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Italy will receive less gas on Wednesday from the Russian state gas company Gazprom. According to the Italian oil and gas group Eni, this is about 15 percent less gas than normal. Gazprom did not give reasons for the decision,…
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The Ukrainian army claims to have pushed the Russian fleet in the Black Sea to 100 kilometres from the coastline. The Ministry of Defense writes on Telegram that the Russians no longer control the entire northwestern part of the sea.…
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The US will not provide Ukraine with long-range missiles that can reach targets deep in Russia. President Joe Biden ruled out that on Monday despite repeated requests from the Kyiv government for such weapons. Russian Security…
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The European Commission wants to make it possible to not only freeze the assets of Russians on whom sanctions have been imposed but also to take them. To this end, she proposes to make sanction evasion a criminal offence throughout the EU.…
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A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison in Ukraine. Vadim Shishimarin is the first Russian to be tried for war crimes since the start of the war. The Ukrainian court on Monday ruled against the soldier who shot and…
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separatist. The separatists, or pro-Russian Ukrainians. They fight alongside Putin's soldiers. Yet they are far from safe from the Russians. If they flee from the battlefield, the Russians either execute them or ensure the Ukrainians know…
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Japan will take time to phase out Russian oil imports. So said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in an explanation of the agreement of the leaders of the G7 countries on a ban on oil imports from Russia. With the ban, the seven…
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Russia is expelling two Swedish diplomats in retaliation for an earlier Swedish decision to expel three Russian embassy employees. The Russian Foreign Ministry says the Swedish ambassador was told this on Tuesday. According to the…
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The first images have surfaced on social media of the heavily damaged Moskva, the Russian cruiser that sank last week after a heavy fire on board, possibly caused by a Ukrainian missile attack. The images show a lot of smoke, and…
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According to Ukrainian sources, the captain or commander of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Anton Kuprin (44), is said to be one of the many crew members who died in the sinking of the cruiser Moskva. According to…
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