Russia

President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine if Russian “territorial integrity” is threatened has sparked deep discussion in the West as to how it would respond. “Those who are trying to blackmail us with nuclear…
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Four areas of Ukraine – controlled by Russia and pre-Moscow forces – are readying to hold referendums on joining Russia on Friday. Russia’s plan to annex around 15% of Ukrainian territory via referendums comes after Russian-installed…
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A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for mobilisation, the first since World War II, one-way tickets out of Russia swiftly sold out and ticket prices skyrocketed. The president’s address had raised fears that martial law…
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Russia might introduce a visa-free regime for Indian tourist groups, said Alina Arutyunova, deputy chairman of Moscow city tourism committee, who was in Mumbai on Tuesday. For now though, Russia is set to soon introduce e-visa for Indian…
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Ukrainian armed forces said on Monday they had recaptured more than 20 settlements in the past 24 hours amid a large counter-offensive. “In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian armed forces drove the enemy away from more than 20 settlements” and…
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Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops from swaths of territory it had occupied in the…
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Russia has terminated an agreement with Tokyo on facilitating visits by Japanese citizens to the four disputed Pacific islands, a government order showed. The agreement dating back to 1999 allowed former residents and their family members…
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A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said on Saturday, heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up in recent days amid the ongoing war.…
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Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the UN treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticized its military takeover of Europe’s largest nuclear plant soon after Russian…
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A day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully targeted the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror training camp at Balakot on February 26, 2019, to avenge the Pulwama terror strike, the Pakistanis launched a counter with US F-16 fighters and…
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