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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that he had "information" China was supplying weapons to Russia, amid an escalating row between Kyiv and Beijing over China's support for Moscow. Zelensky said last Wednesday that Kyiv knew of at least 155 Chinese nationals deployed to assist Moscow's invasion, a day after claiming the ...
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Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organization," a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's de facto rulers. The Islamist group seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, when American forces supporting the country's internationally recognized government pulled ...
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The Kremlin on Wednesday declined to specify when a 30-day moratorium on strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure would end -- or whether it would be extended -- just hours before the agreement was set to expire. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 18 he had ordered his army to halt attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure for 30 ...
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Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, suggested British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the country, in an interview with The Times newspaper published Saturday. Kellogg suggested they could have areas of responsibility west of the Dnipro River, as part of a "reassurance force", with a ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet US envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday for talks on the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin said, cautioning they were unlikely to reach a breakthrough. US President Donald Trump is pressing Moscow and Kyiv to end the more than three-year conflict but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin ...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said Russia was "dragging" China into the war in Ukraine, as he accused Beijing of knowing that dozens of its citizens were being recruited by Moscow's army to fight. Zelensky -- whose war leadership has hit turbulence with Donald Trump in the White House -- also said that Kyiv was ready to buy up to $50 ...
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At least 21 Ukrainians were wounded during Russian attacks across the country overnight, regional officials said on Wednesday, as Moscow stepped up its aerial bombardment despite US efforts to secure a ceasefire. The worst attack left 15 people wounded in the central Ukrainian industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk, the governor Sergiy Lysak wrote ...
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The United States and Russia will hold talks on Thursday in Istanbul on restoring some of their embassy operations that have been drastically scaled back following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the US State Department said. The talks, the second of their kind, come after President Donald Trump reached out to Russia following the start of his ...
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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians launched, on Tuesday, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to head to the International Space Station. The MS-27 craft, which was decorated to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, took off at 10:47 am (0547 GMT), according to televised images shown by the Russian ...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed disappointment on Sunday over the lack of a "response" from the United States to Russian President Vladimir Putin's "refusal" to agree to a full and unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, following new deadly strikes, particularly in Kyiv. The United States had proposed a 30-day ceasefire in March, ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday called for "strong action" if Russia continued "to refuse peace," days after a Russian ballistic missile killed nine children in Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. Despite US and European efforts to secure peace in Ukraine, Russia continued "to murder children and civilians," Macron ...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that Moscow is increasing its aerial bombardment after Russia mounted a "massive" missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing two people and wounding at least seven. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that "the number of Russian air attacks is increasing," which ...