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Russian air attack on western Ukraine kills at least three people Russia military officials claimed a new success in an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region as Ukrainian forces liberated a village amid a slow-moving, weeks-long counteroffensive that has worried some of Kyiv’s Western backers. The reports came on August 17 as the North Atlantic...

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Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Luka-shenka said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not trying to push Belarus into joining the war in Ukraine and vowed that Minsk’s forces would never take part in the war unless Ukrainian troops crossed the border into Belarus. “To involve Belarus … what will that give? Nothing,” Mr. Lukashenka said in an...

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Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine are being forced to assume Russian citizenship or face harsh retaliation, including possible deportation to Russia, U.S.-backed research published on August 2 said. The research says residents of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions are being targeted by a systematic effort to strip them of Ukrainian identity....

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U.S. President Joe Biden said he and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders showed the world at their summit this week that the military alliance is “more united than ever” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The allies “understand that this fight is not only a fight for the future of Ukraine,” Mr. Biden said...

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Zelenskyy chides West’s foot-dragging on crucial weapons At least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Lviv, Ukrainian officials said, describing it as the “heaviest attack” on the city’s civilian areas since Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. Lviv regional Gov. Maksym Kozytskiy said the death toll increased...

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Two leaders discuss counteroffensive, NATO Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. leader Joe Biden discussed the turmoil in Russia during a phone call following a chaotic weekend in which mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin abruptly called off his group’s armed march toward Moscow and accepted a deal allowing him to move to Belarus and avoid criminal...

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said on June 7 that NATO funding will be a major topic at the military alliance’s summit next month in Vilnius along with enlargement and security guarantees. Ms. Smith and Mr. Stoltenberg, who took part virtually in a conference...

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Britain said it is supplying long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, giving Kyiv the capability to hit Russian troops well behind front lines as it prepares for a long-expected counteroffensive. “I can confirm that the U.K. is donating Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine,” Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told British lawmakers without specifying how many of the...

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Officials in Kyiv “incensed” over report’s findings, say Western allies also doubted Ukraine when war started U.S. authorities have arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in connection with the investigation into the leaking of top-secret defense and intelligence documents that have been circulated online, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on April 13. U.S. President Joe...

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Ukraine’s defense and foreign affairs ministers have stressed the need for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) engagement – including membership for Ukraine – to safeguard security in their country and the entire Black Sea region, as Russian forces continued their assault on the city of Bakhmut and elsewhere in eastern Ukraine. “We need a system...

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The Russian forces who occupied Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson from March until November 2022 ran a “torture center” and other similar facilities at which they unlawfully detained and tortured Ukrainian civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserted in a report issued on April 13. The New York-based rights monitor said the purported torture center was...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unannounced nighttime visit to Mariupol, the occupied Ukrainian city that symbolizes Kyiv’s fierce resistance to Moscow’s invasion, in a possible show of defiance after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a war for his arrest. Putin flew by helicopter to the port city, which had been destroyed by Russian...

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