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Zelensky backs Trump's 'energy ceasefire' but says Russia continues to hit power plants
Ukraine's leader says he will support such a truce if Moscow does, after initially expressing surprise at Donald Trump's announcement.
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Ukraine says ready to halt refinery strikes if Moscow stops energy attacks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Kyiv was ready to halt strikes Russian oil refineries if Moscow stopped attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Zelensky also pushed back on US President Donald Trump's comments made Saturday evening calling for Ukraine to elect a new leader by saying, "It's up to our people".
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'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
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Germany sticks to Russia sanctions after Trump diesel deal
After Washington announced a sanctions pause on Russian diesel, Germany has said it remains committed to pressuring Moscow and supporting Ukraine. More on DW.
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Trump hails Russia deal to release diesel as midterms loom
US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had secured Russia's agreement for a major release of diesel, as he eased war sanctions on Moscow in a push to lower energy costs ahead of midterm elections.
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Putin tells Trump peace talks are unlikely, cites Ukraine drone attacks
Drone attacks on Moscow during last month's election undermined trilateral peace negotiations, the Kremlin says.
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Trump's diesel agreement with Putin accused of contradicting Russia sanctions law
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a searing statement that the U.S. easing sanctions on Moscow "plays into Russia's hands."
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Gerhard Schröder visits latest Russian employer, Hyperglobus
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visited a Moscow supermarket in his new role on the supervisory board. Schröder is no stranger to retirement stipends in Russia — or the scandal that accompanies them.
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Trump to speak to Putin on plague as US, UN urge transparency
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the United Nations called for transparency from Moscow. Russian authorities denied that they were imposing anti-plague measures and played down the reports of an incident at a plague research institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region last week.
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Politkovskaya 'predicted' Russia's turn under Putin, editor says on 20th anniversary of her death
Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesday. Politkovskaya had reported on the war in Chechnya and Putin's rise before she was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block on October 7, 2006.
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Is Europe preparing for a wider war with Russia?
A British war-game show simulating a Russian attack has drawn a nuclear warning from Moscow.
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Ukraine fires nearly 900 drones at Russia, says Moscow
Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday. If the figures accurate, it would make it one of the largest Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia since the start of the war, says France 24's correspondent Gulliver Cragg.
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Ukrainian drones kill two, hit fuel hub in one of biggest attacks on Moscow region
Ukrainian drones killed two people and hit a major fuel depot overnight in one of the biggest attacks of the war on Moscow and the surrounding region. France 24's Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi has the details.
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Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russia’s Moscow region, killing two
Russia says 290 drones targeted Moscow and nearby regions in the overnight Ukrainian assault.
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Ukraine hits Moscow with one of its largest drone attacks in two years
Ukraine launched overnight one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow in the past two years, killing two men and injuring several people in the Russian capital, local officials said on Tuesday.
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Russian officials say 'situation under control' after plague reports
Moscow on Monday downplayed reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, stressing that post-mortem tests had not detected the disease, while Washington said it was closely monitoring the situation. Reports on Friday that plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm. FRANCE 24's August Hakansson reports.
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Germany news: Spy chief warns Russia conflict risk growing
Moscow is already waging a "shadow war" against Europe, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service says. The Left Party is taking a case over remarks by the CDU's Katherina Reiche to a top court.
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Russia’s nuclear plants are ageing. Who will pay to dismantle them?
Moscow faces a huge decommissioning bill at home even as it expands its nuclear industry abroad.
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Russian strike hits Kyiv amid Chancellor Merz visit
Moscow has once again bombed one of Kyiv’s bridges, despite the presence of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Ukrainian capital. The visit was unplanned, but Merz says it was intended to show Germany’s support for Ukraine. France 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg, reporting from Kyiv, says traffic has resumed on the bridge, though slowly. Video shows a large hole in the roadway. Experts say the bridges are extremely solid and difficult to destroy, even with ballistic missiles.
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Russia’s ‘new doctrine’ targets civilian sites in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president says new intelligence shows Moscow aims to 'pressure people to leave' Kyiv and other cities.