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1 RUSSIA/UKRAINE

Kyiv braces for attacks after Moscow car bomb killing

Ukraine was braced for an intensification of Russian missile attacks to coincide with its independence day this week, in the aftermath of the car bomb killing of the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue.

Ukraine’s military warned that Russia had put five cruise missile-bearing warships and submarines out in the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence systems in Belarus. Large gatherings were banned in Kyiv for several days this week.

Tensions between the two warring countries were at risk of heightening further after the killing of Darya Dugina, daughter of the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, on the outskirts of Moscow last Saturday. On Monday, Russia’s Federal Security Service accused Ukraine’s intelligence services of carrying out the murder. Kyiv denied any involvement

If the accusation against Ukraine was true, it would mark a significant embarrassment for Russia’s security and counterintelligence apparatus, which failed to prevent the attack in an elite Moscow postcode and then let the suspects slip away.

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2 CANADA

Indigenous woman is nominated to supreme court

Justin Trudeau has nominated an Indigenous woman to Canada’s supreme court, in a landmark appointment after decades of criticism over a lack of Indigenous representation on the country’s highest court.

The prime minister announced last Friday that