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☆ Before Evan Gershkovich, Nicholas Daniloff Was the Last U.S. Reporter Accused of Espionage by Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ In Russian Courts, Secret Trials and Near-Certain Convictions Await Accused Spies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—As Moscow prosecutors prepare an espionage case against jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, lawyers with experience in the Russian judicial process predict a journey through a justice system with the familiar features of Western courts but little of their substance. Like in the U.S. and other Western legal systems, Mr. Gershkovich is guaranteed a defense lawyer in Russia. But in practice, there is no promise of when his lawyer will be allowed to talk to him. When they do talk, their conversations will be closely monitored, say experts who track legal developments in Russia.

☆ U.S.-Russia Rift Complicates Case of Arrested Journal Reporter
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Alan Cullison | Warren P. Strobel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—Moscow’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges this week broadens a rift between the U.S. and Russia that is already so wide, the two nuclear powers barely maintain diplomatic communications. That will make any agreement on the release of the reporter, 31-year-old Evan Gershkovich, difficult to secure as he heads toward a trial in a court under the control of Russia’s security service, the FSB, U.S. officials say.

☆ Biden Calls on Russia to Release Journal Reporter
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Alan Cullison | Warren P. Strobel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Ukraine Ramps Up Corruption Fight as Zelensky Races to Assure Wary West
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Jared Malsin | Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian authorities launched criminal cases against six former defense-ministry officials and raided the home of a former political backer of President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, amid a flurry of attempts by Mr. Zelensky to show Western governments that he is serious about an anticorruption drive. With billions of dollars in aid flowing into Ukraine monthly, Mr. Zelensky is under pressure from Western backers to take a firm stance against endemic Ukrainian corruption. He also faces calls from ordinary Ukrainians who are fighting and dying in the country’s war with Russia to uproot corruption for good.

☆ Rockets Kill One in Russian Region Near Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Alan Cullison | Yaroslav Trofimov | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut have been locked in a long, bloody battle with Russian forces determined to take the eastern city. KYIV, Ukraine—A rocket strike killed at least one person in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, local officials said, as Russia’s defense minister made a rare visit to the Ukrainian war zone. A rocket salvo targeting Belgorod on Sunday was intercepted by Russian air defenses, but falling debris and shrapnel killed one resident, injured eight others and caused damage to 14 buildings, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov , said on social media. He didn’t explicitly blame Ukraine, and Kyiv didn’t acknowledge responsibility for the attack.

☆ Ukraine Hits Hotel Hosting Russian Military
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Ian Lovett | Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Russia Celebrates Prisoner Exchange, Vladimir Putin Says He Is Ready for More Swaps
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was ready for more prisoner exchanges with the U.S., but the Kremlin warned that the talks that freed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner didn’t herald a warming in relations between the two nations. Russia and the U.S. agreed to exchange Ms. Griner for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout. Ms. Griner had been detained earlier this year in Russia after she was found carrying hashish oil in her luggage. She was later convicted of drug smuggling and possession.

☆ Exiled Russian TV Channel Loses License in Latvia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Latvian government suspended the license Tuesday of a Russian opposition television channel operating from its soil, calling it a security risk after one of its presenters made a clumsy show of support for Russian servicemen who had been mobilized to fight in Ukraine. The chief editor of the channel, TV Rain, called the Latvian government’s decision “absurd and having nothing to do with common sense.” The presenter, who was fired from the channel, offered an apology and said his words were taken out of context. The channel, staffed by journalists who fled Russia, is now looking for a new country to base its operations.

☆ Video Appears to Show Russian Mercenaries Executing One of Their Own
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A video that purported to show the execution of a Russian mercenary who tried to switch sides and fight for Ukraine circulated Sunday on Russian social media, where it was acknowledged by a top Kremlin-connected official who denounced the man as a traitor. The footage, which appears to show the man making a confession before he is killed with a sledgehammer as he is on the ground, emerged amid heightened finger-pointing inside Russia over setbacks of its armed forces in Ukraine and calls among nationalist hard-liners for more brutal methods to turn the tide in Moscow’s favor. The latest reversal saw Russian forces withdraw from Kherson, the only regional capital they captured this year.

☆ Israel Faces Pressure to Provide Air-Defense Systems to Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Alan Cullison | Dion Nissenbaum | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Pressure is building on Israel to send weapons to Ukraine, as Moscow steps up strikes against the country’s civilian infrastructure, and Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to review Israel’s approach to the conflict if he returns as prime minister as expected. Russia in recent weeks has been using drones supplied by Iran, Israel’s traditional enemy, as part of a punishing air campaign, which Kyiv says has affected more than 40% of Ukraine’s power grid. Ukrainian defense officials say Israeli expertise could be crucial in surviving Russia’s assault and are hopeful the U.S. ally is ready now to cooperate.

☆ Russia Blames Ukraine, U.K. for Collapse of Grain Deal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia blamed the U.K. and Ukraine for the collapse of the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian ports Sunday, as Russia said it recovered wreckage from a drone strike on the occupied Black Sea port of Sevastopol. Moscow said the wreckage proves the Saturday attack was mounted with British assistance, a claim the U.K. denies.

☆ NATO Allies Warn Russia Against ‘Dirty Bomb’ Plot in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Alan Cullison | Laurence Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Western officials were trying to decipher Moscow’s motives on Monday after jointly rejecting a Russian allegation that Kyiv is preparing to deploy a so-called dirty bomb in Ukraine. The U.S., France and U.K. warned Russia that “the world would see through any attempt to use this allegation as a pretext for escalation” of the war, in a statement issued late Sunday night.

☆ Vladimir Putin Plays for Time as Russian Forces Fall Back in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian soldiers firing at Russian positions in Ukraine’s Donetsk region last week. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is aggressively trying to prevent further losses in Ukraine by bombarding critical infrastructure and to avert disquiet at home by tightening social controls. The goal: hold on until the winter can give him enough pause to reboot his bogged-down invasion.

☆ Russia’s Putin Seeks to Escalate With Ukraine Strikes as Pressure Builds at Home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Alan Cullison | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Vladimir Putin’s missile strikes on cities throughout Ukraine Monday drew condemnation from the West but praise from a growing chorus in Russia—critics who say that Moscow, despite the brutality of its invasion, hasn’t shown enough toughness. Speaking hours after one of the broadest and most intense barrages of the war, Mr. Putin said Russia responded to a weekend attack on a key bridge that links Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow illegally seized in 2014, to Russia. Mr. Putin warned of a harsh response if Kyiv were to conduct further “terrorist attacks.”

☆ Russian Military-Recruitment Centers Attacked Amid Mobilization Pushback
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tensions grew in Russia over mobilization for the war in Ukraine on Monday as two military-recruitment centers came under attack and lines grew at the border with draft-age men seeking to leave the country. A Russian man opened fire at a military-recruiting station in Siberia, wounding its commander, hours after another man rammed a car into the entrance of a different recruitment center and set fire to it with Molotov cocktails.

☆ Protests Over Russia’s Draft Persist, as Authorities Concede Mobilization Errors
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Alan Cullison | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After President Putin’s order to mobilize troops for the war in Ukraine this month, people report to a military station in western Moscow. Pockets of protest flickered in the far-flung regions of Russia Sunday against President Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilize troops for Ukraine, a sign that dissent among the country’s ethnic minorities could be a persistent problem for what the Kremlin has signaled could be a prolonged war effort. On Sunday a group of mostly women protesters in Yakutia encircled police yelling “No to war,” and “No to genocide,” local media reported.

MOSCOW—Russians began reporting to military collection points in the thousands while others tried to flee the country as it emerged that the call-up for troops to fight in President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine could be wider than initially thought. Road traffic surged at border points leading out of Russia on Thursday, according to local media reports, and airline tickets are now sold out for days after Mr. Putin announced the call-up on Wednesday. At least four Russian regions announced that they had barred exit for men without the approval of their local military recruitment offices.

MOSCOW—Confronted by serious battlefield losses in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin did what he has often done before when facing setbacks: doubled down. In a nationally televised speech early Wednesday, an angry-sounding Mr. Putin said he would call up 300,000 reservists to bolster the war effort and hinted he would consider a nuclear strike, saying he would use “all the instruments at his disposal” to prevail.

MOSCOW—In a major escalation of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the threat of a nuclear response in the conflict in Ukraine and ordered the country’s reservists to mobilize as Moscow seeks to buttress his army’s flagging manpower and regain the offensive following stinging losses on the battlefield. “Russia will use all the instruments at its disposal to counter a threat against its territorial integrity, this is not a bluff,” Mr. Putin said in a national address that blamed the West for the continuing conflict in Ukraine where he said his troops were facing the best of Western troops and weapons.

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered reservists to mobilize and hinted that he would consider using nuclear weapons in the conflict, escalating the war in Ukraine following stinging losses on the battlefield and drawing harsh criticism from President Biden and a call for just punishment from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky . “Russia will use all the instruments at its disposal to counter a threat against its territorial integrity—this is not a bluff,” Mr. Putin said in a national address that blamed the West for the conflict in Ukraine, where he said his troops were facing the best of Western troops and weapons.

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