March 2024
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Discussions about a possible prisoner exchange involving the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich should be completed “in silence”, the Kremlin has said. The journalist, a US citizen, was arrested in Russia in late March 2023 on suspicion of espionage. The 32-year-old was on a reporting trip at the time. Both Gershkovich and his employer…
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Dmytro Kuleba arrived in New Delhi earlier this week for diplomatic talks. Kyiv is attempting to shift India’s neutrality on Russia’s war towards a peace “formula” – which involves Moscow withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s territory. Ukraine hopes to hold a summit of world leaders without Russian participation in the coming months to advance its blueprint.…
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The Kremlin “likely aims to seize” on the fears and anger of Russian citizens after the Moscow hall shooting to further cast Ukraine as “terrorists” and the West the “sponsor” of terrorism. That’s the analysis of the US-based Institute for the Study of War, in its latest analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war. “Russian officials are…
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Russia’s defence ministry has announced plans to hold joint combat training projects with Myanmar, state media has reported. The plan includes more than 50 “joint activities” in 2024, including joint combat training projects, according to the RIA news agency, citing the Russian defence ministry. Myanmar has been in quasi-civil war since the army seized power…
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Ukrainian forces have shot down 26 out of 28 Iranian-made Russian attack drones overnight, according to officials in Kyiv. The drones were destroyed over parts of eastern, southern and southeastern Ukraine, the air force added. The Zaporizhzhia region governor said on Telegram that two women had been wounded when debris struck a residential neighbourhood in…
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The number of people dead from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 143, according to Russian authorities. The updated figure from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry did not state the number of wounded. However, health minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday that 80 people were in hospital and another 205 had sought medical treatment…
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Youth players at the Sporting Kyiv football academy in the Ukrainian team said they were inspired by the men’s national football team for qualifying for the European Championship. “[It] shows that war does not stop us from pursuing sports,” said 12-year-old Hlib Kochetov. Artem Mykhailenko, 15, said that seeing Ukraine compete at Euro 2024 will…
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Western F-16 fighter jets are on schedule to hit the skies over Ukraine by the middle of summer, according to its foreign affairs minister. Dmytro Kuleba said pilot training was “going well” and “everything was going to plan”, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “But, of course, this is a very complicated and confusing issue, so you never know…
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Russia may have used a new type of guided bomb in deadly airstrikes on the city of Kharkiv, local officials said. The attack in northeastern Ukraine killed one person and injured 19 others, among them three children and a baby, officials said. Volodymyr Tymoshko, head of Kharkiv regional police, said Moscow may have used a…
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Russia is creating a new formation of small warships and a boat brigade to secure the Dnipro waterways and islands, according to the UK’s defence ministry. Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, announced the creation of the Dnipro River Flotilla last week. In its latest intelligence update, the MoD said Russia likely wants to prevent Ukrainian…
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Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have appeared on a building in Vienna. The pictures have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister, behind a monument to Soviet soldiers. The monument portraying a Soviet soldier was built after Soviet troops took Vienna…
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A British man who flew to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine has insisted he is “not a terrorist”. Ben Stimson filmed himself dressed in Russian combat gear and flaunted a grenade apparently looted from Ukrainian forces. He has posted footage appearing to show foreign fighters walking past dead bodies in the…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been visiting members of the armed forces in Sumy this week The Ukrainian president arrived in the northeastern region and inspected fortifications that are being built. Sharing a video of his visit on Telegram, he said: “Construction of fortifications is under way in Sumy Oblast. “Inspected trenches, dugouts, fire and command and observation…
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Two men arrested for ‘helping Russia plan missile strikes’ Two Ukrainian men have been detained by the country’s security service for allegedly helping Russia plan missile strikes. The SBU said the men were arrested in Kyiv and Odesa, and they now face life imprisonment if found guilty. “They were preparing missile strikes on military units…
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A political activist and member of the rock band Pussy Riot has been sentenced by a Russian court for spreading “war fakes” on social media. Lyusya Shtein has been handed a six-year prison sentence in absentia for the anti-war posts. The 27-year-old was convicted in Moscow over a post on X in which she accused…
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A British general has warned the UK’s military could only fight Russia for a matter of months because “we don’t have the ammunition and reserves of equipment to do it”. The admission was made during a committee meeting, at which General Rob Magowan was asked whether he accepted the UK was not ready for an…
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