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Ukraine steps up mercenary recruitment to conceal losses, treats them like ‘cannon fodder’: Russia
Jul 11, 2023 15:42Ukraine has stepped up its recruitment of mercenaries from across the globe in efforts to conceal the catastrophic losses of its military forces in the raging war against Russia, Moscow’s Defense Ministry has declared in an official statement.
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Top Russian diplomats blast US, NATO over Ukraine aims
Jul 11, 2023 13:23Senior Russian diplomats have lashed out at the US for pushing a massive publicity campaign to win public support for any “anti-Russia decisions” at the NATO summit currently underway in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
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Russia warns of Ukraine bid to draw NATO into 'World War III'
Jul 08, 2023 14:00Russia’s United Nations envoy has fiercely rejected Western media reports implying that Moscow was plotting a false-flag operation at a major Ukrainian nuclear power plant, insisting that Kiev was using the false narrative to draw the US-led NATO military alliance into its war.
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Belarus president says Wagner chief in Russia; Kremlin says ‘not following’ Prigozhin’s movements
Jul 06, 2023 14:59Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group is no longer in his country but in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
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IAEA wants further access to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid fears of potential attack
Jul 06, 2023 13:12The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it needs more access to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine amid sabotage warnings.
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Hungary threatens to retaliate over Ukraine's sanctioning of OTP
Jul 06, 2023 07:35Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto says Budapest would block EU funding of arms transfers to Ukraine unless Kiev removes OTP Bank from its blacklist.
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Russia foils Ukraine drone attacks on Moscow
Jul 04, 2023 17:12Russia says its Air Force units have foiled a Ukrainian drone attack on the capital Moscow, though one of the attacks prompted authorities to briefly close one of the city’s international airports.
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CIA chief made secret trip to Ukraine prior to Wagner mutiny: US official
Jul 01, 2023 12:33CIA Director William Burns made a secret trip to Ukraine, prior to the Wagner Group's armed mutiny against Moscow, US newspapers have reported.
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Experts rebuke West's portrayal of weakened Putin as merely 'wishful thinking'
Jun 27, 2023 17:55EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell claims Russia may have entered an era of political instability and internal fragility following Vladimir Putin's brief standoff with the Wagner Group, but experts insist the West's portrayal of a weakened Putin is merely based on wishful thinking.
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EU sanctions four Iranian entities over allegations of drone supplies to Russia
Jun 24, 2023 06:33The European Union has imposed sanctions on four Iranian entities over what it claims to be the supply of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia in the war against Ukraine.