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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill formally suspending the 2010 New START treaty on Tuesday.
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Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg (Credits: Getty)
Russia has closed its airspace after an ‘unknown’ object was spotted floating over St Petersburg.
All flights at Pulkovo Airport, located 14 miles south of the city centre, have been temporarily suspended today.
Reports on social media have identified the object as a drone, but this is yet to be confirmed.
Authorities said on their official Telegram channel that all flights flights have been halted until midday local time.
It did not provide a reason for the suspension.
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They were parachuted to the frontline as Wagner Group fighters after six weeks of ‘very tough training’ with assault rifles, machine guns and mines.
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‘Attention, attention, missile strike threat.’
Russia said Tuesday it will observe curbs imposed by the New START treaty, hours after President Vladimir Putin announced Moscow was suspending participation in the arms pact with the United States.
Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday the three astronauts who were left stranded by a pressure leak in their return capsule last year will be able to return on the Soyuz MS-23 replacement capsule in September.
‘The West declares that perversions including paedophilia.’
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Still reeling from the Kremlin’s decision to send troops to Ukraine, Masha Yanchevskaya is one of many young Russians torn between trying to “heal” society or seclude themselves from it. In the first days of the conflict, the 21-year-old budding film director remembers riding the Moscow metro and looking at passengers to interpret their emotions. “I looked into the eyes of a young guy and we both cried without saying a thing,” she remembers.
Western analysts have said a build-up of aircraft on the Ukrainian border could see Putin’s forces attempt to push the offensive in the Donbas region.
Embassy spy David Smith developed strong pro-Putin and anti-UK views after his wife moved to Ukraine.
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He has boasted ‘nothing is collapsing in Russia’ as a result.
