President Vladimir Putin suggested it was impossible to contain Russia and argued that the West would remain reliant on its energy exports for some time.
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President Vladimir Putin compared himself to Peter the Great, the emperor who led Russia’s 18th-century territorial expansion, in a speech that underscored his revanchist ambitions. “It’s impossible — do you understand — impossible to build a fence around a country like Russia,” PutinThursday about efforts to constrain its economy.
Ukraine is taking heavy blows on the battlefield and losing between 100 and 200 fighters daily, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Those figures are sharply higher than recent estimates provided by other officials. The eastern city of Severodonetsk, the locus of the Russian war effort, is under such intense bombardment that evacuation is impossible for the roughly 10,000 civilians trapped there, its mayor said Thursday.
The head of the U.N. atomic energy agency expressed “grave concern” Thursday about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where Ukrainian managers are working under “extremely stressful and challenging” conditions.given to two Britons fighting with Ukraine who were captured by Russian forces in Mariupol. A third foreign fighter, a Moroccan national, was also sentenced to death.
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