The US embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, has issued a new warning to Americans to leave the country as Ukraine prepares to celebrate its Independence Day Wednesday amid the ongoing Russian aggression, MarketWatch reported. The embassy said in a security advisory that the US State...
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The European Union will propose initiating a significant training program for Ukrainian soldiers in neighboring countries, according to EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell, Radio Free Europe reported. Borrell also rejected a proposal by EU countries bordering Russia to bar Russian citizens from entering...
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A fresh drone strike has targeted the Russian military in Crimea, the latest in a series of attacks this month against Russian personnel and equipment in the annexed peninsula, the BBC reported. On Saturday, a Ukrainian drone targeting Russia's Black Sea navy was shot...
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Russia is fighting efforts by the US and other countries to officially label Russian diamonds as “conflict diamonds,” so-called because their sale helps pay for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times reported. Russia is the world’s largest supplier of small diamonds. Myanmar’s...
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China will send a contingent of troops to Russia to attend joint military drills involving several other countries, including India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan, Radio Free Europe reported. Chinese officials said that participation in the joint exercises is “unrelated to the current international and...
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Estonia will remove all memorials in the eastern city of Narva that date to the Soviet Union, Politico reported. The government's decision to remove a controversial tank from Narva, a Russian-speaking city located on the Russian border, sparked tensions with local authorities in recent...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to increase military cooperation with allies Monday, saying Moscow is prepared to provide them with the most cutting-edge weaponry, the Associated Press reported. Putin asserted that Russia's exports of weapons are crucial to the creation of a “multipolar world,”...
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Kyiv and Moscow accused each other over the weekend of attacking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station in southern Ukraine, which had been hit several times in the previous week, Agence France-Presse wrote. The plant, the largest in Ukraine and Europe, has been under Russian control...
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Russia is reportedly offering amnesty to prison inmates who agree to fight in Ukraine in an effort to avoid an unpopular full-blown conscription program, the Associated Press reported. The reports come amid rumors that hundreds of Russian soldiers are refusing to fight and attempting...
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Ukraine’s air force reported Wednesday that nine Russian jets were destroyed in a fatal spate of explosions at a Crimean air base, amid speculation that the blasts were the result of a Ukrainian strike, a significant escalation in the war, according to the Associated...
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Guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and assisting the Ukrainian military by pinpointing vital targets in a rising threat to Russia’s grip on seized territories of southeastern Ukraine, the Associated Press reported. The growing opposition has...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that talks with Kyiv or its foreign allies may not take place if Moscow stages referendums on joining Russia in occupied areas of Ukraine, according to Radio Free Europe. Russian forces and Moscow-backed rebels now control huge swathes of...
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British intelligence officials warned that the Ukraine war is set to enter a new phase, saying the Russian military is “almost certainly” massing in the south in preparation for a Ukrainian counter-offensive, Sky News wrote. Long convoys of military trucks, tanks, and towed artillery...
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A new report from Amnesty International said the Ukrainian military has occasionally put people at risk of Russian strikes by establishing bases in schools, homes and other sites in inhabited regions, the Associated Press wrote. A Russian court found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty...
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The US Treasury Department announced new penalties against Russian companies and individuals associated with Vladimir Putin, including a famous former Olympic gymnast, Alina Kabaeva, whom the US government believes to be the Russian president’s girlfriend, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Russian Army looks...
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Pope Francis hopes to meet with Patriarch Kirill, the “pro-war” leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, to promote peace when he attends a meeting of religious leaders in Kazakhstan this fall, Euronews reported. It would be the first meeting between the two since they...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree authorizing a new maritime doctrine for the country’s coastal borders and naming NATO and the US as Russia’s principal threats, Radio Free Europe reported. According to the doctrine, the main dangers to Russia’s security come from the...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of committing a “war crime” by striking a jail housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the eastern Donetsk area, Politico noted. According to officials in the Donetsk People’s Republic, more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed...
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The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to identify Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism for activities in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria and Ukraine that resulted "in the deaths of countless innocent men, women and children," according to the New York Times. The language of the...
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Ukraine said work has begun at three ports to create "green corridors" for grain exports, the BBC wrote. Officials announced that "caravans" of ships headed by Ukrainian Navy boats will cruise through the Black Sea after the routes are established. Ukrainian forces destroyed a...
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