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Russia says it will destroy fighter jets sent to Ukraine​

''Russia said on Friday that all fighter jets supplied to Ukraine by Western nations would be destroyed after NATO members Poland and Slovakia pledged to send MiG-29 jets to Kyiv.''

Moscow has accused the West of directly participating in the conflict through supplying weapons to Ukraine, and has warned before that NATO weapons were legitimate targets for its forces.

“In the course of the special military operation all this equipment will be subject to destruction,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“It feels like all of these countries are thus engaged in the disposal of old unnecessary equipment,” he said.''
 
''The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations of atrocities during its one-year invasion of its neighbour. A spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry said the arrest warrant had "no significance whatsoever."

"The decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, including from a legal point of view," spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel. "Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and bears no obligations under it."

The ICC issued the warrant for Putin's arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

Putin is only the third serving president to have been issued an ICC arrest warrant, after Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.''

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-russia-orphans-adoption-1.6756764
''The open adoption of Ukrainian children by Russian families is an emotionally explosive topic in Ukraine.

Piliarska and her staff falsified the children's medical records, giving them fake medical conditions that made it appear they were too ill to be moved from the neonatal ward, let alone hundreds of kilometres east to Russia.

"I was very afraid," Piliarska told CBC News through an interpreter at the bomb-scarred hospital, which has been hit three times recently by Russia shelling.''
 

Putin arrest warrant: What it means and what could happen next​


That means Putin will not be able to travel to any possible future peace talks if they are held in a country that recognises the ICC.

What international repercussions will Putin face after arrest warrant?​


CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks with David Scheffer, former US Ambassador for War Crimes in the Clinton administration, and Beth Sanner, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, about the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin will be ‘haunt(ed) for the rest of his life’ by warrant, former ambassador says​


Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the warrant’s international legal standing and potential Chinese involvement with Russia in its war.
 
MAR 18, 2023
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Facing arrest warrant, Russia's Putin visits annexed Crimea

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.

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Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move that most of the world denounced as illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded that Russia withdraw from the peninsula as well as the areas it has occupied since last year.

Putin has shown no intention of relinquishing the Kremlin’s gains. Instead, he stressed Friday the importance of holding Crimea.

“Obviously, security issues take top priority for Crimea and Sevastopol now,” he said, referring to Crimea’s largest city. “We will do everything needed to fend off any threats.”

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MAR 17, 2023
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How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians

Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol , and she was going out of her mind with worry.
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Russian law prohibits the adoption of foreign children without consent of the home country, which Ukraine has not given. But in May, Putin signed a decree making it easier for Russia to adopt and give citizenship to Ukrainian children without parental care — and harder for Ukraine and surviving relatives to win them back.

Russia also has prepared a register of suitable Russian families for Ukrainian children, and pays them for each child who gets citizenship — up to $1,000 for those with disabilities. It holds summer camps for Ukrainian orphans, offers “patriotic education” classes and even runs a hotline to pair Russian families with children from Donbas.

“It is absolutely a terrible story,” said Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the Mariupol mayor, who claims hundreds of children were taken from that city alone. “We don’t know if our children have an official parent or (stepparents) or something else because they are forcibly disappeared by Russian troops.”
 
MAR 19, 2023
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Putin makes surprise trip to Mariupol, symbol of Ukrainian tenacity

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol , his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September and a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September and a show of defiance after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges.

Putin arrived in Mariupol late Saturday after visiting Crimea, southwest of Mariupol, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. He was shown chatting with Mariupol residents and visiting an art school and a children’s center in Sevastopol, Crimea.
 

Vladimir Putin visits occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol​


Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first visit to Ukrainian territory occupied since last year's invasion, touring the city of Mariupol in the southeast of the country. He made what state media described as a "working trip" to the port city in Donetsk, which was annexed in September last year.

‘Russia continues to pay severely’: Top US general on Ukraine war​


Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed the state of the war in Ukraine after they attended the tenth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

Ukrainians Use 1970s Mortars In Donbas Battle​


Ukrainian troops use whatever comes to hand in their battles against invading Russian forces. RFE/RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir visited a unit near Soledar, in eastern Ukraine, armed with French mortars dating from 1973.
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-64993665

''Summary​

  1. China's President Xi Jinping has sat down for talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, kickstarting a highly anticipated two-day visit
  2. The Russian leader welcomed his "dear friend" to Russia, before saying he had studied Beijing's 12-point peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine
  3. Xi commended Putin's "strong leadership" and said he was sure the Russian people would re-elect him at Russia's 2024 presidential election
  4. It is Xi's first visit to Russia since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022 - he's due to have an informal one-to-one with Putin today, and hold formal talks on Tuesday
  5. The trip is taking place days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin for alleged war crimes
  6. Western countries have previously warned Beijing against supplying Moscow with weapons''
 
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-03-20/russian-missiles-destroyed-in-occupied-crimea-ukraine-says
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The attack on Dzhankoi demonstrates both the Russians’ vulnerability and the Ukrainians’ capacity to strike deep behind enemy lines.

Ukrainian authorities stopped short of publicly claiming responsibility for the blast, preferring to keep the world guessing, but a defence ministry statement said the Russian Kalibr NK cruise missiles were blown up while being transported by rail.
 

Inflatable tanks, missiles: Czech firm makes decoy armaments​

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A Czech company, Inflatech, is producing more than 30 different inflatable military decoys ranging from tanks and armored vehicles to aircraft and howitzers. They also offer decoy versions of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket systems, that were among the billions of dollars in Western military aid that has helped Ukraine’s war effort since Russia launched its invasion just over a year ago.
 
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