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New York Times:
Russia Asked China for Military and Economic Aid for Ukraine War, U.S. Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine after President Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion last month, according to U.S. officials.
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Finding a Way Out of the War in Ukraine Proves Elusive — WASHINGTON — The United States accurately predicted the start of the war in Ukraine, sounding the alarm that an invasion was imminent despite Moscow's denials and Europe's skepticism. Predicting how it might end is proving far more difficult.
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
US view of Putin: Angry, frustrated, likely to escalate war
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Traci Carl / New York Times:
Ukraine and Russia Set to Meet for Peace Talks
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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia asks China for military equipment, U.S. officials say
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Bipartisan lawmakers ramp up calls on Biden to give Ukraine weapons, fighter jets
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Japan Times and The Guardian
Mstyslav Chernov / Associated Press:
Pregnant woman, baby die after Russia bombed maternity ward — MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, The Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance …
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Prosecutors Warn Western Companies of Arrests, Asset Seizures — McDonald's and IBM are among those cautioned if leaders there criticize the government or if companies withdraw from the country — Russian prosecutors have issued warnings to Western companies in Russia …
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New York Times:
‘Things Will Only Get Worse.’ Putin's War Sends Russians Into Exile. — Thousands of Russians saw their comfortable, middle-class lives fade overnight with the invasion ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin. — ISTANBUL — They lined up at ATM's, desperate for cash after Visa …
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Matt Bai / Washington Post:
Our cause in Ukraine is inspiring. It probably won't stay that way. — These opening weeks in Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have given us two things we hardly thought possible in Washington any longer: clarity of purpose and relative unity.
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Jeremy Kryt / The Daily Beast:
Why Putin Is Hell-Bent on Capturing Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors — ENDGAME — The takeover of Ukraine's nuclear facilities is a vital part of the Kremlin's “fear and control” strategy in the war. — The world watched in horror as shelling by Russian forces set fire to part of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine.
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Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
America's Hesitation Is Heartbreaking — “When you're at war, you're at war,” the saying goes, and if so, you have to accept the implications. So too in the present circumstance. The United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war with Russia.
Sky News:
Police enter London mansion reportedly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after squatters occupy property — Deripaska, a 54-year-old industrialist who founded the aluminium giant Rusal, was added to the UK government's sanctions list on 10 March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Katharine Murphy / The Guardian:
Roman Abramovich among Russian oligarchs targeted by new Morrison government sanctions
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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
U.S. Growing Alarmed Over Israel's Safe Harbor for Russian Oligarchs
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Al Jazeera
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite:
Mark Levin Slams ‘Putin Wing of the Media’ For Pushing Ukraine Bioweapons Theory Days After Tucker Carlson Promotes It — Fox News' Mark Levin on Sunday those in the media promoting the conspiracy theory that Ukraine has been secretly developing bioweapons in conjunction with the U.S.
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Russia Doesn't Need Trolls This Time
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New York Post:
Mayors urge homeless to get off streets as ‘cold-blooded killer’ stalks NYC, DC — The mayors of New York City and Washington, DC, urged their cities' homeless populations to seek shelter Sunday as a “cold-blooded killer” who had shot at least five vagrants remained on the loose.
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Stefan Becket / CBS News:
American journalist Brent Renaud shot and killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, police say — Washington — An American journalist was killed and another was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the capital of Kyiv as they were traveling to film refugees, Ukrainian police said Sunday.
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Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages — Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops — Russian soldiers have shot people dead in the street as they took over Ukrainian villages, according to fleeing residents.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Koch Industries continues doing business in Russia — Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch, has numerous ongoing business operations in Russia. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Koch Industries has given no indications that those business operations have been suspended.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
With cases still rising in Hong Kong, 300,000 people are isolating at home, officials say. — BEIJING — Two of China's largest cities, Shenzhen and Shanghai, imposed stringent restrictions on Sunday on the movements of their residents, as a coronavirus outbreak continued to spread across much of mainland China.
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ChinaDiction and Balloon Juice
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ukraine dents ‘America First’ thinking deep in the heart of Trump country — “It breaks my heart to see this. It's hard to sit still and not do something. What can we do as individuals?” one GOP voter said at a town hall. — STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Here in the middle …
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