13 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer will join European leaders to meet Donald Trump in White House with Volodymyr Zelensky

The US president urged his Ukrainian counterpart to strike a deal with Russia to end the deadliest conflict since the Second World War

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14 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer expected to join European leaders meeting Donald Trump in White House with Volodymyr Zelensky

The US president urged his Ukrainian counterpart to strike a deal with Russia to end the deadliest conflict since the Second World War

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16 h. ago Moment Russian truck blown up by Ukraine strike ahead of Zelensky

Ukraine hit back against Russian advances overnight with a military truck blown up as it crossed a bridge as Volodymyr Zelensky prepares for talks with Donald Trump

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41 h. ago Moment Putin's legs 'twitch suspiciously' in Trump farewell as Russian dictator dons platforms to overcome 'Napoleon complex'

Kremlin footage captured the Russian leader's knee jolting repeatedly as he stood alongside his US counterpart at the end of their brief exchange following a joint press conference.

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53 h. ago Trump and Putin shake hands as leaders arrive for historic Alaska summit

This is the historic moment US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands as the world leaders arrived in Alaska for crunch Ukraine peace talks.

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4 d. ago Moment Ukrainian forces wipe out Russian platoon on front line as drone footage shows personnel carrier destroyed and soldiers picked off

It comes amid the Russian army's biggest 24-hour advance into Ukraine in over a year, just ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

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6 d. ago Ukrainian drone strike kills 1 in as fighting rages ahead of a planned Trump

A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone attack has killed one person and wounded two more in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region

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7 d. ago As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold warNuclear weapons – their lethal menace, dark history and future spread – are back in the headlines again and, as usual, the news is worrying, bordering on desperate. Russia’s decision last week to formally abandon the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty banning medium- and short-range nuclear missiles completes the demolition of a key pillar of global arms control. It will accelerate an already frantic nuclear arms race in Europe and Asia at a moment when US and Russian leaders are taunting each other like schoolboys.Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has repeatedly threatened the west with nuclear weapons during his war in Ukraine. Last November, Russian forces fired their new Oreshnik hypersonic, nuclear-capable intermediate-range missile at Dnipro. It travels “like a meteorite” at 10 times the speed of sound and can reach...

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8 d. ago Horrific moment chairlift collapses in a Russian resort, with four people plunging into a lake, and six hitting the ground

The ride from hell left a dozen people injured in Nalchik, in the mountainous region of Kabardino-Balkaria in southern Russia on Friday.

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1 week ago Russian influencers pose for social media video in front of burning oil depot hit by Ukraine strike... and are made to pay the price by Putin's officials

Two Russian young women and a man were ordered to make a humbling public apology for a video posing with a burning oil depot after a major Ukrainian oil strike

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2 w. ago Moment that Russian volcano explodes for first time in 600 years in dramatic eruption

The Krasheninnikov Volcano erupted overnight in the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was the epicentre of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago Moment Russia bombs key Ukrainian bridge in Kherson after mass drone strike hit tourist resort Sochi

The attacks are the latest trading of blows between Russia and Ukraine as each nation looks to focus on targeting the other's infrastructure.

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2 w. ago Russian oil depot in Sochi set ablaze by Ukrainian drone strike

Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomes long-range attack on Black Sea facility as drone and missile exchanges continue

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