In a country where more than 71% of people identify as Russian Orthodox, Patriarch Kirill is a powerful religious and political figure who has consistently refused to acknowledge the destruction and growing death toll of the war.
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Worldwide Orthodox Christian leader denounces ‘atrocious invasion’ of Ukraine
The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia says it will scale back operations near Ukraine capital as talks progress
Western officials say Moscow is reinforcing troops in the Donbas in an attempt to encircle Ukraine’s best-trained and best-equipped forces, which are concentrated in the east.
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Biden makes ‘no apologies,’ says Putin remark was about ‘moral outrage’
The president’s jarring remark about Putin at the end of a Saturday speech in Warsaw intended to rally democracies for a long global struggle against autocracy, stirred controversy in the United States and rattled some allies in Western Europe.
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The last independent newspaper in Russia falls silent
The last Russian newspaper publishing independent news about the war against Ukraine – edited by Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov – announced Monday it was suspending operations until the end of the war.
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New round of talks aims to stop the fighting in Ukraine
If Russia succeeds in encircling and destroying the Ukrainian forces in the country’s industrial heartland, called Donbas, it could try to dictate its terms to Kyiv and potentially attempt to split the country in two.
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A Russian empire ‘from Dublin to Vladivostok’? The roots of Putin’s ultranationalism
In justifying the war he launched , Putin echoed key ideas of Eurasianism, a 20th-century political theory that followers describe as saying Russia is neither part of Europe nor Asia and is the enemy of the U.S.-led “Atlantic” world.
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Zelensky steps up criticism of West, demanding weapons and sanctions
The Ukrainian president asserted that some countries had drawn a red line at sending more offensive weapons to Ukraine ‘because they are afraid of Russia.’
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Biden’s Putin remark pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse
President Biden’s comments in Poland about regime change were the culmination of increasingly pointed language about Putin – ‘killer,’ ‘butcher,’ ‘war criminal’ – with serious implications for how to end the war in Ukraine and avoid a wider conflict.
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Ukrainians brace for attack on port of Odesa
The Black Sea port is mining its beaches and rushing to defend itself from a Mariupol-style fate.