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Russia, Ukraine confirm prisoner swap deal
Ukraine and Russia swapped 115 prisoners of war from each side on Saturday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, the first exchange…
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Putin is paralyzed in crisis – again
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainian military officials are perplexed. They’d expected a bigger and much more ferocious pushback to their surprise…
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Ukraine takes Russian town of 5000 in largest seizure to date
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country’s troops have full control of the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in their incursion into…
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Russia sends 447 goats to North Korea after Kim Jong Un sucks up to Putin
Goats for guns? After a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June at which the international pariahs…
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Technology
Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and…
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Putin accuses Ukraine of a ‘large-scale provocation’ with its raid in southwestern Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described a Ukrainian incursion into the country’s southwestern Kursk region as a “large-scale provocation” as his officials asserted that…
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Ukraine claims sinking of Russia submarine in Sevastopol
The Ukrainian military said it launched a successful strike against a Russian submarine on Friday and damaged an S-400 air defense system in occupied Crimea.…
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Putin threatens retaliation if US deploys long-range missiles in Germany
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened a tit-for-tat response should Washington deploy long-range missiles in Germany, saying Moscow would answer by placing similar missiles within striking…
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Just In: Poland mulls shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine amid wave of deadly attacks
Poland is weighing up whether it can intercept Russian rockets on course to strike Ukrainian cities, Warsaw has said, as Western allies step up shipments…
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Russian court orders arrest of opposition leader Navalny’s widow
A court in Russia has ordered the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be arrested in absentia, part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown…
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