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In Cyprus, a faraway war forces a city to redefine its Russianness – POLITICO

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LIMASSOL, Cyprus — Sipping coffee at a beachside cafe, Alexey Voloboev scrolled down on a Telegram group chat titled “financial help in Cyprus.”

“This is now the Russian bank of Cyprus,” the Russian businessman laughed. 

The group, which already has some 1,600 members, serves as a black market for swapping rubles and euros — a transaction that’s now increasingly difficult after Moscow sent its troops streaming into Ukraine. Not only has the EU

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Is Russia LOSING Donbas? Pro-Putin war reporter says their troops ‘can’t push out Ukrainian forces’

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Russia is struggling to make significant military gains in Ukraine’s Donbas region because it is fighting Kyiv’s forces one-on-one, a pro-Moscow reporter has said.

War correspondent and Putin propagandist Aleksandr Sladkov made a rare admission of Russia’s military struggles in Ukraine, speaking in a video posted to social media late on Monday.

He said that Vladimir Putin’s so-called special military operation was ‘shamefully indecisive’, that Russian troops ‘can’t push out Ukrainian forces’, and that Moscow’s armies are ‘making a feat

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Mass deaths feared as Putin’s forces bomb Ukrainian theatre where hundreds of people were sheltering

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Russian forces bombed a theatre where hundreds of civilians, including children, were sheltering in the encircled port city of Mariupol on Wednesday, the city council said.

Officials said it is impossible to know how many people were killed or injured in the attack on the Mariupol Drama Theatre because the shelling of residential areas continues in the city, meaning rescuers can’t reach those in the rubble. 

Satellite imagery from Monday showed the word ‘children’ written in large white letters in

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Russian forces are ‘decimated’ says top UK general

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Vladimir Putin’s ‘decimated’ forces could lose the war in Ukraine, the UK’s top military commander has suggested.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia’s troops were ‘in a mess’ and the invasion was ‘not going well’.

His comments yesterday represent the most optimistic assessment yet of how the conflict may end – but came on another bleak day, with Russian forces firing on families as they fled the fighting.

When the invasion began less than a fortnight ago it was assumed

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Stellantis richtet Task Forces ein, da die Auswirkungen der Ukraine-Krise auf die Autohersteller zunehmen

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AMSTERDAM — Chrysler-Mutter Stellantis hat zwei Task Forces eingerichtet, die sich mit den Auswirkungen der russischen Invasion in der Ukraine befassen sollen.

Eine der Task Forces überwacht die von den USA und ihren westlichen Verbündeten gegen Russland verhängten Sanktionen und wie der Autohersteller sie einhalten wird, sagte CEO Carlos Tavares am Dienstag.

Tavares sprach mit Reportern am Hauptsitz des Unternehmens in Amsterdam, wo das Unternehmen einen neuen strategischen Plan vorstellt.

Die andere Task Force überwacht die 71 Mitarbeiter des Autoherstellers

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Ukraine war: Belarus poised to declare war as special forces are ‘loaded onto planes in’ 

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The Ukrainian state security service has officially reported that a rocket arrack on Zhytomyr Airport – located some 93 miles west of Kiev – was launched from the territory of Belarus. 

Belarusian special forces were seen loading onto airplanes in preparation for an air assault on Kyiv in what could be a widening of the war, military sources stated.

Ukrainian intelligence has reportedly learned from within Belarus that ‘special ops’ troops have been spotted loading up planes for a major

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Defiant Zelensky emerges at dawn in Kyiv after Putin’s forces stormed the capital

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UKRAINE WAR: LATEST 

  • Russia said it is not willing to negotiate with Ukraine’s government until military operation is over
  • Came after Zelensky called for a sit-down with Putin to end the fighting
  • Putin said he would be willing to send a team of negotiators to meet Zelensky – in Belarus, which is helping with the invasion 
  • Russian president then called on Ukrainian military to overthrow the ‘regime’ in Kyiv 
  • Israel has been proposed as a neutral ground for any negotiations 
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White House warns Russia could invade Ukraine ‘any day now’ as American forces arrive in Poland

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Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan issued a warning on Sunday that ‘we are in the window’ where Russia could invade Ukraine ‘any day now’. 

Meanwhile, U.S. paratroopers landed near Poland’s border with Ukraine on Sunday after Biden ordered last week the deployment of 1,700 soldiers to the country’s southeastern region amid rising tensions with Russia.

‘We’re in the window where something could happen that is a military escalation and invasion of Ukraine can happen at any time,’ Sullivan

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Atlantic Brand Partners veröffentlicht „Forces of Influence“

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Heute Atlantic Brand Partner, Der Atlantik‘s Business Services Group veröffentlicht Forces of Influence 2.0, eine Studie darüber, wie sich die anhaltende kulturelle Unvorhersehbarkeit auf die Verbraucherperspektiven auswirkt. Am überraschendsten für Unternehmensleiter: Trotz der branchenweiten Betonung, auf individuelle Verbraucherbedürfnisse einzugehen, besteht immer noch eine große Kluft zwischen dem, was Verbraucher von Marken erwarten, und ihrer wahrgenommenen Realität. Tatsächlich fühlen sich nur 13 Prozent der Befragten heute stärker durch Marken gestärkt als vor zwei Jahren. Die Studie „Balance of the Forces

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