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‘It is a crisis’: Putin under increasing pressure from Ukraine war

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country. Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, a…

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  1. Deutsche Welle

    Russia's fuel crisis: Is Putin under pressure? (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Ukraine's extended campaign against Russian energy infrastructure is disrupting fuel supplies and military logistics. With shortages mounting in occupied Crimea, is the pressure pushing Putin toward negotiations?

  2. Jonesboro Sun

    Putin shrugs off fuel shortages in Russia as he ramps up attacks on Ukraine (opens Jonesboro Sun)

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    President Vladimir Putin appears unbothered by Ukraine’s increasing attacks on his country’s oil refineries. He has shrugged off severe fuel shortages in one of the world’s leading oil producing nations as “not critical,” dismissed ceasefire proposals and insisted the war…

  3. The Hill

    ‘It is a crisis’: Putin under increasing pressure from Ukraine war (opens The Hill)

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming under rare public criticism at home, a significant signal of how the pressures from the more than four-year war in Ukraine are hurting the country. Fuel shortages and rising inflation, high-profile attacks against Russian energy infrastructure and cities, a…

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