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  • Russian army capture Ukraine’s Selydove – intense fighting continues in Donetsk

    Reports say Russian forces have captured and occupied three settlements in eastern Ukraine amid Moscow’s push to gain control of the whole Donetsk region. Russian forces have captured and occupied three more settlements in the Donetsk region, including Selydove, which has been under intense Russian pressure over the last few weeks, Ukraine’s open-source intelligence interactive…

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  • Vladimir Putin has travelled to Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to meet his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in his first visit since the invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. The Russian president arrived in the country yesterday for a two-day visit, during which talks will be focused on “international and regional problems”, the Kremlin said. …

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  • Zelensky: Ukrainian forces now control area where Russia pushed into Kharkiv region

    President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops staged an incursion this month in northern parts of Kharkiv region. “Our soldiers have now managed to take combat control of the border area where the Russian occupiers entered,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. Zelenskiy’s…

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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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  • Putin delivers nuclear weapons update

    Vladimir Putin said that 95% of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces have been modernised as he addressed Russia on the country’s annual Defender of the Fatherland Day yesterday. He said that Russia had started serial production of its new Zircon hypersonic missiles and that new strike systems, which he did not specify, were being tested. In…

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