Ukraine
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Vladimir Putin was so close to launching a nuclear weapon in Ukraine in October 2022 that the government held emergency meetings over how the fallout could affect the UK, according to an updated biography of ex-prime minister Liz Truss. Truss reportedly spent some of her last days in office studying weather maps and preparing for…
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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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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has accused European leaders of seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine after Donald Trump’s re-election. In a post to Telegram, Medvedev claimed their goal was to “drive the conflict with Russia into an irreversible phase”. He also warned Western politicians against sending long-range missiles to Ukraine to fire at…
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President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke on Wednesday with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and during the call handed the phone to Elon Musk, the increasingly influential billionaire who has played a key role in providing communications capability to Ukraine in its war with Russia, a person familiar with the discussion said. It is not clear whether…
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Viktor Orbán’s proposal for a quick ceasefire in Ukraine led to a rebuke by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called it “nonsense and disharmony”. Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought their long-simmering showdown to Budapest on Thursday with separate press conferences that laid bare their diametrically opposed visions on how to end the war in Ukraine. The…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia’s defense ministry was working on different ways to respond if the United States and its NATO allies help Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with long-range Western missiles. ” (The Russian defense ministry) is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes on Russian…
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North Korea says it will support Russia in its war with Ukraine “until the day of victory” – after the US warned thousands of Pyongyang’s troops are set to enter combat in the coming days. North Korea’s foreign minister Choe Son Hui hailed Vladimir Putin’s “wise leadership” ahead of talks in Moscow on Friday, and insisted that…
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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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Western leaders say North Korea has sent around 10,000 soldiers to help Russia’s military campaign. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the deployment of thousands of North Korean soldiers to Russia is pushing the war beyond its borders. “There is only one conclusion — this war is internationalised,” the Ukrainian leader said on Telegram on…
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The United States is expressing disappointment over a decision by the Swiss government not to adopt all measures in the latest round of European Union sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine. Amb. Scott Miller, the top U.S. envoy in the Swiss capital, expressed hope that Bern will work to close a “loophole” that allows overseas…
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Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 of their soldiers each in the first major prisoner of war return in more than a month, according to statements from authorities in the two nations. The exchange was mediated by the United Arab Emirates, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday. More than half of the Ukrainian…
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Russia on Friday returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Most of the soldiers were killed in action in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, mostly around the city of Avdiivka that Russian forces captured in February…
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Russia on Wednesday denounced a “victory plan” presented by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, saying he was trying to push NATO into a direct conflict with Moscow. In his speech, Zelenskiy called on his allies to take urgent steps to bolster Kyiv at a precarious moment in a bid to end the conflict with Russia next…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed defense issues in a phone call, Zelensky’s press service reported Wednesday. During the conversation, Zelensky expressed gratitude to the United States for the new defense package worth 425 million U.S. dollars, which includes additional air defense systems and long-range weapons. He urged the United States…
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Ukraine has hit three arms depots in Russia within four days, reportedly destroying tens of thousands of tonnes of munitions. Over the past week, Ukraine has hit three Russian munitions depots within four days, all with domestically produced weapons. The attacks are widely seen as Kyiv demonstrating its ability to strike targets deep inside Russia…
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Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine’s allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use long-range missiles against…
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