Ex-Russian commander who helped invade Crimea trashes Putin's war speech for leaving out all of Russia's failures in Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Pro-Putin pundits are furious Biden made a surprise trip to Kyiv, calling it a 'humiliation' for Russia

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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks on the phone as part of a nationwide charity campaign, in Moscow on January 3, 2023.

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The White House gave Russia 'hours' notice that Joe Biden was making a surprise trip to Ukraine

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30,000 Wagner Group fighters have been killed or injured in Putin's invasion of Ukraine, says White House spokesman

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Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in military gear with several others, whose faces have been blurred, in what Russian state media described as the salt mines of Soledar, eastern Ukraine, on January 10 2022.
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in what Russian state media described as the salt mines of Soledar, eastern Ukraine, on January 10 2022.

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A top Russian military official is dead after falling out of a 16th-floor window, the latest in a string of untimely deaths

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022.

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Several of Putin's homes have been connected to railway lines with secret stations built nearby for his armored train: report

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Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a suburban train in Moscow, Russia, in November 2019.

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Putin's war on Ukraine sent Russians scrambling to buy gold and stash their savings, fueling a fivefold surge in demand

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Gold coins

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Ex-Gazprom official says decades of the Russian gas giant's work has been 'flushed down the toilet', with export revenues expected to halve this year

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State-owned energy company Gazprom has slashed the supply of natural gas to Europe.

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China is ramping up Russian oil imports and Beijing could greenlight even more volumes

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Putin's rumored girlfriend called Russia's media a 'military weapon' and compared its importance to an AK-47

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Russian politician and former Olympic Champion, Alina Kabaeva, aplauds as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (not pictured) delivers his speech at the congress of the United Russia Party November, 27, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
Russian politician and former Olympic Champion, Alina Kabaeva, aplauds as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (not pictured) delivers his speech at the congress of the United Russia Party November, 27, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.

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