Russia
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The US is not considering the idea of returning to Ukraine the nuclear weapons it gave up after the Soviet Union collapsed, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has told ABC. The New York Times had reported unidentified Western officials suggested Joe Biden could give Ukraine the arms before he leaves office. “That is…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a joint news conference with the new EU president Antonio Costa in Kyiv. He told reporters there is “still time” for the US to convince “sceptics” in Europe that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO. He said that any invitation to join must apply to all of Ukraine’s territory –…
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President Vladimir Putin has approved a 25% increase in Russia’s military budget for 2025 to 2027, a document published today confirms. Despite the considerable rise in defence spending, it appears to be the most secretive in post-Soviet history – with a third of it censored from public view. It amounts to around 32.5% of the…
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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has posted about this week’s aerial attacks on Ukraine. In his post on X, he says Russia has launched 500 aerial bombs, nearly 660 drones, and 120 missiles over the past seven days. “No other country in the world has ever faced such attacks on a daily basis for such a…
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The new European Council president and foreign policy chief are visiting Ukraine on their first day in their jobs. President Antonio Costa, the former prime minister of Portugal, and Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s new high representative for foreign affairs and Estonia’s former leader, are in Kyiv today after being sworn in on Friday. Both leaders…
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An 11-year-old boy died after a drone attack on an apartment block in Russia’s Bryansk region overnight, according to the local governor. Ukrainian drone attacks destroyed a house in Bryansk’s Starodubsky district and hit a five-storey tower block elsewhere in the region into Sunday, Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram. The tower block death was the…
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On a freezing cold, misty day, small groups of people gather, sometimes hugging, sometimes crying, sometimes just silent. In front of them, the wall of St Michael’s golden-domed monastery in the centre of Kyiv’s old town. The walls are now festooned with the faces of thousands of soldiers, all dead, all killed in this war…
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Britain’s armed forces would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts “tonight” if Vladimir Putin invades another Eastern European nation, a top U.K. military chief said Thursday. “If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight,” Rob Magowan, the deputy chief of the British defense staff, told the House of Commons…
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Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has held multiple calls with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, should be investigated by the Pentagon and law-enforcement agencies on national-security grounds, two senior Democrat senators said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. Musk, who has been appointed to a senior government role by Republican President-elect Donald Trump,…
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A US man who leaked highly classified military documents relating to the war in Ukraine has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jack Teixeira, of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, pleaded guilty earlier this year to six counts of wilful retention and transmission of national defence information under the Espionage Act following his arrest…
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It is clear what Russia stands to gain from an influx of some 10,000 North Korean troops to aid its war in Ukraine. Less apparent is what might be in it for Kim Jong Un. “North Korea might be getting combat experience with drones and some real combat experience in a 21st century war,” Alexander…
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken is heading to Europe for urgent meetings on Ukraine with NATO and European Union officials ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The state department will hold talks in Brussels on Wednesday on how to boost support for Ukraine, as Trump has suggested US military assistance to…
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Russia’s ties with North Korea, Iran and China “threaten peace” around the world, NATO chief Mark Rutte has said. In a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, the secretary-general said Russia was continuing its “onslaught against Ukraine”, all the while “drawing ever closer to its allies – China, Iran and North Korea”. “After delivering…
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Donald Trump has expressed “interest” in two points of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s so-called “victory plan”, according to a report. The plan outlines five key points – two of which were laid out with Trump specifically in mind, people involved in drawing it up have told the Financial Times. One idea would see some US troops stationed across…
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Donald Trump’s election victory has fuelled fear among some Ukrainians that US support could be put under threat. But one politician says he believes the president-elect will pursue “victory for Ukraine” and that Vladimir Putin is “not his friend”, despite reports the pair have recently spoken. Oleksiy Goncharenko, Ukrainian MP for Podilsk in Odesa, told…
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Moldova has summoned the Russian ambassador over two Russian drones which fell in Moldovan territory at the weekend. Chisnau said the two “decoy” drones used to try and confuse Ukrainian air defences violated its airspace and crashed deep inside its territory on Sunday. They were found in the northern village of Borosenii Noi and the southern…
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