PRAGUE (Reuters) – Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine’s allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use …
ROME (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers condemned on Saturday “in the strongest terms” Iran’s export and Russia’s procurement of Iranian ballistic missiles. Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, deepening the military cooperation between the two countries, which are both under …
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ROME (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked a judge to sentence right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to six years in prison over his 2019 decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country. The then interior minister, who is currently serving as deputy prime minister and transport minister in Giorgia …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent Russia’s invasion in 2022, the outgoing head of the Western military alliance said in an interview released on Saturday. “Now we provide military stuff to a war – then we could have provided military stuff to prevent the war,” NATO …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched a new overnight drone attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Saturday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to issue a fresh appeal for more air defence and long-range capabilities. Ukrainian air defences shot down 72 out of 76 Shahed drones over 12 regions in the centre, south and east of the …
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By Andrew Osborn and Lucy Papachristou LONDON (Reuters) -Splits in Russia’s opposition in exile have widened sharply, shifting their focus from political activism to infighting after allies of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused another opposition figure of ordering attacks on their activists. The scandal undermines already troubled efforts to forge a united front against …
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet U.S. President Joe Biden for talks on Friday on the next steps in supporting Ukraine, centring on whether to allow Western missiles to be used to hit targets in Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with allies for months to let Ukraine fire …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will not prevail in the war with Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday during a meeting at the White House with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Katharine Jackson)
TORONTO (Reuters) -Ukrainian Canadians protested on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival even after its organizers reversed course and suspended screenings of a documentary about Russian soldiers in Ukraine that has been criticized as propaganda. Earlier this week, “Russians At War” drew scores of protesters outside a Toronto theatre demanding TIFF withdraw the film …
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(Reuters) – Russian forces shelled 15 border areas of Ukraine’s Sumy region a total of 84 times on Friday, killing two people and wounding nine, the regional authority said. The authority, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said two people had died near the town of Yampil. Sumy region has long been the target of …
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