Conflict
No cease-fire while Ukraine is on the offensive, Putin says
Vladimir Putin said he does not reject the idea of peace talks over Ukraine, but the Russian president added that there could be no cease-fire…
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Politics
Ukraine changes date of Christmas, in slap at ‘Russian heritage’
Ukraine is on a mission to shed the vestiges of historic Russian influence — and now it’s even got rid of Russian Christmas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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World
Moscow blames Kyiv for missile attacks in southern Russia
Russian forces on Friday pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, while Moscow accused…
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Politics
US expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September
U.S. Abrams tanks are likely to arrive on the Ukrainian battlefield in September, according to six people familiar with the planning, as Kyiv’s forces push…
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Politics
Russia blames Ukraine for drone attacks in Moscow, Crimea
Several drone attacks struck Crimea and Moscow overnight, causing the evacuation of several villages in the Russian-occupied peninsula and damaging buildings in the vicinity of…
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Politics
Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK
KYIV – Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Vadym Prystaiko as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, after the envoy criticized the Ukrainian president in public. Zelenskyy’s decree,…
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World
Ukraine appears to claim responsibility for bridge explosion
Ukraine Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has made what appears to be the clearest admission yet that Ukrainian forces were responsible for an attack last…
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World
Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Russia, president of Belarus says
The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his Wagner troops are in their field camps, the president…
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Politics
Russia’s General Armageddon disappears, as Kremlin bats away arrest rumors
Sergei Surovikin, Russia’s “General Armageddon,” has vanished from public view after the Wagner Group’s aborted weekend mutiny — amid reports he has been detained over…
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General
Thursday’s letters: Icy gridlock a small price for environment?
Traffic makes its way along a snow covered road in Edmonton, Monday Nov. 14, 2022. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia I’m surprised at the lack…
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