34 h. ago Ukraine brings home bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in war with Russia

Ukraine brought home the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in the war with Russia, the Kyiv officials responsible for exchanging prisoners of war said on Wednesday. “As a result of the repatriation activities , the bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine,” the prisoner exchange coordination committee said on the Telegram messaging […]

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65 h. ago Drone war escalates: Hospitals hit in Ukraine, flights suspended in Russia

Russia and Ukraine exchanged intense drone strikes on Tuesday, disrupting air traffic and causing damage to civilian infrastructure amid a dramatic escalation in the air war between the two countries. In Ukraine, Russian drones hit multiple targets across the capital Kyiv and the southern port city of Odesa. Local officials reported damage to residential buildings […]

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9 d. ago UK threatens to sue Abramovich over use of money from Chelsea sale

Britain has threatened to take Russian businessman Roman Abramovich to court over the frozen 2.5 billion pounds in proceeds from his sale of Chelsea football club that he wanted to go to victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Britain sanctioned Abramovich in a crackdown on Russian oligarchs after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, triggering […]

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1 week ago Russia’s war in Ukraine affects availability of firefighting helicopters in Cyprus

Russia’s war in Ukraine affects availability of firefighting helicopters in Cyprus  Wildfire Today

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1 week ago Ukraine’s Zelenskiy: Ceasefire needed for peace, new round of talks must not be ’empty’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that he told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that a ceasefire was needed to move forward towards a settlement of the war with Russia. “There must be a ceasefire to move further toward peace. The killing of people must stop,” Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram of his conversation with […]

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1 week ago Ukraine keeps Russia guessing over participation in June 2 peace talks

After U.S. President Donald Trump urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together on a peace deal to end their three-year-old war, Russia proposed sitting down with Ukrainian officials next week in Istanbul. Kyiv responded by saying it was committed in principle to the search for peace, but that it was waiting for a memorandum from […]

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2 w. ago Russia launches war’s largest air attack on Ukraine, Trump ‘not happy’ with Putin

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering more sanctions on Moscow after Russia launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far. The strikes killed at least 12 people, including three children in the northern region of […]

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2 w. ago Russia launches largest aerial assault of war on Ukraine, killing 12

Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials there said. Ukrainian President […]

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3 w. ago Russia launches war’s largest drone attack after peace talks, Ukraine says

The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on Friday. Russia launched 273 drones by 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), targeting chiefly the […]

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last month Macron threatens Russia with oil and finance sanctions over war

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he was in favour of imposing new sanctions on Russia in the coming days if Moscow failed to respect a ceasefire, mentioning financial services and oil and gas as possible targets. Britain, France, Germany and Poland warned on Saturday that Russia would be hit by new punitive measures […]

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