Pravda, citing Russian media organization RBC, noted that a standard employee reshuffle procedure accounted for why the top officials had been fired.
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Yes, but what did he fire them from?
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Having been through countless corporate re- orgs… 
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Well this is an interesting development if true, though it’s hard to separate credible reports from misinformation on this kind of thing.
Hard to say if Putin dying of cancer would make him more dangerous or less dangerous in the short run.
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For the first time in my life: “Yay cancer.”
That was very difficult. Seriously. But, Putin, WTF. Next.
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The nausea from chemo therapy would definitely go a long way toward explaining this:
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First useful thing a Tory’s done in a while.
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It shows sound judgment on the part of management and the board.
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Russia is not winning the economic war by any halfway reasonable or fact-based definition.
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I wonder why The Guardian is publishing this kind of articles. Appeasing Putin before worked out really badly.
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Turns out that scene from the first John Wick movie about an russian mob vault being inside an orthodox church might have been too on the nose
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If I were in a generous mood, I would think that pushing articles about Russia winning anything are warnings, not cheerleading. Trying to see and alert readers that sanctions are not going to be a quick win, especially against rulers who don’t give a shit about people.
But I think it’s just the habit of contrarianism, more than being tankies. A bias towards expecting anything BoJo touches to go pear-shaped or not be effective at all. After all, being pessimistic is a safe bet.
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Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara, Vasyl Bodna, accused Russia of “stealing” and sending Ukrainian grain abroad to countries including Turkey.
“Russia shamelessly steals Ukrainian grain and sends it overseas from Crimea, including to Turkey,” Bodna said in a tweet on Friday.
“We have asked for Turkey’s help to resolve the issue,” he added in a message on Twitter.
Prior to Russia’s invasion earlier this year, Ukraine was a major exporter of wheat and sunflower oil.
Turkey, a NATO member, has provided combat drones to Ukraine while attempting to serve as a mediator in the conflict which reached its 100th day on Friday. Nevertheless, Turkey has refrained from imposing sanctions on Russia as it relies on it for grain and energy.
At the request of the United Nations, Turkey has offered to assist in securing maritime corridors for Ukrainian grain export.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be in Turkey on Wednesday to discuss the issue.
Vasyl Bodnar, Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey, speaks during a rally, in Ankara, Turkey in May, 2022. Photograph: Burhan Özbilici/AP
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Putin seeks to make food shortages in Africa the fault of Western sanctions not being lifted as a condition of him allowing grain to be exported from Ukraine via Belarus (not that - even if he did allow it - I’d trust the arsehole in Belarus to do the right thing and not seek to steal or somehow profit from it).
AU head said he is “reassured” after talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin on food shortages.
Macky Sall, the African Union head and Senegalese president , said he was “reassured” after meeting with Putin regarding global food shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Putin hosted Sall at his Black Sea residence in Sochi on Friday, which also marked the 100th day of Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. In addition to global food shortages, other issues discussed between the two leaders included grain supplies that are stuck in Ukrainian ports.
“I found Vladimir Putin committed and aware that the crisis and sanctions create serious problems for weak economies, such as African economies,” Sall said to reporters, adding that he was “very reassured and very happy with our exchanges”.
In a televised interview in the evening, Putin accused the west of “bluster” by claiming Moscow was preventing grain exports from Ukraine.
“There is no problem to export grain from Ukraine,” he said, suggesting several possible routes.
Putin said that exports could transit through the Russian-controlled ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk, or the Ukrainian-held port of Odessa as long as Ukraine “cleared” the waters around it of mines. He added that other options include the Danube River via Romania, Hungary or Poland.
“But the simplest, the easiest, the cheapest would be exports via Belarus, from there one can go to Baltic ports, then to the Baltic Sea and then anywhere in the world.”
But Putin said any export via Belarus would be conditional on the “lifting of sanctions” by the west against Minsk, allied to Moscow.
Macky Sall, the presdident of Senegal, said he was ‘reassured’ after meeting with Putin regarding global food shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/KREMLIN POOL/SPUTNIK/EPA
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In just over three months, nearly 14 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes, the majority women and children – a scale and speed of displacement not witnessed in history.
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An update on the war and current conflict areas.
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