Russia expels four Austrian diplomats in tit-for-tat move
Russia said on Thursday it was expelling four Austrian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after Vienna expelled four Russian diplomats in a case which appeared to be related to spying.
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Israeli foreign minister promises Zelenskiy more aid, rebuilding help
Israel will expand existing aid to Ukraine and help rebuild the country, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Thursday during the first official Israeli visit to Kyiv since Russia’s ...
Soros says Russian defeat in Ukraine would trigger dissolution of ‘Russian empire’
Billionaire financier George Soros said on Thursday that if Russia was defeated in the Ukraine war it would result in the dissolution of what he called the ‘Russian empire,’ something ...
Ukraine pounded by missiles (Update)
Russia rained missiles across Ukraine on Thursday and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would ...
Russia declares battlefield gains as NATO ramps up support for Ukraine
Russia said it had broken through two fortified defence lines in Ukraine’s east, while Western allies pledged to ramp up military aid to better arm Kyiv as it prepares ...
Russian bombers intercepted by NORAD near Alaska
Several Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets have been intercepted by North American air defence forces as they flew over international airspace near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defence Command (...
Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war
Vladimir Putin casts the war in Ukraine as a watershed when Russia finally stood up to the West – but some within the elite fear he has committed his country to ...
Swiss government: confiscation of Russian assets found unconstitutional
The confiscation of private Russian assets would undermine the Swiss constitution and the prevailing legal order, the Swiss government said on Wednesday, citing the findings of a working group set ...
Russian journalist gets six years for accusing Russia of Ukraine theatre bombing
A Russian journalist was sentenced to six years in a penal colony on Wednesday for accusing the Russian air force of bombing a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol ...
Russia reports battlefield advances as Ukraine urges faster military aid
Russia said on Wednesday its troops had broken through two fortified lines of Ukrainian defences on the eastern front, as Kyiv demanded faster supplies of military aid from its allies ...
Russia added to non-cooperative tax jurisdictions list
The European Union on Tuesday announced that it had added the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Marshall Islands and Russia to its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.
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Russia says breaks through defences in Ukraine’s Luhansk
Russian troops have broken through the defences of Ukrainian forces in part of the Luhansk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said early on Wednesday.
“During the offensive … the Ukrainian troops ...
NATO allies weigh more arms for Ukraine (wrapup)
Russian forces bombarded front-line Ukrainian troops and towns in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday in what appeared to be early salvoes of a new offensive, as Western allies met ...
EU group to investigate possible access to frozen Russian funds
The European Union will on Wednesday launch an ad hoc group to investigate how billions of dollars in frozen Russian funds, including central bank reserves, can be used for reconstruction ...
Moldova briefly shuts airspace after warning of Russian coup plot
Moldova closed its air space for undisclosed safety reasons on Tuesday before later reopening it, a day after the small east European country accused Russia of plotting to bring down ...
Russian forces bombard Ukraine’s Bakhmut as defenders brace for assault
The city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine endured heavy Russian artillery fire on Monday in an apparent prelude to a major new offensive as the first anniversary of the war ...
Russia can take Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, Chechnya’s Kadyrov says
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian region of Chechnya, said in an interview aired on Monday that Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine by the end of the year ...
Loans to Russian soldiers fuel calls for European banks to quit
A Russian scheme to grant loan payment holidays to troops fighting in Ukraine, and for banks to write off the entire debt if they are killed or maimed, has added ...
Russia’s front in Ukraine moved 2 km to the west in four days
Russian troops have managed to advance 2 km (1.24 miles) to the west in four days along the frontline in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing a statement by ...
Oil rebound more likely this year, $100 a barrel possible
Oil rally to $100 not ruled out by OPEC sources
So far in 2023 Brent is up slightly at just over $86
China demand rebound, lack of sizeable supply growth key drivers
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Zelenskiy says drive to clean up government to continue
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a decree sacking a senior security figure and said separately that his drive to clean up the government would continue.
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Russia: Nato should hold emergency summit over Nord Stream after Hersh revelations
NATO should hold an emergency meeting to discuss recent findings about September explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said late on Saturday.
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U.S. defence heads talk “priorities” for allies’ meeting
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov discussed “priorities”, including air defence and artillery, for upcoming meetings of Kyiv’s allies in Brussels, both sides ...
Wagner boss: Russia could take two years to capture east Ukraine regions
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has said in a rare interview that it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian ...