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Russian strikes kill five in Ukraine

Russian strikes Sunday on Ukraine killed five people and badly damaged energy infrastructure, temporarily severing power supplies to tens of thousands and prompting neighbouring Poland put ground defence on high alert.

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Russia intensifies strikes on Ukraine railways

The head of Ukraine’s railways said Saturday that Russia was intensifying a campaign of air strikes on the network in an attempt to isolate frontline communities ahead of winter...

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Russia looking to ‘escalate’ war, says Zelensky

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky warned Europe on Thursday that recent drone incursions showed Russia was looking to ‘escalate’ its aggression, as he offered his country’s war-honed expertise to help counter the threat...

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Denmark warns EU over Russia ‘hybrid war’

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday urged Europe to step up its response to Russia’s ‘hybrid war’, as she hosted EU leaders for defence talks held under tight security following mystery drone flights...

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Ukraine could be authorised to hit deep into Russia: US

US president Donald Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg has floated the possibility of long-range strikes by Ukraine against Russia with American weapons, following the administration’s recent pivot on the conflict...

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Russia vows to press offensive

The Kremlin said Wednesday it would press on with its military offensive in Ukraine and rejected US president Donald Trump’s claim that Kyiv’s army could retake territory it had seized.

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Russia slams UN vote on Iran sanctions

Russia on Saturday slammed the UN Security Council vote to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and warned of a risk of an ‘escalation of tensions’.

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EU proposes new sanctions package against Russia

The European Commission said Friday it has presented a fresh package of sanctions against Russia for approval by member states, as the bloc seeks to up the pressure on Moscow over the war on Ukraine.

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Russian strikes kill 2 in Ukraine

Russian strikes in Ukraine killed two people and wounded at least nine others, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, as Moscow presses forward with its over three-year war despite Western condemnation.

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Cluster bombs kill, wound 1,200 in Ukraine since 2022: monitor

Cluster munitions have killed or injured more than 1,200 civilians in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, a monitor said Monday, decrying ‘troubling setbacks’ in global efforts to eradicate the weapons...

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Russian drone entry poses new security challenge: Romania

Romania on Sunday strongly condemned the entry of a Russian drone into its airspace during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine, saying Moscow’s actions pose a ‘new challenge’ to Black Sea security...

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One killed as two trains derail in Russian region

Two trains in separate parts of Russia’s western Leningrad region derailed early Sunday, leaving a train driver dead and disrupting railway traffic, the region’s governor said.

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Tectonic shift over the fault lines

On March 1, 2001, president George W Bush, speaking at the National Defence University in Washington DC, stated that the United States and Russia ‘are not and must not be strategic adversaries.’ Yet, more than two decades later, as the 2024 US presidential elections approached, Republican nominee Donald Trump remarked during a televised interview on November...

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Russia claims another village in Ukraine

Russia on Saturday said it had captured a new village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region, which Moscow’s forces say they reached at the beginning of July...

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India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit,’ turns to EU

INDIA found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity...

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Peace talks frozen as Zelensky warns Putin: Moscow

Moscow said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on ‘pause’ as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin still had plans to try to capture the whole of Ukraine.

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Poland warns of escalation, holds NATO talks

Poland gathered its NATO allies for urgent talks on Wednesday after Russian drones flew into Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine, prime minister Donald Tusk said, warning that the situation was inching closer to ‘open conflict’...

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Russian attack kills 24 in Ukraine

A Russian strike on Tuesday killed 24 people waiting for pension payments in a front-line town of eastern Ukraine where Russian forces are massing forces for a large-scale offensive, officials said...