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		<title>How Crimea turned into Putin&#8217;s humiliation</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (29th June, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blair has no right to pontificate on Putin</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (27th February, 2023) Last week, Sir Tony Blair published an article in The Daily Telegraph headlined “One thing is clear: Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (3rd November, 2022) For Ukrainians, the situation is clear. Vladimir Putin’s torture of their country through invasion started eight years ago when ‘little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Now Putin is weaponising winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (31st October, 2022) Last night, the sirens began wailing as I walked into a shopping centre. A Russian bomber had been detected flying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Putin using three body doubles who&#8217;ve had surgery to look like him, says Ukraine military chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th October, 2022) Vladimir Putin is using at least three body doubles who have had plastic surgery to look like him, claims [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s plan for Ukraine lies in ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 14:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (10th October, 2022) Ukraine was a place of joyful celebration when people woke on Saturday to learn that an explosion had ripped through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 13:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th December, 2022) It is a picture that shows the stunning devastation caused to the only rail and road link between Russia [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians &#8211; or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 13:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2022) On the right bank of Kyiv, close to the city centre, lies a peaceful park bisected by a busy road. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (22nd February, 2022) When Georgia was on the verge of joining Nato in 2008, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin stirred up bitter separatist tensions, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deportation, genocide and a brutal lesson from history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 12:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (14th February, 2022) As the military forces of a modern Russian dictator menacingly encircle Ukraine, they stir chilling memories from the past of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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