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Russian nuclear threat not ‘all that likely’, says former US army general
We spoke to retired US army general David Patreaus who was also director of the CIA. I began by asking him how the west was supposed to deal with a nuclear threat from the Russian President.
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Why did Russia and Ukraine agree prisoner of war swap?
Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum is in President Zelenskyy’s home town in Ukraine and our Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy is at the UN General Assembly in New York.
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Protests build as Russia serve call up papers to Ukraine frontline
Military officials around Russia have begun serving call-up papers on men of fighting age, just hours after President Putin announced what he called a ‘partial mobilisation’ to bolster his forces in Ukraine.
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Russia has “shamelessly violated” the United Nations charter – President Biden
There’s been condemnation of the talk of nuclear strikes at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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UK should not be fearful of nuclear attack on London, former Russian politician says
We spoke to Putin-supporting former Russian politician Natalya Narochnitskaya a little earlier and began by asking her if the Russian President is really prepared to use nuclear weapons?
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Putin’s warning of nuclear weapon use is ‘bluff,’ says former Russian prime minister
We spoke to Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Prime Minister of Russia and asked him, although Vladimir Putin says his new strategy is not a bluff, is it a bluff?
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Russia’s nuclear threat: what Putin’s speech means for Ukraine war
Vladimir Putin went on Russian TV to call-up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, in a speech that also threatened the prospect of nuclear war.
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Russia-Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin to address nation amid fears of major escalation
Our Foreign affairs Correspondent Paraic O’Brien has been looking at the build-up to his speech in Russia and the occupied territories where referendums are due to be held.
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Inside the devastated Ukrainian town freed from the Russians
President Putin is due to address the Russian nation tonight – in what many believe could mark a major turn in the Ukraine war.
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Mass grave in Izyum ‘evidence of Russian war crimes’, says Ukrainian MP
We talked to Oleksiy Goncharenko, the Ukrainian MP for the Black Sea port of Odesa.
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Russia like wild animal trapped in headlights of oncoming truck, says ex-British ambassador to Russia
We were joined by the former British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, and Professor Steve Tsang, who is director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Russia and China hold talks in the shadow of Ukraine war
In their first face-to-face meeting since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has told China’s leader Xi Jinping that he values their “balanced position” on the war but understands that they have “questions and concerns”.
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Zelenskyy advisor calls for air defence systems from West to protect Ukraine from Russian cruise missiles
We spoke to Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, and asked him if he was surprised by the success his country’s armed forces have achieved over the last week.
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‘Ukraine has the ability to defeat the Russians’, says former US Defence Advisor to Ukraine
We’re joined by retired Colonel and former US Defence Advisor to Ukraine Liam Collins – who helped train and reform Ukraine’s military between 2016 and 2018.
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Ukraine has seized back 6,000 sq km from Russian occupied forces, says Zelenskyy
In Ukraine, the country’s president says 6,000 square kilometres of territory have now been seized back from Russian occupied forces. Volodymr Zelenskyy has renewed calls for international allies to send fresh weaponry. But amid fears at how Moscow will now respond, the Kremlin has issued a veiled threat to critics of Vladimir Putin’s invasion –…