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Ukrainian drones on Thursday (September 18, 2025) hit a major Russian oil refinery some 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) from the front line, triggering a fire, officials from both countries said. The strike is the latest in a wave of drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure as Kyiv seeks to knock out Russia’s vital energy revenues…
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File picture of U.S. President Donald Trump with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will likely meet Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy next week and still hopes to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday (September…
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While foraging for mushrooms earlier this summer, a 53-year-old woman from the Sumy region of Ukraine accidentally picked up an explosive object, one of the many littered across the otherwise lush forest landscape that cover much of the region. Injured but conscious, the woman, whose identity has not been revealed by the authorities, called her…
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Olga Stefanishyna. File | Photo Credit: AFP Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday (August 27, 2025) he had appointed a former Deputy Prime Minister, Olga Stefanishyna, as Kyiv’s new ambassador to the United States, as Washington-backed efforts to halt the war with Russia intensify. Zelenskyy signed a decree unexpectedly naming Ms. Stefanishyna, who is also…
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Ukraine on Sunday (February 16, 2025) said it retook a mining village near the embattled strategic city of Pokrovsk, which Russia has tried to capture for months, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces had made gains. “A number of counter-attacks by Ukrainian forces have had some success,” a spokesman for troops in the area,…
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Washington, United States: A senior team from US President Donald Trump’s administration will start talks in Saudi Arabia with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators on ending the Ukraine war, US officials said Saturday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Trump’s Middle East negotiator Steve Witkoff will head to Saudi…
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Ukraine launched an overnight strike deep inside Russia that set fire to an oil depot in the city of Engels that serves an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday (January 8, 2025). The Governor of the Russian region said Engels and Saratov, on opposite sides of the Volga…
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German Galushchenko, the Energy Minister of Ukraine, confirmed on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) morning that Kyiv had stopped the gas flows “in the interest of national security.” File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) halted Russian gas supplies to European customers that pass through the country, almost three years into Moscow’s…
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Part of a gas installation at a gas-pumping station on the gas pipeline in the Kyiv region. – Russian gas is not scheduled to flow via Ukraine to Europe on January 1, data from Ukraine’s gas pipeline operator showed on December 31, 2024 | Photo Credit: AFP Ukraine said on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) that…
Moscow, Russia: Dozens of residents from the Russian border region of Kursk have been returned to Russia from Ukraine following rare and “painstaking” talks between Moscow and Kyiv, Moscow said Friday. Kyiv launched a major ground offensive into the Kursk region in August, capturing large swathes of Russian territory home to thousands of civilians. It…
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