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Putin Dismisses Ukraine's Offer: Russia Won't Pause Long-Range Strikes | Dawn News English

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected Ukraine's proposal for a mutual halt to long-range strikes, arguing that it would distract from Moscow's military objectives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn News English is your window into the latest news, insight, and features from South Asia and beyond. Website: www.dawn.com Official Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/dawnnewsenglish Official Twitter: https://x.com/dawnnewsenglish Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnnewsenglish #russiaukrainewar #geopolitics #internationalrelations #globalsecurity #peacetalks #militarystrategy #europeansecurity #worldnews #Ukraine #russia #news #latestnews #dawnnewsenglish #dawnnews

Furious Putin attempts to quell panic in Russia as Ukraine hits two dozen oil tankers on top as well as refineries in just one week

Furious Putin attempts to quell panic in Russia as Ukraine hits two dozen oil tankers on top as well as refineries in just one week

Decoding Putin

Vladmir Putin’s Russia Day remarks, delivered to decorated soldiers inside the Kremlin, rely on false claims that NATO is at war with Russia and that Moscow is advancing in Ukraine. In this article we break down the meaning, examine the lies, and explain the realities that Russia is masking losses, inventing threats and leaning on paranoid narratives to hide a weakening position.

The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Scott Horton: How Evil Is the American Empire?

Putin says Russia is in a “challenging period,” but the more revealing question is what comes next when a war stops feeling like a crisis and starts running on autopilot. We unpack why Russia can look simultaneously steady and stuck: not prone to emotional swings, yet still locked into a slow, costly grind where drone []

Press review: Trump-Putin call as Russian troops advance while US-Russia OPCW talks fail

Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, July 6th

Russian Hardliners Urge Putin to Drop U.S. Talks After Ukraine Drone Strikes

Russian nationalist hardliners are urging President Vladimir Putin to escalate the war in Ukraine and abandon U.S.-mediated talks after a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes reached deep into Russia.

🇷🇺⚡️ — Reuters reports that in Moscow, hardliners are allegedly urging Putin to abandon diplo [...]

— Reuters reports that in Moscow, hardliners are allegedly urging Putin to abandon diplomacy and escalate the conflict, including by launching nuclear strikes.They have previously called on the Kremlin leader to consider various harsh measures, up to the assassination of Zelensky and the use of tactical nuclear weapons.According to the same Reuters, the Kremlin is currently resisting calls to abandon negotiations and other radical proposals.In the West, it seems that they are seriously considering the statements of ex-generals who have been given a microphone to entertain them, who are completely detached from reality.@Intelslava

Putin is running out of options

The Russian leader may want to escalate his war — but that is harder than it sounds

Is Putin Misleading Trump?

"Putin is trying to MISINFORM Trump." Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik says Russia has no intention of ending the war and is using false promises to delay stronger US pressure.

Putin says Russia will press on with front-line campaign

President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia will press ahead with its battlefield aim of fully capturing four Ukrainian regions, rejecting what he said was a new proposal by Ukraine to rein in hostilities in the more than four-year-old war. Putin, speaking to a Russian state ‌television interviewer, also said Russia needed to boost its air defense capacity to counter intensified Ukrainian drone attacks aimed mainly at its oil industry. He said Russia was coping well in tackling fuel supply

Russians are growing anxious and angry

The war has come home and is everyone’s problem

NATO’s former second-in-command says what the alliance won’t: only Russia’s defeat ends the war

He warned about Russia a decade ago. Now he's inside Ukraine's command—still pushing for the strategy NATO won't write.

Moscow rebukes Seoul for anti-Russia moves, military drills near North Korea

A senior Moscow official criticized South Korea for aligning with the West in its “attacks” on Russia in a meeting with Seoul’s ambassador, accusing the ROK of stoking tensions in the DPRK and urging his country to end sanctions against Pyongyang. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, Moscow’s top diplomat overseeing Korean Peninsula affairs among other []

'Putin cannot rely on his own military’: Russian veteran jailed after threatening armed revolt

Sky News Defence Analyst Peter Jennings says Russian President Vladimir Putin “can’t rely” on his own military amid growing unrest throughout the nation. ​“I think the most telling statistic here is that the Russians are losing between 30,000 and 35,000 people killed in battle every month,” Mr Jennings told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. ​“What this Russian individual, Alexander Lunin, has done has just pointed to the unsustainability of Russian military tactics. ​“That video was three years to the day from the Wagner Group’s brief revolution against the Russian government. ​“Lunin’s future itself is probably pretty bleak… but I think the message that Putin will be taking from it is that he can’t rely on his own military.”

Zelenskyy warns of fresh massive Russian strike, urges allies to speed up air defence support

Intelligence once again indicates that the Russians are preparing a new massive strike. This is typical of Putin: right after America's Independence Day and before the NATO Summit in Ankara. Russia wants to bring more evil and kill people, Zelenskyy said.

Russia warns Baltic states of countermeasures if they deploy nuclear weapons

Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned that Russia would take countermeasures against the Baltic states if they move forward with plans to station nuclear weapons on their soil.

Paranoid Putin moves air defences to Moscow after wave of drone attacks

Recent Ukrainian drone attacks crippled Moscow's oil refinery.

Lavrov: Russia No Longer Trusts Western Calls for Ukraine Peace Talks

Russia will no longer trust statements by Western countries about their desire to negotiate a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. We will no longer believe the West when it says it wants negotiated solutions. That reserve of goodwill and hope has been exhausted completely, the diplomat said. Lavrov Accuses the West of Imitating Peace Efforts The minister also accused Western countries of merely imitating a desire for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. According to him, European states have moved away from discussing negotiations and have instead begun issuing open ultimatums to Russia.

Russia touts ‘war with NATO’ amid losses in Ukraine

As Russia faces challenges on the frontlines and at home, President Putin's backers decry Kyiv's Western allies.

Putin Is Slipping Into Delusion

When things get dicey in Moscow, Vladimir Putin tends to drop out of sight for a while, retreating to one of his residences and canceling public events. Only his closest aides know how he spends his time during these absences, which can go on for days even in the middle of a national crisis. The Kremlin does its best to fill the vacant airtime on state TV with pretaped footage of the president, waiting for him to reemerge and declare that everything remains under his control.

Putin keen to offset bad news on Crimea by capture of Kostyantynivka, as Russians advance by crawling between houses (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,582)

Putin is betting on seizing Kostyantynivka to shift attention from Crimea. Intensified Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure threaten to sap his capacity to sustain a long, attritional push in Donbas.

“Russia Is Ready for War”: Putin’s Warning as Former CIA Analyst Says NATO Escalation Could Trigger Direct Conflict

Larry Johnson tells Glenn Diesen that the conflict in Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, arguing Moscow increasingly views NATO as a direct participant rather than a distant backer—and warning that the margin for diplomacy is rapidly disappearing. Joshua Scheer Has the war in Ukraine reached a point where Russia no longer sees itself []

Ian Bremmer on BizNews: Why a frustrated Putin is the world's next big risk

Ian Bremmer on BizNews: Why a frustrated Putin is the world's next big risk

‘Saving the Kyiv regime isn’t part of our plans’: Putin on Ukraine, fuel shortages, and Trump

On the evening of June 28, the Kremlin released a 25-minute “interview” with Vladimir Putin conducted by propagandist Pavel Zarubin. In the published video, Putin is visibly looking away from the correspondent, reading his answers off a teleprompter. The Kremlin’s press service made no mention of Zarubin by name, identifying him only as “a Russian journalist.” During the “interview,” Putin said that Russia’s fuel shortage was “not critical” and that the government intended to address it by ramping up air defense production. He also said Ukraine had put forward a new peace proposal — both sides would halt strikes deep into each other’s territory — but that the Kremlin had already rejected it. Here are the main points of his remarks.

Pummelled by Ukraine, Russia says US hasn’t delivered on Trump-Putin ‘understandings’

Russia has accused the US of failing to deliver on “understandings” reached between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, a shift that suggests growing frustration in Moscow. In the space of three days, three senior Russian officials have said, without providing specifics, that Washington has not followed through. Their comments follow an intensification of Ukraine’s drone strikes deep inside Russia – including two attacks last week on a Moscow oil...

Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing new large-scale attack on Ukraine

Hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Sunday that Russia is going to launch a new large-scale attack on the country, Russia launched waves of missiles and drones targeting Kyiv overnight into Monday that killed at least seven people, authorities said. #zelensky #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #news Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

‘It is a crisis’: Putin taking rare heat at home for Ukraine quagmire

Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country. Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, and mounting military casualties are prompting prominent figures to start pinning []...Click to read more

Russian forces threaten linchpin of Ukraine's 'fortress belt'

Russia is grinding its way into Kostiantynivka, a key stronghold in Ukraine's eastern "fortress belt" long coveted by the Kremlin, even as its gains across the rest of the 1,200-km front line have largely stalled. #ukraine #russia #war #fortress #kostiantynivka

‘It is a crisis’: Putin under increasing pressure from Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country. Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, and mounting military casualties are prompting prominent figures to start pinning the blame...

Putin’s ‘Explosive’ New Humiliation Is Leaked

Anastasia Barashkova/Pool via ReutersVladimir Putin could face a humiliating new setback as his war risks creating a banking crisis in Russia, according to a new report. The bloodthirsty Kremlin dictator launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. The “special military operation,” as he called it, has become a protracted war with stubborn Ukraine not bowing to Russia’s imperial ambitions. This protraction, of course, costs money—meaning Putin has created a bubble that could soon burst, a European state intelligence report seen ​by Reuters has warned. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Russia Pressing Enemy Along Ukraine Front Line — Putin

Russia is pressing the enemy along the entire front line in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with graduates of higher military schools.

Kremlin: Putin to discuss Zelensky's threats against Belarus with Lukashenko

Kremlin: Putin to discuss Zelensky's threats against Belarus with Lukashenko

Trump kicks off NATO summit with his favorite pro-Kremlin falsehood

The president seems desperate to convince Americans that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine doesn’t affect them. But reality proves otherwise. The post Trump kicks off NATO summit with his favorite pro-Kremlin falsehood appeared first on MS NOW.

Could this man change Russia? | The Economist

Why is Russia’s top oligarch speaking out now? Andrey Melnichenko, one of Russia’s richest men, spoke to The Economist’s Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, for almost 60 hours. Melnichenko lays out the pressures the country is under and how it needs to change. #russia #putin #ukraine Read more: bit.ly/4f6fQoj Subscribe to The Economist: https://econ.st/3Mia0pz Download The Economist app: https://econ.st/4qdVVaA Follow us on X: https://x.com/TheEconomist Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeconomist Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist

Russian Hawks Urge Putin To Escalate War, Drop U.S. Talks As Ukraine Strikes Deep

Calls for tougher measures are not new.

Sweden: Russian Threat Will Outlast Vladimir Putin

Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) reported that Russia is likely to remain a security threat long after President Vladimir Putin (73) leaves office, describing Moscow's confrontation with the West as deep, structural, and enduring.

Putin Vows to Continue Russia’s Ukraine Offensive

President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will continue its efforts to fully capture four Ukrainian regions, dismissing Ukraine’s recent proposal to ease hostilities in the ongoing war. In a televised interview, he emphasized the need to enhance Russia’s air defense to respond to increased Ukrainian drone attacks targeting its oil industry. Despite acknowledging fuel shortages [] The post Putin Vows to Continue Russia’s Ukraine Offensive appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.