Putin is 'still convinced he can prevail' in Ukraine, and other nearby countries 'could be at risk of attack' if he wins, top Russia experts warn

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awarding ceremony for Russian team members who won medals at the Winter Paralympic games on March 17, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

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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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Top US diplomat warns that if Ukraine gives up territory to Russia in exchange for peace it will 'open a Pandora's box around the world'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 25, 2022.

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Top US general says Russia has already 'lost' the Ukraine war and has paid an 'enormous price on the battlefield'

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Gen. Mark Milley during a press conference at NATO HQ on February 14, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.

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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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Wagner Group's turn from prison recruitment could be effort to tap soldiers who might balk at 'serving with rapists and murderers,' historian says

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A group of people in military camouflage pose in front of the PMC Wagner Center.
Visitors wearing military camouflage pose at the entrance of the 'PMC Wagner Centre', which is associated with businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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White House mocks Putin's mismanagement of the war in Ukraine, saying he changes generals like 'socks'

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Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the Russian military's General Staff, September 13, 2021.

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Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show

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Demonstrators carry a carry a model of a prison cell with the cut-out figure of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in central Saint-Petersburg , on February 4, 2012.

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Russian state energy giant Gazprom is starting its own private security force, a move Ukraine fears will lead to a new Wagner-like mercenary army

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President Vladimir Putin, right, with Alexei Miller, CEO of state-controlled energy company Gazprom.

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Putin likely supplied the missile that downed flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, investigators say

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Lawyers attend the judges' inspection of the reconstruction of the MH17 wreckage, as part of the murder trial ahead of the beginning of a critical stage, on May 26, 2021 in Reijen, Netherlands.
Lawyers attend the judges' inspection of the MH17 wreckage, on May 26, 2021 in Reijen, Netherlands.

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