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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Sunday thanked Russia’s special forces, singling out those who are “heroically fulfilling their military duty” in Ukraine, in a televised address that was also published on the Kremlin website. Russian forces have attacked oil and gas facilities in Ukraine, sparking huge explosions, officials said on Sunday, as Western …

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(Corrects description of NetBlocks to internet monitoring organisation, not ‘blockage observatory’) By James Pearson and Raphael Satter LONDON (Reuters) -Internet connectivity in Ukraine has been affected by the Russian invasion, particularly in the southern and eastern parts of the country where fighting has been heaviest, internet monitors said on Saturday. Russian forces captured the southeastern …

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(Reuters) -Ukrainian forces battled Russian troops on the streets of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv on Sunday, the regional governor said. “The Russian enemy’s light vehicles have broken into Kharkiv, including the city centre,” Governor Oleh Sinegubov said. “Ukraine’s armed forces are destroying the enemy. We ask civilians not to go out.” Videos published by …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the world on Sunday to scrap Russia’s voting power at the U.N. Security Council and said Russian actions verged on “genocide.” “This is terror. They are going to bomb our Ukrainian cities even more, they are going to kill our children even more subtly. This is the evil …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The official website of the Kremlin, the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin, kremlin.ru, was down on Saturday, following reports of denial of service (DDoS) attacks on various other Russian government and state media websites. The outages came as Ukraine’s vice prime minister said it had launched an ‘IT army’ to combat Russia …

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