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Walls close in on Zelensky

Outgunned Ukrainian forces have slowly lost territory to Russian troops over recent weeks. But in the capital Kyiv, the ground is shifting rapidly beneath president Volodymyr Zelensky’s feet...

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Trump, Putin set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Ukraine

US president Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday he expected to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia for Ukraine peace talks, in an extraordinary thaw in relations after a surprise phone call between the two leaders...

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Russian missile kills five in east Ukraine

A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said...

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Russian gas cut triggers blackouts in Moldova region

The separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria ordered a second day of rolling blackouts on Saturday, as a shutdown in Russian gas supplies starved the pro-Moscow self-proclaimed state of energy...

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Russian army’s chemical weapons chief killed

The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv — the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin’s campaign in Ukraine drags on...

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Russian economy shows signs of slowdown, top banker warns

The Russian economy is showing ‘significant’ signs of a slowdown in some sectors as it grapples with waning growth and high inflation, the head of the country’s biggest lender warned Friday...

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Putin vows more N-capable missile firing at Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic missile launched at Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat...

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G7 to give Ukraine $50b from Russian assets profits

G7 leaders have finalized details surrounding a $50 billion loan to aid Kyiv, backed by profits from Russian sovereign assets frozen after its invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement released Friday...

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Russian strike kills six in Ukraine

A Russian strike on a southern Ukraine market killed six people on Tuesday as the nation held a moment of silence to mark a major public holiday honouring troops, authorities said...

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Kyiv says struck ammo depots in Russia

Ukraine said on Saturday it had successfully struck two Russian weapons depots in the southern Krasnodar and western Tver regions, with Moscow announcing more than 1,000 evacuations...

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Russia assures of Rooppur plant completion

Foreign secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin on Wednesday thanked Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Vikentyevich Mantytskiy for Russian Federation’s ongoing support, particularly in the implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project...

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Shelling in Pokrovsk as Russia inches closer

Russian shelling killed one person in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Sunday, local authorities said, as Moscow’s troops inched closer to the key logistics hub...

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Putin says Russia ready for talks with Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready for talks with Ukraine, after having previously rebuffed the idea of negotiations while Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was on-going...

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Russian attacks kill six in east Ukraine

Russian bombardments on the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk killed six people on Wednesday, the governor of the region said, as Moscow announced it had taken another village in the area...

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A call for intellectual realignment

THE term ‘revolution’ has evolved significantly over time, while its Bengali counterpart, ‘biplob,’ has not experienced the same expansion in meaning. This may be due to the strong influence of the Bolshevik left in Bengal, which has kept ‘biplob’ confined to the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutionary models. In contrast, the word ‘revolution’ has been used...

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Ukraine incursion threatens Russian nuclear plant

Russia’s nuclear agency on Saturday said Ukraine’s shock cross-border attack posed a ‘direct threat’ to a nuclear power plant located less than 50 kilometres from the combat zone...

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Russia scrambles troops amid Ukraine incursion

Russia said Friday it was deploying more troops and munitions to a border region where Ukraine had mounted a major ground offensive, as Ukraine said a Russian strike on a supermarket in its east killed 11 people...