6 h. ago Putin sent Trump a message on Ukraine ceasefire idea, talks of ‘cautious optimism’

he Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent U.S. President Donald Trump a message about his proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine via Trump’s special envoy and that there were grounds for “cautious optimism.” Putin held late night talks in Moscow with Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, to discuss the U.S. proposal […]

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24 h. ago Putin backs US ceasefire idea for Ukraine, but says details need to be sorted out

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation between Moscow and the West in decades. Putin’s support – though caveated – for the U.S. ceasefire proposal offers the best chance so far to end […]

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27 h. ago Kremlin says there’s ‘nothing’ for Russia in a US ceasefire idea for Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide said on Thursday he had told Washington that a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States to pause the war in Ukraine would simply give Kyiv’s forces a much-needed battlefield respite. Russia’s advances along the front since mid-2024 and U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to strike a […]

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46 h. ago UK pollution fears ease after cargo ship crash, Russian captain still in detention

Fears of an environmental disaster eased on Wednesday, two days after a container ship ploughed into a stationary U.S. fuel tanker off northeast England, as the vessel’s owner said the detained captain was a Russian national. The Portuguese-flagged Solong had crashed with no obvious explanation into the larger Stena Immaculate, a tanker carrying jet fuel […]

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47 h. ago Ukraine set to lose Kursk pocket, its foothold inside Russia

Ukrainian troops appeared on the point of losing their hard-won foothold inside Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday as Moscow claimed further advances there and military bloggers on both sides said Kyiv’s forces were withdrawing. Ukraine sprang one of the biggest shocks of the war on August 6 last year by storming across the border and […]

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52 h. ago Wary Russia awaits details from US on Ukraine ceasefire plan

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was awaiting details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, while senior Moscow sources said a deal would have to take account of Russia’s advances and address its concerns. After Russian forces made gains in 2024, U.S. President Donald Trump reversed U.S. policy on the war, launching bilateral talks […]

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53 h. ago Over €1.2 billion in Russian assets frozen in Cyprus amid ongoing sanctions

Over €1.2 billion in Russian assets frozen in Cyprus amid ongoing sanctions  KNEWS - The English Edition of Kathimerini Cyprus

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55 h. ago Captain arrested in UK ship crash is Russian national, owner says

The ship’s captain arrested in connection with a crash into a US flagged tanker off the coast of England is a Russian national, the German company which owns the vessel said on Wednesday. The Solong crashed into the Stena Immaculate, a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military, on Monday. A day later, British […]

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3 d. ago Cyprus Court Rejects Russian Oligarch’s Bid to Keep Citizenship

Cyprus Court Rejects Russian Oligarch’s Bid to Keep Citizenship  KNEWS - The English Edition of Kathimerini Cyprus

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3 d. ago Medical services find no external injuries on infant in suspected abuse case

The forensic medical services reported on Tuesday that no external injuries were found during Monday’s examination of the 19-month-old child suspected of being violently shaken by a nursery teacher in Nicosia. The kindergarten teacher is set to be interrogated in the coming days, as authorities continue their investigation into the allegations. The father of the […]

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3 d. ago US and Ukraine hold talks in Saudi Arabia after major drone attack on Russia

Ukrainian and U.S. officials held crunch talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to find a path towards ending the war with Russia, hours after Kyiv’s forces launched their largest drone attack on Moscow to date. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hopes the meeting in Jeddah will revive “pragmatic” U.S. ties after his disastrous talks with U.S. President […]

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3 d. ago BirdLife calls on EAC after another rare vulture found electrocuted

BirdLife Cyprus on Tuesday morning said another vulture was found dead under a voltage power line of the electricity authority (EAC) in the Korfi area of Limassol. According to BirdLife, the two-year old male vulture showed “apparent burns and clear indications of electrocution to his body”. An autopsy was ordered to unambiguously determine the cause […]

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3 d. ago Russian capital shaken: Ukraine’s drone strike halts air & rail transport

Ukraine targeted Moscow early on Tuesday in what seemed its biggest drone attack of the war on the Russian capital, killing at least one person, sparking fires and suspending air and train transport in the region, authorities said. “Today at 4 a.m. a massive drone attack began on Moscow and the Moscow region,” Moscow Region […]

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3 d. ago Three dead, nine injured in Ukrainian attack on Russian mall

Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a Ukrainian strike on a shopping centre in the village of Belaya, located in the Belovsky district of Russia’s Kursk region, local governor Alexander Khinshtein wrote in his Telegram channel, citing preliminary data. According to Khinshtein, the strike was carried out in the evening. All […]

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4 d. ago Russia expels British diplomat and spouse for ‘intelligence work’

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that two people connected to Britain’s embassy in Moscow had been ordered to leave the country for performing intelligence work, Russian state news agency TASS reported. It cited the FSB as saying that both individuals had deliberately declared false information about themselves when entering Russia and that […]

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5 d. ago France to tap Russian assets for €195m million euros this year

France will use interest from Russian assets to fund another €195 million in arms for Ukraine, Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said a newspaper interview. France also plans to hand over some of its older armoured fighting vehicles, such as its AMX-10RC and personnel carriers, Lecornu told weekend newspaper La Tribune. “Thanks to interest from […]

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6 d. ago Russian offensive under way against Ukrainian forces in Kursk region

Russian troops have launched a large-scale offensive to retake swaths of the western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said on Saturday. Ukrainian troops stormed into Russia’s Kursk region last summer, taking chunks of territory in an unexpected lightning attack more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

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6 d. ago France crush Ireland to go top in Six Nations but lose Dupont

France absorbed early setbacks including the loss of captain Antoine Dupont through injury to beat defending champions Ireland 42-27 at the Aviva Stadium and move into pole position for the Six Nations title on Saturday. Dupont sustained a knee injury after half an hour, but Les Bleus overturned a 13-8 deficit with brutal force to […]

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6 d. ago At least 14 killed, 37 wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukraine, Kyiv says

At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets, and drones, causing damage to eight multi-storey buildings […]

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6 d. ago Probe ordered into handling of infant’s injury at daycare centre

Deputy chief of police Panikos Stavrou has ordered an administrative investigation into a complaint filed by a mother that her infant had been abused at a daycare centre in Limassol and press reports over the way the police had handled the case. The police said the investigation was ordered at the suggestion of Justice Minister […]

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