, lies in a car waiting to be moved to a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) NYAG307 NYAG307

March 4, 2022 at 10:40 am

Russia’s siege of Mariupol a grim sign for other major Ukrainian cities

Mariupol, a city of 430,000, may be a dismal harbinger of things to come for other Ukrainian cities as Russian forces carry out siege tactics...

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February 24, 2022 at 9:15 pm

At great risk for Ukraine and Russia, Putin signals a dark endgame | Analysis

Russian President Vladimir Putin is staking his legacy on an irredentist invasion of Ukraine that poses significant risks to his own country and raises worrisome...

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February 20, 2022 at 5:20 am

Wielding the threat of war, a new, more aggressive Putin steps forward

He is the man with the very long table who seats world leaders and ministers at an almost comical distance. He is a lone figure...

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January 21, 2022 at 5:02 pm

Putin has many Ukraine options short of a multifront invasion

The former KGB lieutenant colonel has spent his career refining tactics to keep his adversaries off balance and to exploit their differences .

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Ukrainian soldiers walks under a camouflage net in a trench on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Debaltsevo, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Ukraine Friday, Dec 3, 2021. In this Friday, the Ukrainian defense minister warned that Russia could invade his country next month. Russia-West tensions escalated recently with Ukraine and its Western backers becoming increasingly concerned that a Russian troop buildup near the Ukrainian border could signal Moscow’s intention to invade. XEL103

December 3, 2021 at 6:21 pm

Russia planning military offensive against Ukraine, U.S. intelligence warns

U.S. intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning an offensive as soon as early next year involving up to 175,000 troops, according to U.S. officials...

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October 3, 2021 at 10:38 am

Secret money, swanky real estate and a Monte Carlo mystery tied to Putin

MONACO - The apartment hangs over the blue waters of the Mediterranean beneath the Monte Carlo casino of James Bond legend. In the harbor below,...

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