Furious Putin lashes out at ‘scum and traitors’ as Ukraine invasion stalls and another Russian general is killed despite ceasefire talks

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian state television late last night to excoriate Russians who do not back him, even as both sides expressed optimism over efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting. Russians “will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like [...]