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Russia Shoots Down 5 Aerial Targets Over Crimea, Says Governor

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Russia Shoots Down 5 Aerial Targets Over Crimea, Says Governor

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

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Missile fragments hit apartment building in Kyiv suburb, damage balconies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Russia Releases 10 Ukrainian Civilian Prisoners: Volodymyr Zelensky

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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Russia warns of ‘response’ against U.S. drones over Black Sea

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Russia warns of ‘response’ against U.S. drones over Black Sea

Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia’s Defence Minister ordered officials to prepare a “response” to U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea, the Ministry said on Friday, in an apparent warning that Moscow may take forceful action to ward off the American reconnaissance aircraft. The…

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Russian troops set their eyes on Ukraine’s once-peaceful town of Toretsk

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Russian troops set their eyes on Ukraine’s once-peaceful town of Toretsk

Compared to others in war-scarred east Ukraine, Galyna Poroshyna had been lucky to live in Toretsk, a mining town nestled in a relatively sleepy sector of the front line. Then, suddenly, the Russian assaults began, and life in the town, some 40 kilometres north of Donetsk city, deteriorated drastically. As rockets and air strikes started…

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International court seeks arrest of Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets

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International court seeks arrest of Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, gestures as he speaks to Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov prior to a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin with the top military brass in Moscow, Russia, on December 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on June 25 for Russia’s…

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