DPhil/PhD Intl Relations @UniofOxford Assoc Fellow @RUSI_org Author "Russia in Africa" & "Putin's War on Ukraine" @HurstPublishers Email samuel.ramani@gmail.com
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Vladimir Putin has killed Swedish neutrality and German pacifism in a single weekend
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BREAKING: Kosovo asks the US for a permanent military base and requests NATO membership
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Norway has replaced Russia as Germany's largest gas supplier. A historic milestone.
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BREAKING: The U.S. will ask the UN General Assembly to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council
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BREAKING: Sweden confirms that it has U.S. security assurances if it applies for NATO membership
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BREAKING: Ukraine says it will not give up its EU membership bid as a compromise to Russia
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BREAKING: Poland says it wants Russia expelled from the G20 and that the US has responded positively to this proposal
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BREAKING: Australia, which supplies Russia with 20% of its alumina, bans exports of alumina and bauxite to Russia
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BREAKING: Japan imposes individual sanctions on Russia and bans the issuance of Russian bonds
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Russia says it is quitting the UN Human Rights Council immediately. No Russia, you were expelled.
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BREAKING: Canada becomes the first country to sign off on Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO
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BREAKING: Ireland's Senate passes a resolution recognizing Russia's war crimes in Ukraine as a genocide
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BREAKING: The EU will impose travel bans and asset freezes on all members of the Russian State Duma
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BREAKING: The U.S. and Britain have reportedly provided Sweden with security guarantees during its NATO application process
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BREAKING: Spain joins Poland in calling Russia’s actions in Ukraine a possible genocide
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BREAKING: The Netherlands will send heavy weaponry, including armoured vehicles to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Britain warns Vladimir Putin could face war crimes charges for his actions in Ukraine
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BREAKING: Poland has reportedly frozen the Russian embassy in Warsaw’s accounts for “terrorism financing”
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Zelensky tells the UN Security Council to expel Russia or dissolve itself. The kind of blunt language that the UNSC should hear more often.
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BREAKING: Germany's Defence Minister says the EU must discuss banning Russian gas in light of the Bucha Massacre
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BREAKING: Germany announces that it will restart coal-fired power plants in order to conserve natural gas
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When Vladimir Putin was about to meet with Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, the Home Secretary's dog barked loudly
The Queen quipped: 'Dogs have interesting instincts, don’t they?"
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BREAKING: Boris Johnson confirms that Britain will come to Sweden's assistance if it is attacked
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BREAKING: The Dutch Parliament votes in support of the creation of a special tribunal in The Hague to prosecute Russian military and political leaders for invading Ukraine
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BREAKING: The U.S. says it will not object to Slovakia's potential transfer of MiG jets to Ukraine
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BREAKING: The US and G7 freeze the Russian Central Bank's gold reserves. This is 20% of the central bank's total assets, between $100 to $140 billion.
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BREAKING: Sweden joins Denmark and Germany by pledging to increase defence spending to 2% of GDP
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BREAKING: Ukraine says that the Russian military has suspended new unit arrivals in Ukraine
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BREAKING: India reportedly cancels plans to buy 48 Mi-17 V5 helicopters from Russia
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BREAKING: Japan will provide Ukraine with over $3 billion in frozen Russian assets from the G7 loan program
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BREAKING: The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and the Czech Republic expel Russian intelligence agents posing as diplomats
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BREAKING: Finland and Sweden are reportedly going to start their NATO membership applications in May
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BREAKING: The Czech Republic accuses Putin of war crimes and urges tougher sanctions to stop him
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BREAKING: The UN Human Rights Office says that civilians in Bucha were "directly targeted and directly killed"
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Finland has terminated a contract with Russia’s Rosatom to construct a third nuclear power plant
The deal is worth $7.8 billion
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France clarified its conditions for victory in Ukraine
A full restoration of Ukrainian territory to 2014 borders including Crimea. So no off-ramp for Vladimir Putin.
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The former President of Mongolia satirically strikes back at Putin’s historical justifications for invading Ukraine
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BREAKING: Norway announces that it will send long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine
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A Ukrainian flag has been reinstated on Snake Island. A symbolically powerful blow to Russia in the Black Sea
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BREAKING: Germany will deliver the first of 4 IRIS-T SLM air defence systems to Ukraine "within days"
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BREAKING: The Netherlands will supply some of its most powerful howitzers to Ukraine
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Zelensky says that he won't accept Russian ultimatums and that Ukraine is ready to fight Russia for 10 years
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BREAKING: Hungary offers its territory as an alternative land route for Ukrainian grain exports
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BREAKING: Turkey closes its airspace for Russian military and civilian flights to Syria
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BREAKING: Britain will support and provide assistance to Poland if it supplies fighter jets to Ukraine
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BREAKING: Denmark summons Russia's ambassador after a Russian spy plane violates its airspace
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BREAKING: Canada says it plans to allow sanctioned assets to be used to compensate victims. This means forfeited Russian assets will help Ukrainians.
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Russia says that it is relocating 500 Ukrainian children each day from Kherson to Russian territory. A harrowing admission of war crimes.
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BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelensky urges Russia to be internationally recognized as a terrorist state
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BREAKING: Ukraine's special forces unit Khort claims that it has killed the Deputy Chief of Staff of Wagner Group
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BREAKING: Poland proposes the creation of an international commission to investigate genocide in Ukraine
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BREAKING: There are reports that a Russian missile intended for Ukraine crossed into Poland killing 2 people
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BREAKING: France's Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian says Russia is only pretending to negotiate with Ukraine
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The Czech Republic has submitted its candidacy to replace Russia on the UN Human Rights Council
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BREAKING: Greece will ask the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Mariupol
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BREAKING: The ICJ rules that Ukraine did not commit genocide in Donbas and urges Russia to immediately end the war
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BREAKING: Germany arrests defence company chief for selling electronic components for Russian drones
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BREAKING: The Kyiv police have discovered 900 civilian bodies. Almost all of them were shot dead.
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BREAKING: Canada suspends exports of 28 services vital for Russia's oil, gas and chemical sectors
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BREAKING: The Netherlands pledges nearly 2 billion euros in military support for Ukraine
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BREAKING: France announces that it has stopped receiving gas from Russian pipelines since June 15
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BREAKING: Germany plans to release more than a billion euros in military aid to Ukraine
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