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It looks like an ordinary train waiting to depart an ordinary station, but through its fogged windows, a Ukrainian serviceman with face injuries lies stretched out on a gurney. All of the other blue-and-yellow carriages of this train operated by the military are carrying wounded soldiers to hospitals away from the precarious front line. Nearly…
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A drone this week helped Ukrainian troops attack a military training facility of Russian troops in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. As the Ukrainian drone spotted the Russian troops, a 660-pound rocket, reportedly packed with hundreds of grenade-sized submunitions, attacked them. At the time of the attack on October 15, there were about 24…
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A view shows residential buildings and cars damaged by a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine October 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: STRINGER Russia said on Saturday (October 12, 2024) it had downed 47 Ukrainian drones, while Kyiv reported neutralising 24 drones fired by Moscow. The Ukrainian air force said…
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Serhiy Tsapok surveyed the smouldering ruins of pine trees, blackened stumps as far as the eye can see that bear witness to a scorched nation. “They’re dead now,” the weary ranger said of the trees he’d nursed for almost two decades. The 41-year-old’s daily route through the Ukrainian forests, once a joy, has become a…
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U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during an event on gun violence in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Thursday (September 26, 2024) a “surge” in assistance to Ukraine including nearly $8 billion in military…
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks on the Russian attack in Poltava, Ukraine, on September 03, 2024. | Photo Credit: X/@ZelenskyyUa President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said dozens of people were killed in a Russian attack Tuesday (September 3, 2024) on the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, which hit a military educational facility. I received preliminary reports on…
Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar with Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi during a meeting on the sidelines of ASEAN meetings, in Vientiane, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Jaishankar meets Chinese FM Wang in Laos, pushes for urgency in resolving LAC standoff For the second time this month, External Affairs Minister…
Student life was barely back to normal after Covid-19 when Russia invaded Ukraine (Representational) Kyiv, Ukraine: Anton Yushyn spent four years studying Italian at university in Kyiv but the outbreak of war taught him the most valuable lesson of his student life: to prioritise what matters most. When he enrolled at Kyiv National Linguistic University,…
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Toyota president Akio Toyoda was one of the executives banned from entering Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Russia has banned the head of Toyota and 12 other senior Japanese business figures from entering the country, prompting a protest by Tokyo on July 24. The list published by Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday includes Toyota…
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File picture of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Kremlin in Moscow | Photo Credit: via Reuters Observing that India has a longstanding relationship with Russia, the U.S. has said that it has encouraged New Delhi to “utilise” that relationship with Moscow and urge President Vladimir Putin to end the…