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Paul Sonne

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@nytimes correspondent focusing on Russia & Ukraine. Formerly @WashingtonPost @WSJ in Washington, Moscow, London. RT ≠ endorsement. [email protected]

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Putin threatens small European countries calling for the use of their long-range weapons to strike deep into Russia. "They should remember that, as a rule, a country with little territory has a very dense population," he said, suggesting many people would die if Russia responds.

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Putin, taking questions from his press pool before leaving Vietnam, compared sanctions against North Korea to the Leningrad blockade.

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"Beyond using nuclear weapons or causing more destruction on the battlefield in Ukraine, the Russian leader is seeking to prove he can pressure and antagonize the West in other ways and other places." By @paulsonne nytimes.com/2024/06/21/wor…

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🎁🔗 Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, the former commander of Russia's 234th paratrooper unit, has been arrested for fraud, Paul Sonne reports. Our 2022 investigation found that the unit under his command killed dozens of unarmed civilians in Bucha, Ukraine. nytimes.com/2024/07/04/wor…

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The Kremlin's broadside against YouTube is in full swing, with throttling crippling the site for millions of Russians, but blocking the "too big to ban" platform in Russia is harder than it seems. nytimes.com/2025/01/31/wor…

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NEW: How Russia, looking to keep its bases, is trying to make nice with the new authorities in Syria, after a decade of bombing them. Syria‘s new leader is surprisingly amenable. With Christina Goldbaum: nytimes.com/2025/02/02/wor…

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Happy to speak with Paul Sonne The New York Times about #Russia's "improvised opportunism" in #Syria. After a remarkable pivot, Russia is trying to retain some presence & influence in a post-Assad Syria - as evidenced by the recent visit of a Russian delegation: nytimes.com/2025/02/02/wor…

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From Moscow to Budapest, Tehran to San Salvador, officials with authoritarian tendencies are cheering the dismantling of USAID. nytimes.com/2025/02/05/wor…

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The authorities showed up at his apartment in Moscow to arrest him. His crime: donating $30 to Navalny’s anticorruption group three years prior. nytimes.com/2025/02/15/wor…

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For decades Putin has wanted more power for Russia and less power for America in Europe. Will Trump give it to him? nytimes.com/2025/02/16/wor…

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Some Europeans in the audience at the Munich security conference read JD Vance’s remarks as the U.S. siding with Russia and the European far right in what could become a assault from all sides on the European Union. nytimes.com/2025/02/16/wor…

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“I’m very, very angry.” Reporting from Bucha, Kim Barker finds anguish over an apparent betrayal by the United States. nytimes.com/2025/02/20/wor…

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For eight months, Putin has been pushing the line that Zelensky is illegitimate. Then, on Wednesday, it came from the White House. nytimes.com/2025/02/20/wor…

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To split from the US and deter Russia, Europe needs minimum "1,400 tanks, 2,000 infantry fighting vehicles and 700 artillery pieces. This is more combat power than currently exists in the French, German, Italian and British land forces combined.” nytimes.com/2025/02/24/wor…

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Three years into the war, Trump has ushered in a new world for Putin. “In a sense,” Mr. Putin said, “the moment of truth is coming.” nytimes.com/2025/02/24/wor…

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Top Kremlin foreign policy adviser, who spoke recently to Waltz, says Kremlin does not want a 30-day ceasefire. Question now is what, if anything, the Trump administration will offer to try to change Putin's mind - and if he will go for it. nytimes.com/live/2025/03/1…

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Putin says he supports idea of a ceasefire but that many issues need to be sorted out - including whether Ukraine can get arms and personnel replenishment during the ceasefire, what happens to Ukrainian personnel allegedly surrounded in Kursk and who monitors violations on front

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SCOOP: Canada is in advanced talks to participate in the new EU military industry project, highlighting how traditional US allies are teaming up to Trump-proof their military production. The budding deal would see Canada get EU contracts to build in Canadian factories.

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Imagine learning about Elon Musk's decision to shut down your U.S.-funded media outlet from prison in Belarus, where you have spent three years for your journalism work. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/wor…

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The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down. New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. nytimes.com/2025/05/21/wor…