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Andy Harris says Kiev may have no chance of winning against Russia and suggests winding down US aid to Ukraine

Moscow has ensured Kiev will never again be a threat, the Belarusian president has said

Europe and Russia need each other, the former French president has said

Former Ukrainian captives say they were subjected to torture, including frequent beatings and electric shocks, while in custody at a detention facility in south-western Russia, in what would be serious violations of international humanitarian law.

Ukrainian conscription officials accused of taking bribes and smuggling people out of the country have been sacked in an anti-corruption purge.

Kiev doesn’t have enough weapons to “change the balance of the war,” President Andrzej Duda has said

Russian strikes on east Ukraine residential block kills at least 7

Moscow (AFP) – Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. 

 

 

At least five people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say.

A woman allegedly feeding information on the president’s whereabouts has been arrested

Picture this: A tech billionaire in his penthouse decides whether troops in Ukraine live or die with the flick of a hand. It’s real. It’s happening. It’s Elon Musk

It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured.

A Russian "guided bomb" has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials say.

Russia’s business elite was sanctioned to pressure Putin, but war in Ukraine continues

The opposition leader, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, was charged with inciting and funding extremism

A Russian drone strike has hit Ukrainian port facilities at Izmail on the River Danube, a short distance from Nato member state Romania.  

France’s first evacuation plane left Niger on Tuesday with more than 250 people on board, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said. France had said it planned to evacuate its nationals and EU citizens from the West African country following a military coup last Wednesday that unleashed protests against the former colonial power. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Coup supporters denounce former colonial power, shout support for Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has just taken a dangerous turn, with an increasingly desperate Vladimir Putin making a terrifying move.

Unilever (UL), Nestlé, Mondelēz and Procter & Gamble (PG) — the world’s biggest consumer goods companies — fall into this category.