Category: 1. Russia
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Trump delays shutdown of program tracking deportation of Ukrainian children
The Trump administration has temporarily reversed its decision to shut down an initiative that tracks alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine and the deportation of Ukrainian children, The Washington Post reported, citing congressional sources.
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Putin Floats UN-Backed Transitional Government in Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin said late Thursday that Russian forces have a “strategic initiative” on the front line in Ukraine and floated the idea of establishing a “transitional” government in Kyiv under…
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Germany plans to send peacekeepers to Ukraine after Russia agrees
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said that Germany is ready to send a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine if Russia agrees to it. This was reported in the Politico newspaper.
“I cannot imagine a…
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Nuum, we hardly knew ye What the end of another ‘YouTube killer’ reveals about Russia’s online video market — Meduza
In December 2023, Russia’s largest cellular network operator, MTS, launched a video hosting platform called Nuum. The site was meant to be yet another domestic alternative to YouTube alongside the services VK Video and RuTube — but just over…
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Russia preparing offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia
Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time as Russian forces prepare for a new offensive in Ukraine’s Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said following the “Coalition of the Willing”…
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Foreign instructors left Ukraine without training the AFU to use Western weapons
Foreign instructors who came to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use Western weapons have left one of the training grounds and left the country after the Russian Armed Forces struck Ukrainian territory, a former…
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Putin Suggests Temporary Administration For Ukraine To Move Toward Ending War
Ukraine reported multiple Russian drone strikes overnight, including the largest such strike on the city of Kriviy Rih since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, while Russia claimed it downed two Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and…
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Russia’s Defunct Mercenary Group Hopes To Make A Killing On Bottled Water
Russia’s most infamous mercenary company, the now-defunct Wagner Group, is notorious for many things: ruthless fighting prowess, brutal war crimes, the failed mutiny by its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin -– and the plane crash that killed him…
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Russian court nationalizes oil company allegedly controlled by former Yukos shareholder
An arbitration court in Kaliningrad has ruled in the Prosecutor General’s favor and transferred 100 percent of the shares of the oilfield services group Borets to the state. According to the newspaper Kommersant, the court ordered the decision…
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