Ukraine War: Thousands Evacuate as Major Dam Is Destroyed

Jun 6, 2023 | Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls. Hundreds of thousands of residents downriver were ordered to evacuate over fears of a massive flood.

German Chancellor Scholz Throws Angry Response at Chants of 'Warmonger' | DW News

Jun 4, 2023 | In Germany a video has gone viral showing Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a rare outburst of anger, shouting at protesters who attacked his government's military support of Ukraine.

Scholz was at a gathering of his party near Berlin when a group of protesters disrupted his speech, shouting slogans like 'Make peace without weapons' and calling him a warmonger.

How Russia Aims to Kill Germany's Support for Ukraine | DW News

Apr 22, 2023 | According to sensitive Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence agency, the Kremlin is trying to engineer German public opinion and German election results to be sympathetic to Russia and hostile to Ukraine and its Western allies. The documents reportedly reveal how Kremlin officials are working to bring together two unlikely bedfellows, Germany's far-right party known as the AfD and Germany's extreme left party, known as the Linke.

The Washington Post has reviewed this trove of Russian documents, and conducted interviews with people close to both political parties. The Post reports that he documents record meetings between Kremlin officials and Russian political strategists, and the Kremlin's orders for the strategists to focus on Germany to build antiwar sentiment in Europe and dampen support for Ukraine.

Ukraine War: UK 'Worried about Escalation' from Putin

Jun 28, 2022 • Technology Minister Chris Philp has told Sky News that the Government is "worried about escalation" from Russia following recent missile attacks in Ukraine.

Is a Coup against Putin Underway? | Dr Neil Melvin

May 14, 2022 • “As things have started to go quite badly for Russia, there have been rumours of discontent among some of the security services.”

Is a coup against Putin underway? Kait Borsay and Jenny Kleeman ask the Director of International Security Studies at RUSI on #TimesRadio.

Ukraine War: UK Adds Putin's Former Wife to Sanctions List

Lyudmila Ocheretnaya (L) and Alina Kabaeva | GETTY IMAGES
BBC: The UK has imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's former wife and his alleged current girlfriend over the invasion of Ukraine.

Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, who was married to the president until 2014, and former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, face UK travel bans and asset freezes.

The UK has now placed more than 1,000 people on its Russian sanctions list.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain was "tightening the vice" on Mr Putin's "inner circle".

The UK was "exposing and targeting the shady network propping up Putin's luxury lifestyle", she said, and would "keep going with sanctions on all those aiding and abetting Putin's aggression until Ukraine prevails".

Ms Truss said sanctions against Russia should only be lifted when all of its troops had left Ukraine. » | Patrick Jackson, BBC News | Friday, May 13, 2022