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Ukraine’s military chief says Russia’s 2025 offensives have failed

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Ukraine’s military chief says Russia’s 2025 offensives have failed

“Russian plans to create a ‘buffer zone’ in Sumy and Kharkiv regions in the north and northeast, to take the city of Pokrovsk and to capture all of Donetsk region had failed,” Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said. Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service Handout via Reuters Russia’s spring…

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Russia wants to expand war against Ukraine, Zelenskyy warns at UN

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Russia wants to expand war against Ukraine, Zelenskyy warns at UN

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told world leaders on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history” and called on the…

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U.S., E.U. trading with Moscow too: China dismisses Trump’s ‘primary funder’ of Ukraine war criticism over Russian oil purchases

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U.S., E.U. trading with Moscow too: China dismisses Trump’s ‘primary funder’ of Ukraine war criticism over Russian oil purchases

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun warned that Beijing will take countermeasures to safeguard its interests if its companies’ normal trade with Russia is obstructed. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Dismissing United States President Donald Trump’s criticism that India and China are the “primary funders” of the Ukraine war through purchases of Russian oil, Beijing…

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Zelenskyy says will meet Trump next week as Russia intensifies attacks

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Zelenskyy says will meet Trump next week as Russia intensifies attacks

A file image of U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week as Russia intensified attacks across his country. Russia carried out one of its largest…

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EU announces upgrade to partnership with India but warns of risks from India-Russia trade

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EU announces upgrade to partnership with India but warns of risks from India-Russia trade

The European Union has set out a plan to upgrade its strategic ties with India, even as it warned that India’s military exercises with Russia and its purchase of Russian oil are risks to the growing strategic ties between Brussels and New Delhi. The European Commission and the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas released ‘A…

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Russia says drone intrusion in Romania a provocation’ from Kyiv

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Russia says drone intrusion in Romania a provocation’ from Kyiv

Pilots of the Romanian Air Force fly F-16 fighter jets. | Photo Credit: AP The Russian embassy in Romania has said a drone incursion in Romanian airspace was a “provocation” by Ukraine after Moscow’s envoy was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the incident. Ambassador Vladimir Lipayev said Romania’s charge that Russia was responsible for…

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U.S. asks G7 countries to impose tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia

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U.S. asks G7 countries to impose tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia

The U.S. has asked G7 countries to impose tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia, asserting that only “unified efforts” that cut off funding to Moscow’s war machine at source can apply sufficient pressure to end “the senseless killing.” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the United States Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer were on…

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G7 finance ministers discuss possible sanctions, tariffs on supporters of Russia’s war

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G7 finance ministers discuss possible sanctions, tariffs on supporters of Russia’s war

A drone views shows the Evian Resort hotel where the 2026 G7 summit will take place in Evian-les-Bains, France, September 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Group of Seven nations’ finance ministers, in a meeting on Friday (September 12, 2025), discussed possibly imposing sanctions and trade measures such as tariffs on countries that they…

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U.S. President Trump says his patience with Putin is running out

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U.S. President Trump says his patience with Putin is running out

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (September 12, 2025) said his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin was running out, but stopped short of threatening new sanctions over the Ukraine war. Asked if his patience with Mr. Putin had run out, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah. It’s…

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