Ukraine War

The government of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol says 300 people died in a Russian airstrike on March 16 on a theatre being used as a bomb shelter. The post Friday on the city government Telegram channel cited eyewitnesses for the toll of…
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Russia’s highly regarded central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina sought to resign after Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, only to be told by the president to stay, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions.…
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President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his trip this week to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies, as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of…
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Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor said Tuesday. The Kremlin said last week that volunteers, including from Syria, were welcome to…
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The main civilian airport in Ukraine’s Dnipro region was hit by Russian rockets in overnight firing, causing massive destruction of the runway and terminal building. In an online post, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on Tuesday…
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Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city, continued to endure one of the Russian war’s worst strikes with the latter’s forces shelling its downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and elsewhere to avoid the explosions. More than 1,500 people…
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Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday it would make a fresh attempt to evacuate stranded civilians through six “humanitarian corridors” amid reports of Russian forces breaching local ceasefire agreements for the third consecutive day.…
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India has compulsions with Russia, and in their neighbourhood, issues with China over territory, a former top American diplomat has told US lawmakers. The diplomat made the remarks replying to lawmakers’ questions on New Delhi abstaining…
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The Biden administration is trying to urge India to take a “clear position” on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, US diplomat Donald Lu said. Mr Lu noted that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been on the “frontlines of that battle” and that…
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European Union leaders on Thursday pressed Russia to return to peace talks with Ukraine and renewed their threat to impose unprecedented sanctions on Moscow in tandem with the United States and Britain should Russian armed forces cross the…
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