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UN team ‘shocked’ but ‘safe’ after strikes hit Kyiv during Guterres visit

Kyiv officials said Ukraine's capital was hit by Russian missile strikes on Thursday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier, US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve an additional $33 billion in military and economic assistance to "help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression".…

France 24

Vladimir Putin warns ‘we have tools no one else can boast of and we will use them’

Vladimir Putin issued the threat in an address to the Council of Legislators in St Petersburg

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin hints he'll use nukes with 'lightning fast' response if Russia threatened

Addressing lawmakers in St Petersburg, a fuming Putin claimed the West wants to cut Russia up into different pieces and threatened his nation would respond quickly if others interfere in Ukraine

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Russia Loses 2023 Ice Hockey World Championship over Ukraine

Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St. Petersburg in Russia, governing body IIHF said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The tournament was scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg from May 5-21.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ice hockey: Russia loses 2023 world championship

Next year's ice hockey world championship will be moved away from St Petersburg in Russia, the International Ice Hockey Federation said on Tuesday, due to concerns about the well-being of players and officials after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

John Romano: Is it possible the new favorite for a Rays stadium is the same old site?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Here, on the precipice of a city’s future, they are selling Cracker Jack.

Tribune News Service

Russian general killed on battlefield in Ukraine, says St Petersburg’s governor

Major General Vladimir Frolov was given a military funeral at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St Petersburg on Saturday

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Manhunt for three men caught on doorbell camera carrying dead body out of Airbnb

Polk County Sherriff's Office homicide detectives are asking the public to help identify three men after Xavier Johnson was gunned down in a property in St Petersburg, Florida

Daily Mirror

Police warn a serial killer may be gunning down pedestrians in St Petersburg, Florida

‘We’re assuming that the suspect is driving down the street, spotting these people that are walking down the street, having a conversation and then shooting them,’ says St Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway

The Independent UK

Climate change to rule Rays out of St. Pete waterfront stadium?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Since the Tampa Bay Rays began their search for a site to build a new stadium more than a decade ago, sea level rise has changed where they can look, team president Brian Auld said Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Strictly's Katya Jones denies rumours of tension between Russian and Ukrainian dancers

Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones and Luba Mushtuk come from St Petersburg while Nikita Kuzmin and Nadiya Bychkova come from Ukraine

Irish Mirror

Russian family prefers exile to 'unbearable' pro-war mood at home

A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin: risk-taker who is gambling his country's future

In the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin was known to a member of the city’s legislature, Viktor Talanov. A psychologist by profession, Talanov prepared a study of Putin in which he concluded that one of his subject’s fundamental psychological characteristics was a very…

The Conversation

Charity that supported St Petersburg ballet and opera closes its doors

Prince Charles was a patron of trust set up by friend of Putin to back the Russian Mariinsky theatre

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Britain targets Putin's allies with superyachts, jets and assets in clampdown

Today’s crackdown includes asset freezes, travel bans and measures to seize private jets and superyachts. Activists had called for the restrictions in the run-up to and after the Ukraine invasion

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s war has closed every McDonald’s in Russia. I remember the excitement when they first opened

Thirty years ago I queued beside my St Petersburg friends on their first visit to the Golden Arches. After communism and the cold war, the ‘Beeg Mak’ was a taste of the world they had dreamed of, writes Viv Groskop

Evening Standard

Huge queues at Victoria’s Secret as chain closes Russian stores amid war in Ukraine

Huge queues hit Victoria’s Secret stores in Moscow and St Petersburg after the outlet announced it was suspending business in Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Top Russian ballerina speaks out saying she's ashamed of Putin's invasion of Ukraine

Olga Smirnova published an emotional post on social networking platform Telegram saying she is opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine where she has family and friends

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Leonardo DiCaprio nearly died in two freak plane accidents on way to meet Putin in Russia

Vladimir Putin praised Leonardo DiCaprio for being a 'real man' after the plane engine exploded on his first attempt to get to Russia, then his rescheduled flight had to make an early emergency landing

Wales Online

Dozens of firms have cut ties with Russia in the past week

The companies have cut ties with Russia in an act of solidarity against Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine

Manchester Evening News

Co-op, Morrisons, H&M, M&S and more cut ties with Russia amid Ukraine invasion

Shell, BP and British Gas have all taken steps to condemn and sever ties with Russia's economy

Daily Mirror

Russians start to flee homeland amid fears Putin will shut borders in angry move

Thousands of Russians are boarding a service from St Petersburg to Finland every day to escape economic sanctions, as well as the fear of conscription into Putin's armies

The Independent UK

Cruise lines halt all Russia stops in response to Ukraine invasion

Norwegian, Viking, MSC and Royal Caribbean have all suspended calls at Russian ports

Daily Mirror

Pensioner who survived WW2 arrested in Russia for protesting against Ukraine war

Hundreds of Russians across the country have taken to the streets to protest against the illegal invasion of Ukraine, including in Moscow and St Petersburg

The Independent UK

Formula 1 terminates contract with Russian Grand Prix

The Russian GP had been due to move to St Petersburg in 2023

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