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# Putin

Yesterday
19th March 2023
# Ukraine
Ukrainian authorities slam 'criminal' Putin for Mariupol visit
The Russian leader took a tour of the city and was seen driving a car.
Last week
12th March 2023 - 18th March 2023
# War in Ukraine
Russian attacks on Ukraine continue in wake of Putin arrest warrant
The ICC said it was issuing the warrant for Putin’s arrest over the alleged abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children.
This month
March 2023
Voices
Donnacha Ó Beacháin: 'Young people are fighting to reverse Georgia’s authoritarian trajectory'
As protests erupt in Georgia, the DCU Professor of Politics says the country is at a crossroads but wants to lean into the West.
Last month
February 2023
# Explainer
Coup rumours, Oligarchs, and pro-Russia agitators: What's going on in Moldova?
With voters split between pro-western and pro-Russia parties, Moldova is at a crossroads ahead of the next election.
Voices
Donnacha Ó Beacháin: 'Contemporary Russia is not the USSR - it is arguably a greater threat'
DCU Professor of Politics Donnacha Ó Beacháin takes a look at Putin’s state of the nation address.
Voices
Larry Donnelly: One year on, Biden walks a tightrope on Ukraine
Our columnist looks at Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv this week and his challenges maintaining support for Ukraine at home.
# Russia
Putin planning to put Sarmat nuclear missile 'on combat duty' after suspending arms treaty
Sarmat is among Russia’s next-generation missiles that Putin has described as “invincible”.
Voices
Tom Clonan: 'Putin's aggression is going nowhere as this war reaches its first anniversary'
The security analyst says Putin’s back is to the wall and the global community must redouble efforts to bring an end to this war.
January
January 2023
# missile threats
Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike during phonecall before Ukraine invasion
The Kremlin has disputed the claim, saying there was “no threats with missiles” during the conversation.
# Russia
Putin critic Alexei Navalny says he is being denied hospital care
Navalny said on Wednesday that he had flu symptoms, but was being kept in a punishment cell.
# Russia
Russia says it controls battered Ukraine town of Soledar
The Kremlin has made capturing industrial Donetsk region, where the small town is located, its primary objective.
# Reshuffle
Russia replaces top military commander in Ukraine again
The previous commander of Russian forces in Ukraine will now become deputy to General Valery Gerasimov.
# Ceasefire
Putin orders 36-hour ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas in Ukraine, Kyiv brands move as 'hypocrisy'
Ukraine’s presidential adviser has rejected Russia’s declaration of a ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas as ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘propaganda’.
Last year
2022
# Ukraine
Moscow accuses Ukraine of air base attack that it claims left three dead
Russia’s domestic security agency has said it has killed four Ukrainian ‘saboteurs’ that allegedly tried to enter the country.
Voices
Tom Clonan: Russia cannot ‘win’ this war on Ukraine - so what can we expect in 2023?
Escalation won’t alter the fact that a Russian victory is not possible, security analyst Tom Clonan writes.
Voices
EU parliament president: In times of crisis, we need hope - here's what we can do for Ukraine
Roberta Metsola outlines a campaign to deliver generators to Ukraine as it faces a winter of war.
Voices
Life in Ukraine: 'When soldiers broke into my mother's house, she simply asked not to kill her'
Polina Bashkina speaks to older Ukrainian people left to cope on the front lines of this war.
# Conflict
Ukraine frontline: 'Everybody needs to be at least this good, so you don’t hurt your friends'
Journalist Hannah McCarthy is in Ukraine documenting the training of soldiers.
Voices
Tom Clonan: Losing Kherson is a huge blow for Russia that will embolden the Ukrainian army
The security analyst looks at the recent gains for Ukraine and says it must now capitalise on this and win back more territory.
# kherson
Relief in Ukraine's Kherson after Russian occupation
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians still under occupation: ‘We don’t forget anyone.’
# Ukraine
'Life is returning': Ukrainian police and broadcasters come back to Kherson
Residents awoke from jubilant celebrations that broke out after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of Dnieper River.
# Black sea
Ukrainian grain exports to stop as Putin demands 'real guarantees' from Kyiv
Putin seeks guarantees that Ukraine is ‘not using the humanitarian corridor for military purposes’
# Russia
Vladimir Putin says decade ahead is the 'most dangerous' since World War II
The Ukraine offensive is only a part of the ‘tectonic shifts of the entire world order,’ Putin said.
Voices
Opinion: The war in Ukraine is also a war on nature
Ukrainian writer and journalist Polina Bashkina is living in Ireland while war rages at home – she looks at the impact the war is having on the environment.
# defiant
Defiant Putin says Russia 'doing everything right' in Ukraine
Washington yesterday announced an additional $725 million in military assistance to Kyiv.
# Ukraine
Biden says that Putin 'miscalculated' Russia's ability to occupy Ukraine
Biden said that while he believed Putin himself was rational, he had underestimated the ferocity of Ukrainian defiance
Voices
Dispatches from Ukraine: A student, a rabbi and a burlesque club manager in wartime Odesa
Journalist Hannah McCarthy visits Ukraine’s third-largest city as the war rages on.
# Putin
Putin blames Ukraine secret services for Crimea bridge blast
The 19-kilometre bridge was attacked at dawn yesterday, sparking celebrations from Ukrainians.
# bridge explosion
New deadly strike hits Zaporizhzhia after Crimean bridge blast
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed three people.
Voices
Donnacha Ó Beacháin: 'Fake Russia Great Again' is surely Putin's new motto
The politics professor examines the Russian leader’s attempt this week to annex parts of Ukraine in a sham referendum.
# annexation
Kremlin to annex more Ukraine territories at ceremony Friday
Ukraine and its allies have denounced the so-called referendums as a sham.
# Fleeing
Military-aged men flee Russia in droves after Putin orders partial mobilisation
The Taoiseach has said Ireland would have to assess whether it would be willing to accept Russians who are fleeing the country.
# New York
Ireland would have to assess whether to take in fleeing Russians, says Taoiseach
Germany has indicated its willingness to accept Russian deserters.
Voices
Tom Clonan: Putin has made another strategic blunder but this is a dangerous moment
The security analyst looks at the Russian president’s latest move and the level of threat he now poses.
# Ukraine
Chance for peace in Ukraine is 'minimal' at present, UN chief says after call with Putin
“I have the feeling we are still far away from peace,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
Voices
Tom Clonan: Putin’s military miscalculations in Ukraine may prove to be his undoing
The security analyst says the stakes are high now as Ukraine troops push back and all eyes are now on Moscow.
Voices
Tom Clonan: There is now little chance of a Russian breakthrough in Ukraine
The security analyst says Putin’s tactics are failing and the international community must work hard to bring a peaceful end to the conflict.
Voices
Deaglán de Bréadún: It was clear in Moscow that Gorbachev's popularity was not reflected there
Gorbachev’s popularity on the international stage did not exist to the same extent on his home ground.
# No Show
Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev funeral due to 'work schedule'
Gorbachev’s funeral ceremony will be held on Saturday in Moscow.
Voices
Remember what our soldiers told the Snake Island ship? That's how I feel reading calls for us to capitulate
Ukrainian writer and journalist Polina Bashkina has made her home in Ireland in recent months – she says her nation is physically incapable of giving up.