85 m. ago Ukraine war briefing: Putin awards ‘courage’ medal to Russian general sought by ICC over alleged crimes against humanity in Ukraine

Army chief of staff Valery Gerasimov is accused of war crimes for directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects in Ukraine under an arrest warrant from the international criminal court. What we know on day 1,294See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Trump says he is ready to impose new sanctions on Russia. What might happen now?

Measures so far have not induced Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine. Will fresh sanctions finally halt Putin’s advance?EU officials are meeting their US counterparts to discuss what could be the first coordinated transatlantic sanctions against Russia since Donald Trump returned to the White House. The US president, who has previously stepped back from financial threats to Russia, has this week said he is ready to move to a second stage of sanctions. Their form, if they were to come, is however not yet clear. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago ‘Putin wants us to panic’: Why Russia launched the largest aerial strike of the war so far

The Russian army launched a fresh drone assault on Kyiv on Sunday thought to be the largest of the war so far

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14 h. ago EU and US officials meet as Trump says he is ready to impose further sanctions on Russia

Europe and US consider further actions to weaken Russia after it launched its largest-ever air attack on Ukraine over the weekendThe EU’s most senior sanctions envoy is holding talks in Washington with US officials after Donald Trump said he was ready to take further action against Russia over the war in Ukraine.David O’Sullivan, the EU sanctions envoy, is meeting US counterparts on Monday, as Europe and the US look for tougher measures to weaken Vladimir Putin’s war machine after Russia launched its largest-ever air attack on Ukraine over the weekend. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago What could Trump’s ‘second phase’ of sanctions against Russia involve?

Trump on Sunday signalled he may finally escalate sanctions on Moscow or its oil buyers

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27 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump says ready for more Russia sanctions

US treasury secretary foreshadows oil tariffs in cooperation with Europe; Alaska meeting gave Putin the publicity he wanted, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,293Asked by a reporter at the White House on Sunday if he was ready to move to “the second phase” of sanctions targeting Russia, Donald Trump responded: “Yeah, I am.” The US president stopped short of saying he was committed to such a decision or what a second phase might entail. The White House did not immediately respond to an email on Sunday asking what steps Trump was contemplating. Trump said on Sunday night that “certain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday individually” and he would also speak to Vladimir Putin soon.The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Sunday that the US and the EU could put “secondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil”, pushing the Russian economy to the brink of collapse and bringing Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. China is a major ...

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35 h. ago WW3 fears rise to new heights as China's hidden role in Ukraine war 'exposed'

The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has been grinding on for nearly four years, but a huge new revelation has been made which points to Chines involvement in fighting

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36 h. ago Russian drone attack kills four and hits government building in Kyiv

A mother and three-month-old child were among those killed

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39 h. ago Mass mortuaries, forensics and rare cooperation with Russia: The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead

Bryony Gooch speaks to a forensic specialist about the ongoing work to put names to bodies in Ukraine after Moscow agreed to return thousands of the fallen

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39 h. ago Putin's missiles HITS Zelensky government building for first time: Russia successfully strikes key offices of Ukrainian administration in boldest attack since war began in 2022

The dramatic attack on the Cabinet of Ministers came as more than 800 drones and missiles were launched into Ukraine overnight in what has been branded an 'escalation of terror'.

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42 h. ago Baby and woman killed during Putin's record 800 drone attack on Ukraine as NATO scramble warplanes

The 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old son died in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, with dozens of people injured in the Russian terror.

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60 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: We're not being told the truth about Ukraine. This was the moment the mask slipped and I saw why the elites want to wage this hideous war for ever...

It looks as if the war in Ukraine will go on for many years to come. And this will not be an accident. It may even be what the West secretly wants...

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3 d. ago Foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before any peace deal would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin warns

Putin's comments came hours after European leaders pledged their commitment to a potential peacekeeping force

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3 d. ago Russia boasts it is ‘world leader’ in prosthetic limbs due to war in Ukraine

Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyov, a relative of Vladimir Putin, said troops returning from the battlefield had helped push Russia’s prosthetic developments

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4 d. ago Trump tells European leaders that buying Russian oil is helping Moscow fund war against Ukraine

Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries, led by French President Emmanuel Macron

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4 d. ago PSG at centre of massive conflict following new £57m signing's explosive comments

Russia and Ukraine have been at war since 2022 and Paris Saint-Germain's summer business has left the European champions with team-mates on opposite sides of the conflict

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4 d. ago Trump claims Russia and Ukraine will have peace but 'they're not ready yet'

Donald Trump has given an update on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine – claiming peace could come, but they're not entirely sure when despite ongoing peace discussions

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5 d. ago Sen. Mitch McConnell warns: ‘This is the most dangerous period since before World War Two’

‘What we need to do is avoid the headline at the end of the war, ‘Russia wins, America loses.’ It has huge worldwide implications,’ McConnell said of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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5 d. ago German foreign minister seeks India's help to bring ally Russia into Ukraine peace talks

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has urged India to press its close ally Russia to return to peace talks over the war in Ukraine

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5 d. ago French hospitals told to prepare for war in Europe by next year in leaked Government letter

The country’s health ministry has instructed hospitals to prepare for a ‘major military engagement’ by March 2026

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