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☆ The Kremlin could pass a new rule making it the first in line to acquire the shares of certain companies trying to leave the country: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Kremlin could pass a new rule allowing it priority rights to acquire shares from exiting foreign firms. This would make it harder for foreign companies to leave the Russian market. Companies in the Kremlin's list of 200 strategic enterprises include food giant Danone and Finnish energy firm Fortum, per the Moscow Times. President Vladimir Putin's regime has also been imposing an increasing number of punitive measures on companies exiting the Russian market. Moscow also charges exiting companies an exit fee of at least 10% of the sale value.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, it's, Vladimir Putin's Organizations: Service, Kremlin, . Companies, Danone, Moscow Times, Financial Times, Interfax, Yale University, Novaya Gazeta Locations: Russian, Moscow, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Wagner suffered staggering losses in Ukraine, official says: 28% dead, a further 51% wounded, totaling 62K casualties in just over a year
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

28% of the Wagner Group's force sent to Ukraine was killed, according to a group official. A Wagner Group official identified as Marx said that 78,000 fighters went to Ukraine with the mercenary group, and 22,000 were killed, according to Telegram channel Razgruzka Vagnera. That means the Wagner Group had 62,000 casualties in total, according to the official's figures. The UK defense ministry on Friday also pointed to huge losses of Russian prisoners fighting in Ukraine. While the Wagner Group is not the only group that recruited prisoners for Ukraine, it was the most prolific group to do so.

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☆ Putin's military supply routes are being blocked by Russian tourists after he encouraged them to go on holiday in Crimea, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russian tourists are snarling up military supply routes near Crimea, a report said. The Institute for the Study of War described the Kerch bridge as one of two supply routes for Russian forces in southern Ukraine battling to resist a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian tourists in the resort town of Alushta on the Crimean peninsula on June 18, 2023. Despite this, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered Russian military vehicles to help ferry tourists to the location, it said. In the wake of Sunday's attack, Putin urged tourists to avoid the Kerch bridge and instead take the route through occupied east Ukraine.

Persons: OLGA MALTSEVA, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: Service, Kremlin, Institute for, Getty, Moscow Times, Daily Locations: Crimea, Crimean, Wall, Silicon, Kerch, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Russian, Alushta, AFP

☆ Russia is handing out leaflets trying to recruit more women to join its army: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Leaflets in Russia's Siberia are calling on women to join the army, per independent media. Women would potentially serve in occupied Ukraine "in the same ranks as men," The Moscow Times reported. 39,000 women currently serve in Russia's army, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. That same month, Russia's defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that 39,000 women were currently serving in Russia's armed forces, including 5,000 officers.

Persons: Sergei Shoigu Organizations: Moscow Times, Service, Russian Defense Ministry, Omsk Civil Association Locations: Siberia, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Omsk, Russian, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson

☆ Russia wants to tempt back the talented youth who ditched it for invading Ukraine, but hasn't figured out how, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Thousands, if not millions, of Russians have fled the country since it invaded Ukraine last year. Russian officials are now trying to get them to return, The Moscow Times reported. Now Russian officials are trying to lure them back, The Moscow Times reported. One politician suggested that Russians who come back should be investigated for treason, the report highlighted as an example. The Moscow Times reported that this prompted more Russian officials to make new open calls for citizens to come back.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, they've Organizations: Moscow Times, Service, UK Ministry of Defence Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia

☆ A former Wagner fighter described Prigozhin as a 'cocky idiot' who pitted soldiers against each other for personal gain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Wagner fighters have condemned Yevgeny Prigozhin for leading the armed revolt against Russia. One fighter, identified only as Roman, told the Moscow Times that Prigozhin is a "cocky idiot." He blamed the mercenary leader for pitting soldiers against each other for personal reasons. "My comrades and I fought for the country, not for some cocky idiot and his personal ambitions," Roman told the Moscow Times, referring to the infighting between Prigozhin and Russian military leaders that preceded the attempted rebellion. Another former Wagner fighter, identified only as Vlad, told the Moscow Times that he signed up for Wagner to "defend his country" and not "out of sympathy for Prigozhin."

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Roman, Vlad, Sergei Shoigu, Staff Valery Gerasimov Organizations: Russia, Moscow Times, Service, Wagner PMC, Prigozhin, Russian Defence, Russian, Staff Locations: Wall, Silicon, Moscow, Rostov, Belarus, Prigozhin, Bakhmut, Russian, Russia, Ukraine, St . Petersburg

☆ Putin 'can't afford to lose' Wagner boss Prigozhin because he's so crucial to Russia's global power, says retired US general
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Putin didn't punish Wagner boss for his uprising as he needs his fighters, a retired US general told CNN. Hertling also said the meeting between Putin and Prigozhin was likely "an attempt to get [Prigozhin] back on board." But he noted that there is "confusion," with the Wagner Group "being dispersed and, in fact, sort of broken up." The Wagner uprising came after months of public feuding between Prigozhin and Russian military officials, including Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov. After the group's mini mutiny, Wagner fighters in Russia were given the choice of going into exile in neighboring Belarus, joining Russia's traditional army, or going home.

Persons: Putin, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Mark Hertling, Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin, Hertling, that's, Sergei Shoigu, Staff Valery Gerasimov, It's, Wagner fighters Organizations: CNN, Kremlin, Service, Wagner, Russian Defence, Russian, Staff, Moscow Times Locations: Moscow, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Belarus, Syria, Africa, Russia

☆ Russia's top general appears for the first time since Wagner's mutiny as Putin tries to squash rumours he's caved into Prigozhin demands
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It's an apparent show that Vladimir Putin isn't giving in to demands he be replaced. Prigozhin agreed to call off the mutiny when he brokered a deal with the Kremlin and went into exile in Belarus. But the video released Monday appears to be a public show of support by the Kremlin for Gerasimov. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exposed deep rifts between key figures close to Putin. Before the mutiny, Prigozhin had accused military chiefs of failing to support his fighters, and of launching the invasion on false pretexts.

Persons: Vasily Gerasimov, It's, Wagner, Vladimir Putin isn't, Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Putin, Gerasimov, Sergei Shoigu, Sergey Surovikin, Surovikin Organizations: Service, Kremlin, Reuters, Moscow Times Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Belarus

☆ Ukraine marks 500 days of war by admitting it blew up Russia's bridge to Crimea
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Ukrainian official says the bridge to Crimea was targeted last year to disrupt Russian logistics. The bridge was seriously damaged after a truck rigged with explosives blew up while traveling on it. At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out a "terrorist act." She noted that Saturday marks 273 days since the "first strike" on the bridge, which was carried out "in order to break the logistics of the Russians." Ukrainian responsibility for the October 2022 attack has been an open secret.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Hanna Maliar, —, Mykhailo Podolyak, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, — Putin Organizations: Service, New York Times, Twitter, Moscow Times Locations: Crimea, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Kerch, Russia

☆ Russian 'troll factory' accused of interfering in US elections shuts down after exile of Wagner boss
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russia's "troll factory," accused of interfering in US elections, has been shut down. The factory was created by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the now-exiled leader of the Wagner mercenary group. The Moscow Times reported last week that — with Prigozhin gone — the Internet Research Agency was looking for new management. "I was never just a financier of the Internet Research Agency," he said. Nevskiye Novosti, a Patriot Media Group newspaper located in St. Petersburg, announced it shut down on Friday.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, —, Prigozhin, Yevgeny Zubarev —, Patriot Media Group —, Aleksandr Beglov, Andrei Krasnobayev, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: Service, Internet Research Agency, Moscow Times, Reuters, US Treasury Department, RIA, Patriot Media Group, Kremlin, Petersburg Gov, Radio Free, Novosti, Putin, Catering, Concord Catering, Time Locations: Russia, Moscow, Belarus, United States, St, Petersburg, Nevskiye Novosti, St . Petersburg, Russian, Concord, Prague

Colonel General Sergei Surovikin attends a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, on June 9, 2017. Rumors about his whereabouts — and his potential role in the short-lived insurrection — have been swirling in recent days. CNN has reached out to the Kremlin and Russian Ministry of Defense for comment on Surovikin’s whereabouts. Surovikin first served in Afghanistan in the 1980s before commanding a unit in the Second Chechen War in 2004. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces during Russia’s operations in Syria, which saw Russian combat aircraft causing widespread devastation in rebel-held areas.

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☆ Employees of a Moscow company were handed weapons as Wagner fighters approached the capital, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Moscow company handed employees weapons during the Wagner rebellion, a report said. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA Moscow company handed employees weapons as fighters from the Wagner private army approached the Russian capital on Saturday, The Moscow Times reported. The outlet said that rich Muscovites fled the city on private planes, while other armed themselves to fight, as soldiers bore down on the capital seeking to oust Russian military leaders. After a televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he branded the mutineers traitors and vowed to defeat them, one state-owned company handed out guns to employees, the outlet reported. Russian military and security services put up hasty barriers and dug up roads as they prepared to defend the capital from the fighters on Saturday.

Persons: Wagner, —, Muscovites, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Fighters, Moscow, Kremlin, Service, Moscow Times, Moscow's, Reuters Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Belarus

☆ There's blood in the water after Prigozhin's revolt shattered the façade of Putin's invincibility
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Jason Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

It represented the most significant affront to President Vladimir Putin's 23-year reign. It has also fed paranoia and put a spotlight on Aleksey Dyumin, Putin's ex-bodyguard turned governor. A brief and ultimately aborted attempt at a coup d'état by Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin represented the most significant affront to President Vladimir Putin's 23-year reign. President Vladimir Putin (L) and Aleksey Dyumin, the governor of Tula and Putin's former personal bodyguard, in Moscow in 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Tula Governor Aleksey Dyumin visit Russian writer Lev Tolstoy's former home in 2016.

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☆ A former Russian diplomat says the attempted Wagner mutiny is 'just another step' toward Putin's eventual ouster
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Boris Bondarev told Newsweek he believes the Wagner mutiny will hasten Putin's ouster. His war was from the very beginning doomed," Boris Bondarev told Newsweek on Tuesday. He quit his post in May 2022 after criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine. The Wagner Group's mutiny erupted after a long-running feud between its chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Russian military leadership. In the lead-up to the attempted mutiny, the mercenary group leader had been growing increasingly critical of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Persons: Boris Bondarev, Wagner, Bondarev, —, Wagner Group's, Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Prigozhin's Organizations: Newsweek, Service, UN, Moscow Times, Foreign Affairs, Russian, The New York Times, Russian Embassy, Times, Defense Ministry Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Geneva, Switzerland, Belarus

☆ Rumors Grow That Top Russian General With Wagner Ties Was Arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Russian general who knew of Wagner's uprising plans hasn't been seen in days. Gen. Surovikin knew Prigozhin was planning an uprising against Russian military leadership, NYT reported. Surovikin is a top commander in the Ukraine war and rumors grew he may have been arrested. A Russian military blogger also claimed that Surovikin had been arrested, and taken to a notorious prison. Wagner's insurrection posed a dire threat to Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense's leadership, although ending in retreat and a murky peace deal between Prigozhin and Russian leadership.

Persons: hasn't, Surovikin, Prigozhin, —, Wagner, Sergey Surovikin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin wouldn't, Vladimir Putin, Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin Organizations: Russian, Service, The New York Times, Times, Moscow Times, Staff, Russian Ministry, Defense's Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Moscow, Prigozhin

☆ Analysis: Where are Russia's top generals? Rumours swirl after mercenary mutiny
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Valery Gerasimov, Russia's top general, has not appeared in public or on state TV since the aborted mutiny on Saturday when mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin demanded Gerasimov be handed over. Gerasimov, 67, is the commander of Russia's war in Ukraine, and the holder of one of Russia's three "nuclear briefcases," according to some Western military analysts. Rybar, an influential channel on the Telegram messaging application run by a former Russian defence ministry press officer, said a purge was underway. Surovikin, Gerasimov's deputy, was last seen on Saturday when he appeared in a video appealing to Prigozhin to halt his mutiny. He had been spoken of by Russian war correspondents as a potential future defence minister.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, Mikhail Kuravlev, Putin, Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Gerasimov, Sergei Surovikin, Surovikin, Rybar, Wagner, Prigozhin, Michael Kofman, Viktor Zolotov, Shoigu, Alexei Venediktov, vilifying Shoigu, Andrew Osborn, Mike Collett, White, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Staff of Russian Armed Forces, Defence Ministry Board, Sputnik, REUTERS, LONDON, New York Times, Wednesday, Moscow Times, Reuters, Russian Armed Forces, Carnegie Endowment, Twitter, National Guard, Moscow, Tuesday, Western, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, Kremlin, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Moscow's, Chechnya, Syria

☆ Where are Russian generals Gerasimov and Surovikin after Wagner rebellion?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Absent from view too is General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed "General Armageddon" by the Russian press for his aggressive tactics in the Syrian conflict, who is deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine. Rybar, an influential channel on the Telegram messaging application run by a former Russian defence ministry press officer, said a purge was underway. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov attend an annual meeting of the Defence Ministry Board in Moscow, Russia, December 21, 2022. Dara Massicot, an expert in the Russian military at the RAND Corporation think-tank, said that something looked odd about the video, in which Surovikin has an automatic weapon on his lap. "Surovikin (is) a brute but also one of the more capable Russian commanders," Freedman said on Twitter.

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☆ How Sergei Shoigu, Putin’s embattled one-time bestie, rose to the top of Russia’s military and survived the Wagner rebellion that called for his head
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Sophia Ankel | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Shoigu was born in 1955 in the remote town of Chadan in Siberia. The Soviet Union was a world power and the Cold War just beginning. A man outside the former central temple for Buddhists of Tuva, near the settlement of Chadan, in Russia's Tuva region. Ilya Naymushin/ReutersThe town is close to the Mongolian border. Shoigu's mother was Russian but born in Ukraine, while his father was Tuvan — an ethnic group that is indigenous to Siberia.

Persons: Shoigu, Ilya Naymushin Organizations: Moscow Locations: Chadan, Siberia, Soviet, Tuva, Russia's Tuva, Mongolian, Russian, Ukraine

☆ A Russian far-right party made an AI chatbot of its dead leader which makes predictions about the Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian ultranationalist party has made an AI chatbot of deceased leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The chatbot answers questions about the Ukraine war. According to The Moscow Times, people can ask the chatbot questions, and it makes "predictions" about key world events. At Thursday's event, the outlet said, the chatbot predicted that the war in Ukraine would continue until "peace and the Russian people's safety are fully restored." Putin paid tribute to Zhirinovsky after his death, and made a rare public appearance to attend his funeral last April.

Persons: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Zhirinovsky, —, ultranationalist, Max Seddon, Alexander Dupin, Lenta.ru, Dupin, Vladimir Putin's, Putin Organizations: Service, Liberal Democrat, St ., Economic, Moscow Times, Financial Times, University of World Civilizations, Duma Locations: Russian, Ukraine, St . Petersburg, St, Moscow, USSR, Russia

☆ Russia is charging foreign business execs over $25,000 to attend its version of Davos — but nobody really wants to be seen there in the first place
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Most attendees hail from the ex-Soviet states, Africa, Cuba, and the UAE, per the Moscow Times. But it's still charging foreign participants over $25,000 to attend, which appears to baffle even the forum's own organizers. "The main problem for the 2023 organizers is to scrape together participants," a forum organizer told The Moscow Times on Thursday. "Although it serves no real purpose, this forum will never be abandoned," a manager at another major Russian state-owned company told The Moscow Times. Organizers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin's Organizations: UAE, Moscow Times, Service, St ., Economic, United Arab Emirates, The Moscow Times Locations: Davos, Africa, Cuba, Moscow, St, St . Petersburg, Ukraine, Swiss, Russian, Europe, Petersburg

☆ Russian soldiers really did stand still for 2 hours for their commander's speech, leaving them sitting ducks for a HIMARS strike, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russian soldiers stood still for two hours, making them sitting ducks, a Ukrainian official said. Russian bloggers were angry after reports said the soldiers stood in the open waiting for a speech. The Ukrainian official said it was more than enough time to transport HIMARS and "hit them." Rybar said the attack, which he said involved HIMARS and Ukraine's artillery, happened in the city of Kreminna, in Luhansk. Another Russian blogger, who goes by the name Two Majors, wrote: "Stand in a column for two hours in one place!

Persons: —, Rybar, Insider's Sam Fellman, Russian milbloggers, Matthew Loh, Russia's, Sam Fellman Organizations: Service, Ukraine's High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, Kyiv, Arms Army, Moscow Times Locations: Kyiv, Russian, Kreminna, Luhansk, Ukraine

☆ Russian military bloggers are losing their minds over reports that a Russian unit was blasted by artillery while waiting 2 hours for their commander to give a motivational speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russian pro-war bloggers are livid over a report that a unit was made to wait hours for a commander's speech. The Russian division came under fire from Ukrainian HIMARS while gathering, per the bloggers. According to the military blogger Rybar, the incident occurred in Kreminna, Luhansk, just before a Russian division was about to begin an assault. Another Russian military blogger known by a pseudonym, Older than Edda, had harsh words for the unidentified commander. The claim comes as Russian military bloggers grow increasingly frustrated with the Kremlin's military mistakes in Ukraine, amid continued reports documenting failures or oversights that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Russian soldiers.

Persons: haven't, —, Rybar, General Suhrab Akmedov, Ahmedov Organizations: Russian, Service, Moscow Times, Radio Free, Russia's 155th Marine Brigade, Pacific Fleet Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Kreminna, Luhansk, Russia's, Donetsk, Ahmedov, Ukraine

☆ Head of Russia's notorious Wagner Group wrote a children's book that takes place in a land of tiny people
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Peter Gelling | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The head of a Russian mercenary group fighting in Ukraine once wrote a children's book. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, is accused of atrocities across multiple continents. But before that, he wrote a children's book about a tiny man finding his way back to his family. He's also, The Moscow Times reports, a children's book author. It was in 2004 that he undertook the writing of a children's book with his two young kids.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, —, Vladimir Putin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Indraguzik, Konstantin Kalachev Organizations: Wagner, Service, Moscow Times Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Prigozhin, Africa, Russia's, Syria, Libya

☆ Putin is terrified of being assassinated and is refusing to travel abroad after a drone attack near his luxury home: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The report said Putin was so scared of being assassinated that he was refusing to travel abroad. Dmitry Medvedev, a Kremlin official and former Russian president, said a drone attack on the Kremlin in May was a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate Putin, which Ukraine denied. Ingram's comments echo those of a former Kremlin security official, Gleb Karakulov, who fled Russia in April in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Ingram said Putin's isolation meant he was only being presented with distorted information by a group of close aides, warping his decision-making. Ingram said Putin would like to portray himself as an "international statesman" who asserts himself on the global stage.

Persons: Vladimir Putin's, Putin, —, Vladimir Putin, Verstka, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Medvedev, Philip Ingram, Ingram, MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV, Gleb Karakulov, RFERL, wouldn't Organizations: Service, International Criminal Court, Moscow Times, Kremlin, British Military, SPUTNIK, Getty, ICC, Reuters Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Hague, Novo, Ukrainian, Russia, Saint Petersburg, London, COVID, India, South Africa, China

☆ A freight train suspiciously went off the rails after a reported explosion in Russian-occupied Crimea, and the railway is blaming 'outsiders'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A freight train suspiciously went off rails after a reported explosion in Russian-occupied Crimea. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA freight train suspiciously went off rails after a reported explosion in Russian-occupied Crimea, and railway authorities have blammed "outsiders." Eight trains were derailed, The Moscow Times reported. Before the derailment, Russian security services reported an explosion on the railway line, The Guardian reported. The Moscow Times reported that Russia has reported several acts of railway sabotage in recent months.

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