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Lavrov says Russia wants any peace deal to have "international recognition" of Crimea and the four other Ukrainian provinces it's annexed as an "imperative." That would mark a hardening of what was already a very hardline Russian position. mid.ru/ru/foreign_pol…

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Russia take control of four regions of Ukraine it doesn’t fully occupy as part of any deal to end his war, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Together with several Guardian colleagues, as part of a large journalistic consortium, we investigated the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian captivity. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

In recent days Moscow and Pyongyang finally confirmed that North Korea had sent troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine (in Russia’s Kursk region). Time to recall what Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told me last October when I raised the issue.

Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna. Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Repeated beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, prisoners wrapped from head to toe in sticky tape and then “used as human furniture”… Inside one Russian torture facility (of many) where Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees are held. A horror story: theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

I've spoken to some Ukrainian servicemen who fought in Mariupol and spent time in captivity. They also said that Taganrog was considered the worst of the prisons where Ukrainians were held.

К вопросу о журналистике в России. Вот текст про мелитопольскую пятерку. Нахватали людей, дико пытали, судили А мы были на суде и написали текст об этом zona.media/article/2025/0…

NEW: Our exclusive deep dive into a suspected Russian-led cell behind the parcel bomb plots with the first interviews with those directly involved, revealing how the sabotage campaign unfolded on the ground With Shaun Walker theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

🔥 Great in-depth on the people supposed to be behind the parcel-bomb plot. Investigation by Pjotr Sauer & Shaun Walker ⬇️ (You can find our #WDRNDRSZ in-depth with focus on Germany tagesschau Süddeutsche Zeitung & ardmediathek.de/video/story/sa…)

Inside a suspected Russian-led sabotage cell: our investigation with the first interviews with operatives involved in the parcel bomb plots — and how Western intel worked to unravel the network theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Literal Neo-Nazis in Russia kill an Armenian citizen and nearly kill his girlfriend in a fire. These scum actually work alongside Russian authorities terrorising Central Asian migrants in a number of Russian cities.

Exclusive account reveals previously unreported details and insights into how Kremlin’s sabotage campaign played out on the ground – and the multinational effort to track down the network behind it #Russia theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

"Bezrukavyi was part of a plot to send shipments with explosives to the US and Canada, a brazen plan that would have marked a major escalation of a sabotage campaign that western security officials believe Moscow has unleashed over the past three years across Europe." Great story

Ann Telnaes, the cartoonist who quit The Washington Post in January in protest, is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary (Katie Robertson / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/05/05/bus… mediagazer.com/250505/p14#a25…

🔥 What a feat: Joël van Houdt has launched a kickstarter for his book, documenting 12 years of Afghanistan work kickstarter.com/projects/joelv…

Small update on Russian recruitment: Based on regional data, the high pace of recruitment continues. Moscow Oblast has spent over 11 billion rubles on bonuses this year (~6,000 contracts), Bashkortostan 7-8 billion (~5,000 contracts), Sverdlovsk Obl. 7 billion (~4,000 contracts).

Exclusive with Anna Isaac - government is preparing for a drought this summer as reservoir levels dwindle theguardian.com/environment/20…