By Alexander Ratz, Yuliia Dysa and Michel Rose BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a new long-term security pact with France on Friday, after securing a similar deal and aid from Germany, in a tour jolted by news of the death of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Zelenskiy is visiting Germany and France to …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russians who vote for President Vladimir Putin at elections next month should realize that they are voting for a murderer. Russian authorities reported earlier on Friday that jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in custody. “The events tell (us) that Putin is …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and John Irish MUNICH (Reuters) – The wife of Alexei Navalny led calls on Friday at a Western security gathering for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be held accountable for the jailed Kremlin opponent’s death. Hundreds of politicians, military officers and diplomats were in the German city of Munich for the three-day …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday the security deal he signed with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Friday was ambitious and very substantive. The Ukrainian leader made the comments in Paris at a joint news conference with the French leader. He said the two leaders had discussed joint production of …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. diplomat involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza said on Friday that Israeli forces earlier this month killed Palestinian police protecting a U.N. aid convoy in the enclave’s embattled southern city of Rafah. As a result, Palestinian police have refused to protect convoys, hampering aid deliveries inside …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable domestic opponent, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, authorities said. The death of Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, robs the disparate Russian …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that several “saboteurs”, including Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals, had been detained on the border of the two countries. Speaking at an event in Minsk, Lukashenko said that the detainees had been transporting explosives for use in Russia and Belarus. (Writing by Felix Light; editing by …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – A year after the founding commander of Ukraine’s Da Vinci Wolves Battalion was killed fighting Russian forces, his portrait adorns an airy new recruitment office in Kyiv casting a watchful eye over would-be members. With its military ranks wearing thin, Ukraine is struggling to overhaul mobilisation and broaden recruitment …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation will visit Hungary on Sunday as pressure grows on Budapest to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership when parliament reconvenes after its winter break. Hungary is the only NATO country not to ratify Sweden’s application, a process that requires the backing of all members, souring relations with the United States …
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(This Feb. 15 story has been corrected to change the launch date from ‘March’ to ‘spring’ in paragraph 5) By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – Google is preparing to launch an anti-misinformation campaign across five countries in the European Union (EU), the company told Reuters ahead of the bloc’s parliamentary elections and tougher new rules …
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