2 h. ago North Korean soldiers didn't know they were fighting for Putin as last words revealed

Around 4,000 of the 14,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to the front line to fight for Russia are believed to have been killed in combat but many did not know they were being sent to Ukraine

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53 h. ago Vladimir Putin arrives in China for security summit – Ukraine war live

Russian president and Indian prime minister among more than 20 world leaders attending Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in TianjinThe Guardian’s Russian affairs reporter, Pjotr Sauer, has written a piece about Putin’s trip and what it may mean for the war in Ukraine. Here is an extract of his story:Key on the agenda, analysts say, will be for Putin and Xi to align their positions on the war in Ukraine amid US efforts to end the fighting. “It is an important time for them to talk about where the war is headed and how likely it is to be stopped in the near future,” said Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre.Gabuev said Moscow wanted to know whether it could expect any further assistance from China and how Beijing would respond if the US were to ask it to put pressure on Russia to end the fighting Continue reading...

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69 h. ago North Korean leader meets families of soldiers killed in Russia’s war

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un met families of soldiers who died fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine on Friday, August 29.

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3 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: US says strikes ‘cast doubt’ on Russia’s ‘desire for peace’ as Dnipropetrovsk attacked

US diplomat John Kelley tells UN security council Washington could impose sanctions on Moscow if war continues. What we know on day 1,283Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region came under a “massive attack” early on Saturday, the region’s governor said, reporting strikes in Dnipro and Pavlograd. “The region is under a massive attack. Explosions are being heard,” Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram, warning residents to take cover. He said overnight Russian strikes killed two people in Dnipropetrovsk, which had been largely spared from intense fighting since Russia’s 2022 invasion. Kyiv acknowledged on Tuesday that Russian troops had entered the region.The United States has warned Russia to move toward peace and meet with Ukraine or face possible sanctions at an emergency meeting of the UN security council called on Friday after missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 23 people overnight on Thursday. US diplomat John Kelley told the meeting the strikes “cast doubt on the seriousness of Ru...

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8 d. ago Norway's leader is the latest to visit Ukraine as Trump weighs peace options

Norway’s prime minister says his country's multibillion-dollar military and civilian support for Ukraine’s fight to defeat Russia’s invasion will stretch into next year

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9 d. ago North Korea releases video showing 'Kim Jong Un's soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine'

The slick propaganda video, broadcast by the country's state television KRT, purports to show soldiers engaged in brutal combat in Russia's Kursk region, which borders northeastern Ukraine.

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1 week ago Tearful Kim Jong Un pays respect to North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia

A visibly emotional Kim Jong-un was seen consoling the families of North Korean soldiers killed fighting alongside Russia during the Ukraine war.

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1 week ago Tearful Kim Jong Un pays respects North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia

A visibly emotional Kim Jong-un was seen consoling families of North Korean soldiers killed during the Ukraine war.

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1 week ago Ukraine strikes key Russian pipeline while Russia bombs city as fighting shows no signs of slowing with Putin accused of setting a 'trap' with peace talk demands

The strike late on Thursday hit the Unecha oil pumping station in Russia's Bryansk region, setting off a huge fire at one of the most critical links in the pipeline.

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un pays emotional tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Russia

Kim hands out medals to ‘heroes’ sent by North Korea to help Russia expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk

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1 week ago Putin wants to ‘wriggle out’ of meeting, Zelenskyy claims, and says Russia does not want to end war – Europe live

Ukrainian president backs Donald Trump suggestion of more offensive reaction to Russian attacksKim Jong-un has hailed North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine as “heroes”, at a ceremony to honour soldiers who recently returned from the conflict, state media said on Friday.The North Korean leader said in a speech this week that his troops had displayed “fighting spirit of the heroes” during their operation to retake Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian forces – which had established a foothold there last year – the state news agency KCNA said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump suggests it would be 'impossible' for Ukraine to win the war without attacking Russia and blames Biden for failing to let Kyiv 'fight back'

Donald Trump has suggested it would be 'very hard, if not impossible' for Ukraine to prevail without attacking Russia. adding 'there is no chance of winning'.

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1 week ago Britain doesn't spend enough to keep Moscow troops at bay and is lacking 'resilience', former security adviser warns

Britain is desperately lacking the 'resilience' required to fight a war against a hardened enemy such as Russia, a former security adviser has warned.

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2 w. ago Trump isn’t fighting for peace in Ukraine, he’s managing Russia’s victory

Ukraine and democracy itself are in the crosshairs of Putin’s greatest asset - Donald Trump - and Europe’s in a panic, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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2 w. ago Ukraine cause akin to Second World War Allies, Starmer says before Alaska talks

The Prime Minister told veterans Volodymyr Zelensky’s war against Russia has the same values as the fight against the Axis powers.

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3 w. ago Zelensky signals Ukraine may give land to Russia in surprise peace move

Volodymyr Zelensky's government has told European leaders it could agree to halt fighting and give up territory that is already held by Russia as part of a European-backed peace plan, it has emerged

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4 w. ago Inside Ukraine’s effort to produce more of its own weapons to fight Putin as Trump’s support flip

Askold Krushelnycky examines how Donald Trump’s fluctuating position on the Ukraine war has encouraged Kyiv to look closer to home to produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia

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