TASS

  • Zelenskyy holding emergency talks with EU leaders amid pressure from Washington, Moscow

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday as his nation seeks to weather continued attacks from Russia and growing political pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration in the U.S. The Ukrainian president’s latest visit to Brussels comes at a difficult moment for his nation, the White House having announced an open-ended pause on…

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  • Russian general Igor Kirillov has been buried with full military honours.  Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, was the most senior Russian officer to be killed inside Russia by Ukraine. He was killed outside his Moscow apartment building on Tuesday along with his assistant when a bomb attached to…

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  • Russia calls Pavel Durov a ‘political prisoner’ – Telegram founder arrested in France

    Telegram founder Pavel Durov is a “political prisoner” after his arrest in France, a Russian official has said. The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire behind the encrypted messaging app was detained after his private jet landed at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris on Saturday. It is unclear what Mr Durov was arrested for but BFMTV reported the warrant…

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