Tag: Russia
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Ukraine Claims One of Its Biggest Attacks Inside Russia Just Destroyed Six Bombers
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Ukraine is claiming to have destroyed at least six warplanes at an airfield in Russia in a major drone attack Friday. Another eight aircraft were damaged in the attack at the military installation near Morozovsk in Russia’s Rostov region bordering Ukraine, officials told the Associated Press. Regional Gov. Vasily Golubev warned late Thursday that local…
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Russia And China Veto U.S. Resolution Calling For Immediate Cease-Fire In Gaza
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored U.N. resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 11 members in…
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Putin Declared Winner Of Russia Presidential Election
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President Vladimir Putin basked in an election victory that was never in doubt, as officials said Monday that he had won his fifth term with a record number of votes, underlining the Russian leader’s total control of the country’s political system. After facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices, Putin was set to…
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Latvia starts criminal proceedings against an EU Parliament lawmaker suspected of spying for Russia
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HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia´s state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services, according to Latvian media reports Saturday. Latvian media outlets reported that the security service, known by the abbreviation VDD, has been…
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Russia is ready for nuclear war, Putin warns the West
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President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia was ready for nuclear war if it came to it, his latest warning to the West ahead of an election this week that will see him extend his rule. “From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,” he said in an interview with Russian state…
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Ukraine should have the courage of the ‘white flag,’ negotiate end of war with Russia
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said in an interview that Ukraine, facing a possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks. The pope made his appeal during an interview recorded last month with…
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Russia warns NATO of certain war if West puts troops into Ukraine – POLITICO
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“In this case, we need to talk not about the likelihood, but about the inevitability [of a conflict]. That’s how we evaluate it,” said Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary. “These countries must also evaluate and be aware of this, asking themselves whether this corresponds to their interests, as well as the interests of the citizens of…
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War and peace: those words are forbidden in Russia today | Elena Kostyuchenko
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Every night, I am back in Russia. Last night, Mama and I were walking through a wet, springtime forest. We were going to bury the dead cat we carried in a box. I haven’t been to Russia in two years. I went on assignment to Ukraine in February 2022, but there was no returning: in…
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Russia angers Guinea’s junta after government dissolved
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Guinea’s military junta has protested to Russia’s ambassador after his embassy reportedly warned of possible unrest in the capital, Conakry. The warning was issued after junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya dissolved the government on Monday, and ordered the closure of all borders. Ambassador Alexey Popov reportedly apologised to the junta for what he called a…
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Russia holds L.A. resident, a dual citizen, on treason charges
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Ksenia Karelina had left Los Angeles around the New Year on a flight to Moscow via Istanbul. She was excited to see her younger sister, parents and grandmother in Yekaterinburg, the city east of the Ural Mountains in Russia that she had left more than a decade ago to start a new life in America.…
