Russia's spiritual leader, Patriarch Kirill, on Thursday required a ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas, which is typically celebrated today by both countries.The 76-year-old Orthodox Church leader is a staunch advocate of President Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine who has provided his blessing to Russian soldiers fighting
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prisoners hired from Russian jails by the Wagner mercenary group have completed their six-month service in Ukraine and received their promised pardons from the Russian state, Wagner creator Yevgeny Prigozhin told reporters on Thursday. They worked off their agreement. They dealt with honor, with self-respect. They were the first ones. No one else in this world works as tough as they did, Prigozhin informed Russian news firm RIA-Novosti. Prigozhin stated that the two lots inmates-turned-combatants were merely individuals who had been not able to find their place in society by mishap or by force of character and who wound up getting into trouble. Society offered these individuals an opportunity and need to be grateful to them for defending Russia's nationwide interests, he added.One of the returning Wagner recruits informed RIA Novosti that many of the now-pardoned fighters plan to go back to Wagner as paid contractors.The Wagner Group, a shadowy organization that until 2022 was largely concentrated on providing mercenaries to contrast zones in Africa and the Middle East, has actually seen its public profile grow immensely in the previous year, mainly due to its function supplementing the undersupplied and ill-equipped Russian army in Ukraine. Prigozhin, a St. Petersburg company tycoon typically described as Putin's chef for his long time function supplying catering to the Kremlin, just openly validated that he founded Wagner in September.Shortly afterward, video footage of Prigozhin making a recruitment pitch to a group of inmates in what seemed a Russian jail backyard emerged. In exchange for 6 months of military service with Wagner in Ukraine, the prisoners were offered early release from prison.Since then, Wagner has opened workplaces in St. Petersburg and has actually been honestly recruiting fighters from Russian prisons.Despite Thursday's pardons, the Wagner early release plan has some definite disincentives too-- in November, Prigozhin welcomed the harsh murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin, a founded guilty murderer hired by Wagner who gave up to Ukrainian forces.Nuzhin's killing by his previous pals with a sledgehammer was, Prigozhin said afterward, a pet dog's death for a canine.
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The Ukrainian New Year's missile strike on Makiivka has led to a usually reticent Moscow admitting its largest single loss of life since it sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and has been met with anger among the Russian population.

The strike's rising death toll intensified criticism of Russia's military high command, with even pro-Kremlin

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The death toll from a Ukrainian New Year strike in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine has risen to 89, Moscow stated on Wednesday, after Russians collected to mourn the soldiers in an uncommon show and tell of anger and grief.The Russian Defense Ministry announced the recovery of additional bodies from the rubble of an occupation school in the town of Makiivka
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The previous head of Russia's area agency Dmitry Rogozin stated on Wednesday that he had sent a piece of shrapnel from a French howitzer shell that injured him in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine last month to French President Emmanuel Macron. Rogozin, an outspoken public figure who has likewise functioned as Russia's deputy prime
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While numerous experts and observers expected the Russian economy to collapse under the weight of the Ukraine war and a flood of Western sanctions, the nation has actually appeared remarkably resistant through 2022. The head of Russia's Central Bank stated in December that Russian GDP would contract simply 3% in 2022, while President Vladimir Putin pre
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