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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) – Russian air defense troops downed a Ukrainian drone as it approached an air base in southern Russia and three people died after being struck by debris, Russian news agencies said Monday. It was the second attack on the Engels base this month. Engels, in the southern Saratov region, lies more than 600 kilometres (370 miles) from Ukraine. “On December 26, at around 01:35 Moscow time (2235 GMT), a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – Dark circles under his eyes, his beard closely cropped and dressed ubiquitously in khaki, President Volodymyr Zelensky is the face of Ukraine’s determination to expel Russian troops. War has proved transformative for the 44-year-old former comedian, catapulting him from embattled leader of a struggling European outlier to a global household name and standard-bearer of opposition to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Yet his larger-than-life persona and seeming popularity could not have appeared more […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – The price cap on Russian oil agreed by the EU, G7 and Australia is set to come into force on Monday. It aims to restrict Russia’s revenue while making sure Moscow keeps supplying the global market. – Embargo and cap – The cap is due to take effect alongside an EU embargo on maritime deliveries of Russian crude oil, which comes several months after an embargo imposed by the United States and […]
KYIV, Ukraine AFP – More than 1,300 prisoners have been returned to Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the pro-Western country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday. Zelensky was speaking following a new exchange of prisoners with Russian and pro-Russian forces. “After today’s exchange, there are already 1,319 heroes who returned home,” Zelensky said on Instagram, posting a photo showing a few dozen men holding Ukrainian flags. “We will not stop until we get all our people back,” […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – A newborn baby was killed following a Russian strike that hit a maternity ward in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, Ukrainian emergency services said Wednesday. Overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, “in the city of Vilniansk in Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of a rocket attack on the territory of the local hospital, the two-storey building of the maternity ward was destroyed,” rescuers said on social media. They […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) – A Polish court on Monday overturned a decision by Poland’s anti-monopoly watchdog to impose a 6.2 billion euro ($6.3 billion) fine against Russian gas giant Gazprom, the watchdog said. The fine imposed in 2020 against Gazprom and five other companies, including British-Dutch giant Shell, was over construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Supplies through the gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany have since been halted because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. […]
MESEBERG, Germany (AFP) – Government measures to assure supplies of gas over the winter have prepared Germany to deal with further curbs in Russian deliveries, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday, a day before Moscow is due to cut off gas supplies for three days. Germany has set about weaning itself off Russian gas since the invasion of Ukraine, bringing mothballed coal power plants back online, launching a drive to save power and filling its gas […]
by Sam KINGSLEY Agence France Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — It’s one of the few remaining routes from Russia to the EU: trains to Finland are packed with Russians fearful that now is their last chance to escape the impact of Western sanctions. After two years of pandemic, the 6:40 am from St Petersburg was full of largely Russian passengers as it pulled into Helsinki station on Thursday. “We decided with our families to […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s defence ministry Thursday signed off on the purchase of 33 Russian fighter jets and upgrades to 59 others worth $2.4 billion, amid rising tensions with nuclear-armed neighbour China. The purchase of 21 MiG-29 and 12 SU-30 MKI, as well as upgrades to 59 existing MiG-29s, was to “augment” the Indian Air Force’s combat squadrons, the ministry of defence said. New and additional missile systems to be manufactured in India […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said on Monday, following the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) ruling to ban Russia from sports for the next four years, that Russia athletes could dispute the agency’s ban through the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Earlier in the day, the WADA Executive Committee decided to ban Russian athletes from participating in the Olympic Games for 4 years. WADA decided to admit to the next Olympic […]
Syrians in rebel-held territory uploaded videos on Sunday (October 4) alleging to show the aftermath of Russian airstrikes. It was not clear how the Syrians in rebel areas who filmed the incidents knew the planes carrying out the strikes were Russian. The Russians are unpopular with Syrians opposed to the government of Bashar al-Assad because of Moscow’s close ties to the Damascus government. In one of the clips, columns of thick smoke can be seen […]
