The Russian Invasion

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Russian sources: Putin opens for ceasefire - with frozen front lines in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for a ceasefire based on freezing the current front lines. This is stated by four Russian sources who either work with, or have worked with, Putin.

Three of the sources say Putin recognizes that large-scale advances would require a new national mobilization, something he does not want. Two of the sources express that there is increased Russian concern about nuclear weapons escalation. 

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Russian prisoners are dwindling in the wake of the Kremlin's invasion

The number of inmates in Russian prisons fell by 58,000 people last year, Reuters reports citing unnamed independent Russian media.

It is part of a sharp downward trend that has been going on since 2009, but among the explanations for last year's decrease is how prisoners were recruited into both the paramilitary Wagner group and Russia's regular forces.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the Wagner group until he was killed in August 2023, has said that 50,000 prisoners joined the group.

Radio Free Europe has previously reported that several prisons have been closed as a result of the decline.

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A: Send the Jas Gripen to Ukraine before midsummer

The government should make a decision to send the Jas Gripen fighter jet to Ukraine. This is what Social Democrats' party leader Magdalena Andersson believes.

- We don't think you can wait any longer, she says according to TT.

She wants the decision to be made before midsummer at the latest and says that the security situation as a result of the Russian war in Ukraine means that a decision must come soon.