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Former Ukrainian MP Illya Kyva has been assassinated in Russia by Ukraine's SBU security service, law enforcement sources have told BBC Ukraine. "The criminal was liquidated by using small arms," the sources said. He had been a regular…
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The Israel-Gaza war is "taking away the focus" from the conflict in Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.
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Ukraine has used US-supplied long-range missiles for the first time, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. His comments follow reports the weapons, known as ATACMS, destroyed nine helicopters at Russian bases in the east of the country.…
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"Evil cannot be trusted," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the UN General Assembly, as he urged the world to unite to end Russian aggression against his country.
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Russia has denounced as inhuman a plan by the United States to provide the Ukrainian military with ammunition containing depleted uranium.
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An independent inquiry has found no evidence that South Africa supplied weapons to Russia, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. The panel rejected claims made by the US ambassador to South Africa that a Russian ship was loaded with…
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A skyscraper in Russia's capital Moscow has been attacked by a drone for the second time in two days, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said. Several drones were shot down overnight on Monday, he said, but "one flew into the same tower at the…
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Russian authorities have detained outspoken pro-war blogger Igor Girkin, a hardline nationalist critic of Russia's flagging military campaign in Ukraine, also known as Strelkov.
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The drama over the border in Russia has hardened the view in Kyiv that Mr Putin's time as Russia's president is coming to an end. "I think the countdown has started," said Andriy Yermak, President Zelensky's closest adviser.
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In a short speech full of vitriol, Mr Putin vowed to bring the organisers of the revolt "to justice". But he called regular Wagner troops "patriots" who would be allowed to join the army, go to Belarus or return home. He did not directly…
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