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Russian state pollster VCIOM published an exit poll showing a vast majority of Russians backing proposed reforms which will allow Putin to run for president again in 2024 and potentially stay in power until 2036, days before the end of voting.
The Wagner mercenary group was entirely financed by the Russian state, which spent 86 billion roubles ($1 billion) on it between May 2022 and May 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. In addition, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the group's brief mutiny last Saturday, made almost as much during the same period from his food and catering business, Putin said at a meeting with security forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend. In his first address to the nation since the rebels pulled back, Putin said he had issued orders to avoid bloodshed and granted amnesty to the Wagner fighters whose mutiny served up the greatest challenge yet to his two-decade rule.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that "from the start of the events, on my direct orders, steps were taken to avoid large-scale bloodshed". Speaking during a televised address, Putin blames Kyiv and the western countries for wanting "precisely this fratricide" and Russian soldiers "killing each other".
Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine "has chosen a different path, the path of trying to frighten Russia" after Moscow and the surrounding region were hit by eight drones in an unprecedented attack blamed on Kyiv. All were destroyed, according to Russia's defence ministry.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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