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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was “confident” Russia would lose the war in Ukraine. “Today we are confident that Russia will lose this war… I’m sure that we will win because the truth is on our side,” Zelensky said…
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The expansion of Brics will be in focus when leaders of the 17-year-old grouping assemble for a summit in South Africa next week though the five member states are yet to reach common ground on the issue, people familiar with the matter…
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Russia’s air defence systems destroyed three Ukrainian drones early on Wednesday over the Kaluga region, the Russian defence ministry said. There were no casualties and no damage in the attempted attack which took place at around 5 a.m.…
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday what it called Ukraine’s “terrorist attack” on the Crimean Bridge, saying it put innocent civilians’ lives at risk, and vowed retaliation. “There can be no justification for such barbaric…
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A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in the Far East…
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With Russia introducing electronic visa (e-visa) for tourists from India and 54 other countries, travelling to Moscow has become easier. Effective August 1, 2023, tourists can apply for an e-visa online on the official website of the…
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Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport was closed to traffic early on Sunday, a Russian state news agency reported, after the city mayor said Ukrainian drones hit buildings in the capital. “Two city office tower facades were…
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Russia said it thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist act” on Moscow in the early hours of Monday, with the mayor of the Russian capital saying two drones had hit non-residential buildings in the city. The attack came a day after Kyiv vowed to…
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Russia launched overnight air attacks on Ukraine’s south and east using drones and possibly ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s Air Force said early on Tuesday. The southern port of Odesa and the Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and…
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of Russia’s agricultural bank to the…
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