U.S. President Donald Trump has unveiled a new plan to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. In fits and starts, Trump has been negotiating for a ceasefire or peace treaty between Moscow and Kyiv since he returned to the White…
Category: 1. Russia
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Russian Army Says It Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Command Post
The Russian army claimed on Thursday to have again captured the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, a key bastion for Kyiv in the eastern Kharkiv region where Russia’s soldiers have been steadily…
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Russia Says Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Army Command Post
The Russian army claimed on Thursday to have again captured the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, a key bastion for Kyiv in the eastern Kharkiv region where Russia’s soldiers have been steadily…
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Are things falling apart for Ukraine?
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News broke this week that US and…
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Reactions to Trump’s new ‘peace plan’ for Russia and Ukraine are in — and they’re mostly negative — Meduza
On November 19, several Western media outlets published details of a new “peace plan” quietly drafted by U.S. and Russian officials. The 28-point document, which was drawn up without input from Ukraine or the European Union, largely…
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The U.S. Plan for Ending the Ukraine War: What Do We Know?
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet senior U.S. army figures in Kyiv on Thursday, after Washington presented a plan to Ukraine that would end the war on terms favorable to Moscow.
The…
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Ukraine and Europe’s weakness exposed as US and Russia again negotiate behind Kyiv’s back
Renewed talk of no-longer-secret negotiations between the Kremlin and the White House over a plan to end the war in Ukraine that heavily favours Russia adds to a broader sense of doom in Kyiv and among its western partners.
Coupled with…
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‘Chaos in Ukraine’s Political Sphere’: Russia Cheers Kyiv Corruption Scandal
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin media are relishing in the biggest corruption scandal to engulf Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, slamming Western aid to the embattled country and suggesting that Washington is trying to…
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How the Ukrainian blogger photographed in the aftermath of Russia’s Mariupol maternity hospital strike became a pro-Putin propagandist — Meduza
In March 2022, Ukrainian beauty blogger Marianna Vyshemirskaya was photographed by Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Yevgeny Maloletka as they documented the aftermath of a Russian strike on a maternity hospital…
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A French court has sentenced eight people to prison for the deaths of seven Afghan migrants while crossing the English Channel
A French court has sentenced eight men aged between 23 and 45 to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years for their involvement in the deaths of seven Afghan migrants in the English Channel in 2023.
Two Iraqis,…
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