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Australian elite seek to divert Russia’s $9b ‘dirty money’ to Ukraine
The group, including former prime ministers, business, union and military leaders, wants Australia to divert the billions it has confiscated since the invasion of Ukraine.
- by Rob Harris
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Released from prison to fight Ukraine, they return to Russia to kill again
Russian convicts have been the backbone of its success in Ukraine but the strategy is backfiring at home. Those pardoned include murderers, rapists and even a cannibal.
- by Neil MacFarquhar and Milana Mazaeva
Perspective
World War I
In war, the horror is the only thing you can believe
Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past, and remains alien to current wars.
- by Tony Wright
Zelensky lowers Ukraine’s fighting age, cracks down on draft dodgers
Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army.
- by Andrew E. Kramer
Does the peace sign still stand a chance?
A universal peace sign seems wildly optimistic now when almost everything from the colour of your hat to the emoji in your post is an ideological declaration.
- by Michael Rock
Inside the killing of a Russian defector with all the hallmarks of a Kremlin hit job
The men who killed Maksim Kuzminov wanted to send a message. It didn’t help his cause that he was partying in Spain and messaging an ex-girlfriend back home.
- by Michael Schwirtz and José Bautista
Eclectic, arty and the food is fantastic - this city isn’t what I’d imagined
One moment you might be in a bar sipping cocktails, the next in a bunker during an air raid alert but locals say Kyiv’s sophisticated spirit has returned.
- by Rob Harris
Europe has entered ‘pre-war era’, says Poland’s prime minister
“I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era,” said the Polish leader.
- by Rob Harris
Australian-Algerian wanted over alleged murder of British ex-soldier
Daniel Burke, from Manchester, travelled to Ukraine in 2022 to help fight against Russian invading forces. He was found dead in September.
- by Martin Evans
From TV comic to wartime leader: The making of Volodomyr Zelensky
Simon Shuster’s biography of the Ukrainian president is informed by the time he spent covering his story long before the Russian invasion.
- by Sonia Mycak
Opinion
Opinion
Australians have blindly accepted Albanese’s line on this for far too long
Bureaucrats who decide budgets may think we do not have skin in the game. We do. Just like Britain did when Nazi Germany coveted Czechoslovakia.
- by Rob Harris