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Biden: Nuclear 'Armageddon' risk highest since '62 crisis

Europe · New York

Biden: Nuclear 'Armageddon' risk highest since '62 crisis

49% Center coverage: 196 sources

President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a guy I know fairly well” and the Russian leader was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.”See the Story

Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize

Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize

41% Left coverage: 88 sources

Human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties have won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.See the Story

Luxury yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch docked in Hong Kong

Europe · Hong Kong

Luxury yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch docked in Hong Kong

58% Center coverage: 12 sources

A superyacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has anchored in Hong Kong this week amid moves by Western governments to seize yachts connected to sanctioned Russian businessmen.See the Story

Blindspots

Kremlin denounces Zelenskiy's comments about preventive strikes -RIA

Kremlin denounces Zelenskiy's comments about preventive strikes -RIA

CPAC backpedals on pro-Russia tweet as some U.S. conservatives back Putin

CPAC backpedals on pro-Russia tweet as some U.S. conservatives back Putin

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Europe · Brussels

EU leaders struggle to bridge gas price cap divide

60% Center coverage: 20 sources

EU leaders converge on Prague Castle to try to bridge differences over a natural gas price cap. Russia has reduced or cut off natural gas to 13 member nations, leading to surging gas and electricity prices. Price cap is one of several measures the 27-nation bloc is preparing to contain an energy crisis.See the Story

Europe · Moscow

Putin's path: from pledges of stability to nuclear threats

56% Center coverage: 16 sources

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the eye of a storm of his own making. His army is suffering humiliating defeats in Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Russians are fleeing his mobilization order. Putin has repeatedly signaled that he could resort to nuclear weapons to protect the Russian gains in the Ukraine.See the Story

Europe · Moscow

‘God put you in power’, Russian Orthodox leader tells Putin

57% Right coverage: 7 sources

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church congratulates Vladimir Putin on his 70th birthday. Patriarch Kirill calls on worshippers across the country to pray for Putin's health. Kirill has been a vocal supporter of the military operation in Ukraine. He has close ties with the government, backing conservative values over Western liberalism.See the Story

Novosibirsk · Novosibirsk

Second recruit in five days found dead at Novosibirsk military academy

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

The body of a man who recently enlisted in the Russian army was found at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, regional human rights commissioner Nina Shalabayeva said on Friday.See the Story

Kremlin · Ukraine

Putin Confronted by Kremlin Insider Over Ukraine, U.S. Intel Reportedly Tells Biden

100% Left coverage: 2 sources

An unnamed member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle has confronted him, The Washington Post reports. The insider's confrontation and identity were reportedly included in U.S. President Joe Biden's daily intelligence briefing. The individual's identity could not be confirmed, but Putin's tight inner circle is believed to comprise mostly former KGB colleagues.See the Story

Blunt Criticism of Russian Army Signals New Challenge for Putin

Coverage: 2 sources

The outpouring of discontent is creating a new challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The latest salvo came Thursday when a Russian-installed official in an occupied region of Ukraine belittled the Kremlin's defense minister. The official, Kirill Stremousov, said Shoigu should consider killing himself.See the Story

Europe · Moscow

Deterring Putin

Coverage: 2 sources

Walter Russell Mead: “The Biden administration faces a terrible dilemma. To yield to Mr. Putin’s nuclear blackmail would be a cowardly act of appeasement from which Neville Chamberlain would recoil—and which would open the door to more nuclear blackmail. Yet to lead the Western alliance into an open-ended nuclear confrontation with Russia is to risk the most catastrophic of wars.”See the Story

Europe · Ukraine

Ukraine says Zelenskyy’s ‘preventive strike’ call misinterpreted as Moscow fumes

Coverage: 2 sources

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said to deter use of nuclear weapons, NATO and the international community must take preventive strikes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the remarks were a call to start a world war. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Zelenskiy a monster. Spokesman Sergii Nykyforov later clarified in a Facebook post that the Ukrainian president was referring to economic sanctions.See the Story

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