Russia

Moscow’s ambassador to Germany on Friday sharply criticized a European Union proposal to use frozen Russian state assets to help finance Ukraine, warning it would have “far-reaching consequences” for the bloc. “Any operation with sovereign…
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South Korea’s intelligence agency says North Korea has dispatched about 5,000 construction troops to Russia since September, with a total of nearly 10,000 North Korean personnel now believed to be stationed near the Russia-Ukraine border.…
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Russia on Wednesday carried out planned strategic nuclear drills, just a week after NATO launched its own annual nuclear exercises, as tensions in Europe over the Ukraine war continue to intensify. “Today we are conducting planned — I…
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President Donald Trump on Friday called on Ukraine and Russia to “stop where they are” and end the ongoing war, following a lengthy White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s remarks — made in a Truth Social…
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Ukraine imposed rolling nationwide power outages for a second consecutive day on Thursday, as Russian forces intensified attacks on the country’s energy network amid plunging temperatures, the state grid operator said. Russian strikes…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday endorsed India’s right to set its own oil trade policies, pushing back against steep 50% tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking about his regular exchanges with External…
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A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The quake hit 111 kilometers (69 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital, at a depth…
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Gazprom’s chief executive Alexei Miller says Russia has struck a deal with China to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline — but analysts warn the agreement leaves major questions unanswered. On paper, the 6,700-kilometer project would help…
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Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday its forces had seized “about half” of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, though Kyiv rejected the claim as propaganda. The ministry released drone footage showing a soldier raising a…
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Russia unleashed more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles on Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders pushed for stronger defenses and revived, but so far fruitless, U.S.-led peace…
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