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UK PM Keir Starmer Tells Joe Biden UK Support For Ukraine “Unwavering”

July 5, 2024 admin

The leaders discussed their shared commitment to the special relationship between the UK and US. London: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told US President Joe Biden on Friday that British support for Ukraine’s war with Russia was “unwavering”, in a first call hours after Britain’s new leader took charge. “The leaders reiterated their steadfast commitment…

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Ukraine’s Army retreats from positions as Russia marches into strategically vital town

July 5, 2024 admin

A serviceman of the 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces walks down a street, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine’s Army has retreated from a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, Nazar Voloshyn,…

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Russia says captured district of key Ukraine town of Chasiv Yar

July 4, 2024 admin

A serviceman walks down a street, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia said on Wednesday its forces had captured a district in the key hilltop town of Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow has been pressing…

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Russia says captured two more east Ukrainian villages

July 1, 2024 admin

A Ukrainian serviceman of the Ochi reconnaissance unit collects a parachute of a Furia drone after a flight over Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday, June 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Russia said on July 1 it had captured two more east Ukrainian villages, as Moscow’s forces have continued…

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Russia Shoots Down 5 Aerial Targets Over Crimea, Says Governor

July 1, 2024 admin

Russia shot down five aerial targets over Crimea on Monday. (Representational) Moscow: Russia shot down five aerial targets over Crimea on Monday, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean port of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said on his Telegram channel. Fragments of the downed targets fell in the coastal area and near Balaklava, which is a part…

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Missile fragments hit apartment building in Kyiv suburb, damage balconies

June 30, 2024 admin

Missile fragments fell on a northern suburb of Kyiv on Sunday, damaging balconies on a multi-storey apartment building, officials said. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said two female residents were being treated for severe stress at the site in the city’s Obolon district. The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Serhiy…

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Russian Strike On Ukraine Town Kills 7, Zelensky Asks Allies For More Weapons

June 29, 2024 admin

Kyiv: A Russian strike on the south Ukrainian town of Vilniansk killed at least seven people, Kyiv said, in an attack that came hours after Russia said a Ukrainian drone killed five people on its border village. Both countries said two children were killed in each attack, in a deadly day in the more than…

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Russian shelling of Ukrainian front-line villages kills four and hits top floors of an apartment bloc

June 29, 2024 admin

Rescuers work at a site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on June 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian shelling of front-line villages in eastern Ukraine killed four people while rescuers in the city of Dnipro dug…

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Russia presses its offensive in Ukraine and issues new threats as the West tries to blunt the push

June 29, 2024 admin

Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. That, in turn, has brought new threats by President Vladimir Putin to retaliate against the West — either directly or indirectly. The…

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Russia Releases 10 Ukrainian Civilian Prisoners: Volodymyr Zelensky

June 28, 2024 admin

Some of those released have been in prison since 2017. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday 10 civilians, including a politician and two priests, taken prisoner in Russia and Belarus had been freed in a deal mediated by the Vatican. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners throughout their two-year conflict, typically in…

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