A broadcast ban for Russian media was introduced by the European Union shortly after the Kremlin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jan/21/russia-ukraine-war-ukrainians-to-train-on-leopard-2-tanks-despite-lack-of-agreement-on-supply-live

A leading pro-democracy campaigner and Kremlin critic has been sentenced to 25 years in a Russian penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine after a show trial that has been compared with the most brutal excesses of the Stalin era.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11983077/IAN-BIRRELL-breathtaking-courage-Vladimir-Putins-latest-trial-victim.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Also on Friday, the Kremlin announced that Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in the upcoming weeks.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/08/ukraines-zelenskyy-meets-turkish-fm-black-sea-pressure-rises

Amid the fighting in Bakhmut, Prigozhin has continued to demand that the Kremlin supply him with ammunition.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11898015/Wagner-mercenaries-refocus-Africa-huge-losses-Ukraine-amid-fall-Putin.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

A month later, and almost three years since Samantha Smith wrote to the Kremlin, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva, Switzerland, agreeing to intensify discussions between the superpowers.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/the-girl-who-tried-to-bring-peace-between-the-us-and-the-soviet-union/

Analysts are divided on whether the May 3 drone incident at the Kremlin was a genuine attack or a “false flag” concocted to justify increasing the ferocity of Russia’s missile barrages in Ukraine.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/08/war-shadows-victory-day-russias-integral-holiday/

A Russian company today said it will offer five million roubles (£58,000) in cash to the first soldiers who destroy or capture Western tanks in Ukraine after the Kremlin vowed that any allied armoured vehicles shipped to Kyiv would 'burn'.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11691539/Russian-company-offers-cash-reward-troops-destroy-capture-Western-tanks-Ukraine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

“As a result of timely actions taken by military and special services using electronic warfare systems, the drones were disabled,” the Kremlin stated.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/no_author/the-kremlin-under-drone-attack-failed-attempt-to-assassinate-president-putin/

As it slaughters people abroad, the Kremlin is increasingly more paranoid at home.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/04/russia-gershkovich-detained-journalist-putin-war/

As Russian losses in Ukraine deepened last year, the Kremlin drafted hundreds of unfit, middle-age men in Irkutsk Oblast in southern Siberia, gave them a month of cursory training and formed a new army unit—the 1439th Regiment.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/07/unjustified-losses-a-regiment-of-demoralized-russian-draftees-begs-vladimir-putin-for-mercy-but-putin-isnt-listening/

Assassinations and mysterious deaths routinely befall high-profile Russians who fall out of favour with the Kremlin, but this option would cause more problems than it would solve for Putin, Bertina told Metro.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/27/putin-cannot-simply-liquidate-wagner-masterminds-after-mutiny-19023056/

“Because the Kremlin can break the security and peace of all who are represented here in Munich.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1735914/ukraine-live-vladimir-puton-zircon-hypersonic-russia-munich-conference-nato

Beijing has refrained from condemning Moscow’s operation against Ukraine or calling it an “invasion” in line with the Kremlin, which describes the war as a “special military operation” designed to protect Russia’s own security.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9499760/ukraine-war-china-deeply-worried-about-escalation-conflict/

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 25, 2023.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/335834/belarus-prez-promises-nuclear-weapons-to-everyone.html

Belarus's dictator Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that he talked Vladimir Putin out of executing Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin for his uprising against the Kremlin.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1786085/I-stopped-Putin-executing-Wagner-leader-claims-Belarus-dictator

Both men are seen as possible successors to Putin's Kremlin throne and have vied to curry favour with the Russian strongman.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1777045/russia-army-army-civil-war-chechens-wagner-putin-ukraine

• But a rift is growing in its relationship with the Kremlin.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/f2d43f2ad2173097?ref=ff

But, as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to Zaluzhny’s assessment, “No, it has not reached a stalemate.”

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/11/06/ukraine-has-lost-the-war/

But even he demonstrates a defiance forged by Kremlin atrocities that leads those not fighting to give time and money to support the armed forces.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12818211/As-devastating-war-Ukraine-approaches-two-year-mark-IAN-BIRRELL-goes-Kyiv-moral-holding-verdict-Despite-mounting-casualties-beat-Putin-burns-brighter-ever.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But even if China continues to limit its involvement to the role of Kremlin apologist and gadfly would-be peacemaker, the impact on tensions between America and China may help ensure the war in Ukraine continues to expand in ways no one can control.

Source: https://time.com/6259621/china-ukraine-war-peace-plan-consequences/