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NATO members Romania, Latvia report Russian drones breach airspace

Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, were investigating instances of Russian drones that crashed after breaching their airspace, authorities…

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Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk

Russia said its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow's forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the…

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NATO chief urges China to stop supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday called on China to stop supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and said Beijing's assistance has been a significant factor in the continuation of…

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Lavrov warns US not to mock Russia’s ‘red lines’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range U.S. missiles to Ukraine, warned the United States on Wednesday not to joke about Russia's…

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Kremlin says West’s agenda spurs changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine

Washington's escalation of the war in Ukraine and the actions of the "collective West" have made it necessary for Russia to revise its nuclear doctrine, Russian agencies cited Kremlin spokesman…

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Russia launches air attacks on Kyiv, western city of Lviv, Ukraine says

Russia launched missiles and drones on Kyiv and the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, not far from the border with NATO-member Poland, Ukraine's military said on Wednesday. This comes just…

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Finland plans to ban Russians from buying property

Finland's government is proposing to ban most Russian citizens from buying property in the Nordic country in a move to protect national security, Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said. Relations between…

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Putin says Russia advancing fast in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said as Moscow's forces tried…

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Kremlin, dismissing Zelenskiy’s talk of plan to end war, says Russia will keep fighting

The Kremlin dismissed talk by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about a plan he has to end the war and said Russia would continue what it calls its "special military operation"…

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Russia faces ‘difficult fight’ to retake Ukraine-held area, says top US spy

Russian President Vladimir Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to retake territory in the Kursk region captured by Ukrainian troops, but Russian forces will encounter "a difficult fight," Deputy…

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UPDATED: Zelenskiy says F16s shooting down Russian missiles

Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more F-16 fighter jets and more training for pilots to fly them as he revealed the western warplanes were used to shoot down Russian missiles during…

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Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three

Russia said the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the United States that World War Three would…

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EU mulls training soldiers inside Ukraine

The EU would consider training soldiers in Ukraine "should the necessary political and operational conditions be met," according to an EU External Action Service document seen by POLITICO. "A further…

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to present plan to Biden to end war with Russia

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong position and that he would present a…

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UPDATED: Ukraine’s top commander says Kursk advance continues, but Pokrovsk front difficult

Ukraine's top commander said on Tuesday that Kyiv's forces were still advancing in Russia's Kursk region, but warned that Moscow was building up its forces on the eastern Pokrovsk front,…

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Russia’s Wagner says it is not fighting in Ukraine

Russia's Wagner mercenary group said that it only operated in Africa and in Russian ally Belarus, and its soldiers were no longer fighting in the Ukraine war. Ukraine on Sunday…

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Russia pounds Ukraine with missiles, drones for second day in row

Russia launched several waves of missile and drone attacks overnight targeting Kyiv and other regions, Ukraine's military said early on Tuesday, a day after Moscow's biggest such attack of the…

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Object flies into Polish airspace during Russia’s attack on Ukraine

An object flew into Polish airspace during Russia's attack on Ukraine on Monday and probably landed on Polish territory, state news agency PAP reported, citing the army's operational command. PAP…

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Russia launches massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine

Russia launched more than 100 missiles and around 100 attack drones at Ukraine during the morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least five people and striking energy facilities nationwide,…

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Russian ambassador to U.S. says Putin has plan of action for Kursk incursion

Russian President Vladimir Putin has formulated a response to the ongoing Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region and those responsible for attacking Russia will be punished, Russian ambassador to the…

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Kursk incursion boosts Ukrainian morale after grim year

For Kyiv-area resident Olha Pavlovska, who huddles with her neighbours every week to discuss the often grim news from the front, Ukraine's shock incursion into Russia's Kursk region this month…

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Putin ally Chemezov says West risks global war over Ukraine

Sergei Chemezov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the United States and its Western allies risk triggering a global war if Washington continues to "provoke" the conflict…

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Ukraine launches ‘one of largest ever’ drone attacks on Moscow

Ukraine launched one of the largest ever drone attacks on Moscow on Wednesday, the city's mayor said, with Russian air defence units destroying at least 10 drones flying towards the…

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Putin inspects troops readying to fight Ukraine in surprise trip to Chechnya

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov inspected Chechen troops and volunteers readying to fight Ukraine, the Kremlin said, in what was Putin's first trip in 13 years…

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Over 122,000 Russians flee border areas amid Kursk invasion

Over 122,000 Russians have fled the border regions amid Ukraine’s Kursk invasion, according to Russian media. Residents have left their homes in huge numbers following Kyiv’s surprise counter-punch, TASS said,…

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Russia says Kursk attack means no peace talks with Ukraine for now

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Moscow was not ready to hold peace talks with Ukraine for now given Kyiv's attack on Russia's Kursk region, but that…

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Russia denies report about indirect talks with Ukraine

Russia denied a report that Ukraine's attack on the Kursk region had derailed indirect talks with Kyiv on halting strikes on energy and power targets, saying there had been no…

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North Korea’s Kim and Russia’s Putin vow deeper ties on Korean liberation day

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed a pledge to deepen cooperation with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked an anniversary of independence from Japan's…

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Belarus’ Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an…

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Ukraine ‘advancing in the Kursk region

Ukraine 'advancing in the Kursk region', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, adding while 'not forgetting our eastern front' Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said today that “we are not forgetting our…

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Ship-to-ship loadings of Russian diesel pick up in northern Aegean

Traders are moving Russian diesel cargoes to a new ship-to-ship (STS) loadings site in the northern Aegean Sea, as Western sanctions hit vessels carrying fuel loaded in Russian ports, LSEG…

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Ukraine keeps pounding Kursk in incursion Biden calls ‘real dilemma’ for Putin

Ukraine kept pounding the Russian border region of Kursk with missiles and drones on Wednesday, as Kyiv said it had made further territorial gains in an incursion that U.S. President…

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Russia strikes back at Ukrainian forces in Kursk region

Russian forces on Tuesday struck back at Ukrainian troops with missiles, drones and airstrikes in actions that one senior commander said had halted Ukraine's advance after the biggest attack on…

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Ukraine claims to control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory

Ukraine said its biggest cross-border assault of the war had captured 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles) of Russia's Kursk region and that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to…

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UPDATED: Ukraine says it hit Russian military airfield in Lipetsk region

The Ukrainian military said on Friday it had hit a Russian military airfield in the Lipetsk region of western Russia overnight, damaging stockpiles of guided bombs and causing a series…

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Russia battles Ukrainian troops for a third day after major incursion

Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's biggest…

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Thousands of YouTube outages reported in Russia

Russian internet monitoring services reported thousands of glitches in the availability of video hosting site YouTube on Thursday, amid escalating criticism of the platform by the Russian authorities. Russian internet…

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Ukraine pierces Russian border triggering major battles

Russia said on Wednesday that it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces which had penetrated Russia's Kursk region in one of the largest incursions into Russia since the Ukraine…

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Ukraine says it raided Russian-controlled spit in Black Sea

Ukraine's military intelligence agency confirmed on Wednesday that its forces had conducted a raid on the Russian-controlled Tendra Spit in the northwest of the Black Sea, saying they damaged equipment…

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Ukraine keeps up air attacks on Russia’s Kursk

Kyiv kept up air attacks on Russia's Kursk border region on Wednesday, with defence systems destroying at least five drones overnight, its acting governor said, a day after Moscow accused…

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Russia suspected Ukrainian attack on Navy Day parade, state TV says

Russia had suspicions that Ukraine planned to attack Russia during the Navy Day parade which was attended by President Vladimir Putin last month and Moscow contacted Washington about its concerns,…

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Russian forces thwart Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border

Russian forces have thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border in Russia's Kursk region, the interim governor of the region said on Tuesday. Alexei Smirnov said that soldiers and…

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Russia detains Italian man for flying a drone near the Kremlin

An Italian man has been detained in Moscow after flying a drone near the Kremlin, state news agency TASS reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement sources. TASS said Russian law…

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US had tried to secure Alexey Navalny’s release in historic prisoner swap with Russia

Vladimir Putin was open to releasing Alexey Navalny, the Russian leader's fiercest critic and political rival whose unexpected death in an Arctic penal colony sparked international backlash, as part of…

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Russia-Western prisoner swap: who was freed?

Following are details of some of the people from the United States, Russia and several other countries who were freed in a major prisoner exchange, as named by the United…

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Crimea building evacuated after being hit by ATACMS,

Authorities in the Russian-controlled city of Sevastopol in Crimea are evacuating a nine-storey residential building after it was hit by a fragment of an ATACMS missile, the Russian-appointed governor of…

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Biggest prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War

Russia freed U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan on Thursday as part of the biggest prisoner exchange of its kind since the end of the Cold War.…

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Kremlin says Russia will shoot down Ukraine’s F-16 fighter jets

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian forces would shoot down U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine, and that the F-16s would have no significant impact on the course…

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Moldova expels Russian diplomat, summons envoy to protest over treason case

Moldova said on Thursday it had expelled a Russian diplomat and called in Russia's ambassador to issue a formal protest, after detaining two Moldovan officials on treason and conspiracy allegations…

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Russia says the Middle East is teetering on the brink of war

Russia said on Wednesday that the Middle East was teetering the brink of a major war and that key players were continuing to raise the stakes. "The region is currently…

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Russia starts third stage of tactical nuclear drills

Russia has begun the third stage of drills to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. "In accordance with the decision of the president…

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Russia launches one of war’s largest drone attacks on Ukraine

Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war's largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said on…

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Russian navy starts major drills involving most of its fleet

The Russian navy started planned exercises involving most of its fleet as well as 20,000 personnel and 300 ships, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing the defence ministry. The…

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EU transfers 1.5 billion euros from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

The European Union will transfer 1.5 billion euros in proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.Western countries blocked around $300…

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Russian drone debris found in Romania, NATO says no sign of intentional attack

Romania said it found Russian drone fragments on its territory on Thursday and NATO said it saw no sign of an intentional attack on the alliance's territory after Moscow troops…

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City of Moscow hikes pay for contract soldiers to $60,000 a year

Residents of Moscow who sign up to fight in Ukraine will receive a down payment of 1.9 million roubles ($21,777) from the city, taking their annual pay in their first…

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UPDATED: Moscow says Russian, Chinese bombers staged joint patrol near Alaska

Russian and Chinese bomber jets carried out a joint patrol over far eastern Russia and the Bering Sea near Alaska, Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday. It said “Russian space forces’…

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