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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says Russia has the initiative in the east but new Western aid is on the way
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions.
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Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says
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Russia hits Ukraine’s power grid with a ‘massive’ attack on a day marking the WWII defeat of Nazism
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Italy’s president says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding Moscow’s aggression
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Biden hosts Romanian leader at the White House to celebrate NATO partnership
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Poland detains and questions Russian man who illegally crossed from Belarus
Poland’s security officials say that a 41-year-old man from Russia has been detained and is being questioned after illegally crossing in from Russia’s ally Belarus.
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Arrested US soldier to be held for two months in Russia on theft charges
The U.S. Army says the soldier arrested in Russia late last week is being held in a pretrial detention facility. U.S. and Russian officials say Staff Sgt.
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Ukraine says it foiled a Russian spy agency plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators say they have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures.
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Key events of Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power in Russia
Throughout his 24 years in power in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has launched wars, cracked down on the political opposition and LGBTQ+ activists, stifled most independent media and consolidated his power by engineering changes to the constitution to extend his rule.
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American is sentenced to 10 days in jail for reportedly breaking into a Russian children’s library
An American English-language tutor has been arrested in Moscow on hooliganism charges for reportedly breaking into a children’s library while intoxicated and has been sentenced to 10 days in jail.
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Russia critic Kara-Murza wins Pulitzer for passionate columns written from prison cell
A critic who has written passionate columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell in Russia has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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Russian journalist arrested for years-old social media posts amid intensifying crackdown
A Russian journalist who has worked for both state-funded and independent media has been detained and faces charges of justifying terrorism through posts on the Telegram messaging app, according to her lawyer.
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Double European weightlifting champion Pielieshenko killed in Ukraine war
The Ukrainian Olympic Committee says two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died on the front line in the war in Ukraine.
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Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West’s possible deepening role in Ukraine
Russia is threatening to strike British military facilities and says it plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons.
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Ukraine marks its third Easter at war as it comes under fire from Russian drones and troops
Russia has launched a barrage of drones on eastern Ukraine and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting as Ukraine marks its third Easter at war.
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Drone footage shows Ukrainian village battered to ruins as residents flee Russian advance
Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne.
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The Kremlin brands comments on Ukraine by France’s Macron and Britain’s Cameron as ‘dangerous’
The Kremlin’s spokesman says recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are “dangerous” and will deepen international tension around the conflict.
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Damaged in war, a vibrant church in Ukraine rises as a symbol of the country’s faith and culture
An extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka this Orthodox Easter season.
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NATO members ‘deeply concerned’ by activities such as sabotage on alliance soil. They blame Russia
NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance’s soil they attribute to Russia, and which they say constitute a threat to their security.
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Send us Patriots: Ukraine’s battered energy plants seek air defenses against Russian attacks
Ukrainian energy workers are struggling to repair the damage from intensifying airstrikes aimed at pulverizing Ukraine’s energy grid.
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Kyiv’s forces are up against a concerted Russian push in eastern Ukraine, a military official says
A senior Ukrainian military official says the situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped forces.
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Ukrainian soldiers say rear defensive lines barely exist as Russia advances
Ukrainian soldiers say they are worried fortifications are not being built quicky enough as Russian forces continue to advance along the front lines.
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New US sanctions against Russia target weapons development, ban uranium imports for nuclear power
The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of companies and people tied to Russia’s weapons development program, as well as more than a dozen Chinese entities accused of helping Moscow find workarounds to earlier penalties.
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Drone footage shows devastation in Ukraine’s strategic eastern city of Chasiv Yar as Russians near
Drone footage exclusively obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine.
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Serbia’s new government to include US-sanctioned ex-intelligence chief with close ties to Russia
Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States.
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NATO chief chides members as Ukraine’s allies say slow arms deliveries have helped Russia
NATO’s secretary general says the alliance’s member countries have failed to deliver in time what they promised to Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s army chief reports tactical retreat in the east, and warns of front-line pressure
Ukraine’s army chief says his troops have been forced to retreat from three villages in the country’s embattled east. Col. Gen.
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Two Russian journalists jailed on ‘extremism’ charges for alleged work for Navalny group
Two Russian journalists were arrested by their government on “extremism” charges and ordered by courts there to remain in custody pending investigation and trial on accusations of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
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Russia renews attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector as Kyiv launches drones at southern Russia
Russia has launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine directed at energy facilities. The energy minister said facilities in Dnipropetrovsk in the south of the country and Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv in the west had been attacked.
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Ukraine’s farm minister is the latest corruption suspect as Kyiv aims to undo recent Russian gains
A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest high-profile corruption investigation.
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Putin announces plans to visit China in May
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice.
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Belarus claims it prevented drone attacks from Lithuania. Vilnius rejects the allegations
The head of the top security agency in Belarus has claimed that the country has prevented attempted drone strikes from Lithuania that targeted the capital, Minsk, and surrounding areas.
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A Russian actress who called for peace was fined for hosting an ‘almost naked’ party
A Moscow court has imposed a 50,000-ruble ($560) fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an “almost naked” party, saying her social media posts calling for peace discredited the military.
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To pass Ukraine aid, ‘Reagan Republican’ leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump
Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress.
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Blinken begins key China visit as tensions rise over new US foreign aid bill
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as force TikTok’s China-based parent compan
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