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Tens of thousands of people have died since Putin sent in the troops in 2022. Ukraine’s president has spoken of 46,000 Ukrainian military deaths, but open source site ualosses.org suggests the number is close to 74,000. More than 12,900 civilians have lost their lives in Ukraine, according to the UN, which says the true toll … Read more

Russia’s attempt to stop Ukraine leaving its sphere of influence goes back years, and its initial invasion began in 2014 when pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted after months of mass demonstrations. Yanukovych had abandoned an EU deal under Putin’s pressure, prompting protests that ended when snipers shot dead dozens of demonstrators. Yanukovych soon fled … Read more

Putin has for years complained about Nato’s eastward expansion as a security threat, and sees any possibility of Ukraine joining the alliance as a major red line. Before Russia’s 2022 invasion he demanded that Nato remove multinational deployments from the Central and Eastern European states that joined the Western alliance after 1997. But it was … Read more

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, his aim was to sweep into the capital, Kyiv, in a matter of days. He wanted to overthrow the pro-Western government and return Ukraine to Russia’s sphere of influence. Putin failed but, more than three years on, a fifth of Ukrainian territory is … Read more

Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An … Read more

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