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'They killed most people we know' - our fate if Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine
The Daily Mirror's Defence & Security Editor Chris Hughes has covered the Ukraine war from the front lines. Two years on from Russia's invasion he warns of the global implications
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'Tanks rolled through my city - we couldn't believe what was happening'
Two Ukrainian women, Bohdana Lisova, 19, and Svitlana Tselishcheva, 38, have shared the touching stories of how they fled from their homes amid Russia's invasion, two years ago today
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Anti-LGBTQ family who fled to Russia regret choice as locals don't speak English
A conservative, hyper-Christian Canadian family who fled Canada for Russia over Canada's pro-LGBTQ ideologies now regrets their decision because the locals don't speak English
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Alexei Navalny's mum given secret access to see son's body
Lyudmila Navalnaya said authorities have allowed her to see the body of her son, Alexei Navalny, at the morgue in the Arctic city of Salekhard - and she is accusing officials of "blackmailing" her into approving a secret burial
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Moment woman who spent 3 days trapped behind basement wall is rescued
An unnamed Russian woman told her rescuers she had called for help for three days before someone finally heard her and she was rescued from a gap in the wall
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Assassinated Putin defector was living secret double-life as Ukrainian in Spain
The suspected Russian defector was gunned down in a car park in Southern Spain near Benidorm, a popular city with British and Russian tourists alike. Hitmen sent by the Kremlin are believed to have been behind the brutal slaying
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Klitschko warns Putin could go on rampage across whole of Europe after Ukraine
Kyiv mayor and ex-boxing champ Vitali Klitschko has warned that war tyrant Vladimir Putin could rampage across the whole of Europe should his forces defeat Ukraine
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Grim murder methods for Putin enemies - 'laced tea, poison and punch to heart'
From disguising poison in tea to killing with one swift punch to the heart, many who oppose Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin have met a grisly and bloody end
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Grisly fates of Putin's critics - 'heart punch', poisoned tea and plane crashes
Since Vladimir Putin has been at the top of the Kremlin, at least 11 of his enemies have died in mysterious circumstances - including political critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists
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Alexei Navalny was killed by a 'KGB trademark' single punch to the heart
An old KGB tactic was used by authorities to kill Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to a human rights campaigner who said he had spoken to sources inside the penal colony
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Alexei Navalny 'killed by single punch to heart used as signature move by KGB'
Alexei Navalny's cause of death has not yet been released, but sources have said he may have died of a signature technique used by the KGB - a single punch to the heart
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Putin's death squads will launch 'killing spree' against enemies in Britain
The Mirror tracked down activist Bill Browder who is top of Vladimir Putin's UK kill list for an exclusive interview where he issued a chilling warning of a Kremlin hit-list with at least a dozen names on
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Russian politician's mum pleads for son's body so she can bury him
Grieving Lyudmila Navalnaya braved minus-11°c temperatures to stand outside the jail where her son Alexei Navalny was being held in a desperate bid to get Vladimir Putin to act
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Bullet-riddled body 'may be Russian who defected with army helicopter'
Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian pilot, crossed the frontline and fled into Ukraine in an Mi-8 helicopter but was found with half a dozen gunshot wounds in Spain last week
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Vladimir Putin’s FSB arrest American woman for high treason 'over £40'
Ksenia Karelina, 33, was held in Yekaterinburg on suspicion of raising funds for the Ukrainian army. Astonishingly, one report said the amount in question was £41.10
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Alexei Navalny's wife accuses Vladimir Putin of 'poisoning him with Novichok'
Widowed Yulia Navalnaya said Vladimir Putin killed her husband Alexei Navalny because he was 'unbreakable' - and has urged Russians to 'rage' against the regime
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Mystery of Alexei Navalny's missing body as mum 'not allowed into morgue'
The exact location of Alexei Navalny's body remains unclear following his death in a Siberian prison with his mother not able to see him following reports that it he died covered in bruising
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Navalny’s body ‘found covered in bruises’ fuelling fears Putin had him killed
Just one day after Alexei Navalny, once Vladimir Putin's largest political opponent, was seen healthy and in good spirits, making his jailer laugh, he was announced to have died before Russian authorities refused to hand over the body
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Alexei Navalny's body goes missing fuelling claims he was murdered by Putin
Just one day after being seen in good health, laughing and smiling, Alexei Navalny was announced to have died with western leaders immediately pointing the finger at Vladimir Putin
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Inside ‘ghost town’ nuclear bunker for prime ministers - as owner issues warning
Mike Parrish, 76, bought the former Government "secret nuclear bunker" - located under a field in Kelvedon Hatch, near Brentwood, Essex - in 1994 and runs it as a museum.
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New evidence from Arctic jail that Russia lied over Alexei Navalny time of death
Alexei Navalny was the leader of opposition in Russia against despot Vladimir Putin and was imprisoned by the Kremlin before he was announced to have died yesterday
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At least 11 of Putin’s biggest critics mysteriously died before Alexei Navalny
Over his more than two decades at the top of the Kremlin, several of warmonger Putin's opponents from political critics to turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been killed or assaulted in a variety of ways
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Alexei Navalny announcement 'published minutes after official time of death'
Alexei Navalny, who was Vladimir Putin's top critic and opposition politician, has died in a Russian prison following claims he experienced serious health problems
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Vladimir Putin's top critic and opposition politician dies in Russian prison
Alexei Navalny, who was discovered in one of Putin's toughest jails in December last year after going missing for 20 days, has died in that jail, the prison says
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UK 'isn't prepared' for war as Putin 'looks to launch nuclear weapon into space'
Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged space nuclear weapon plot could 'stymie' a more conventional war in Europe, according to a security and intelligence expert
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