(Reuters) -Russia launched an intense air attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, but Ukraine said air defences destroyed all 18 missiles, including six hypersonic missiles. FIGHTING * Ukraine said the missiles shot down included six Kinzhal ballistic missiles fired from aircraft. * “The work of air defences was extremely successful. Six Kinzhals …
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By Kate Abnett and America Hernandez BRUSSELS (Reuters) -France will host a meeting of ministers from 16 pro-nuclear European states on Tuesday aimed at coordinating expansion of atomic power and urging the EU to recognise its role in meeting climate goals for 2050, the country’s energy ministry said. The meeting in Paris will include EU …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with France’s TF1 television on Monday that France is open to training Ukrainian fighter jet pilots in France and that those training programmes could start right away. Asked about delivering warplanes to Ukraine, Macron said he had not discussed that issue with Ukraine President …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s state security agency has served businessman Dmytro Firtash and top managers of companies he controls with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement on Monday. The SBU said that, acting with the Economic Security Bureau (BEB), it had uncovered the alleged theft of up …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. aid chief said on Monday efforts will continue in coming days to extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, a pact Russia has threatened to quit on May 18 over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The final two ships …
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By Huseyin Hayatsever, Orhan Coskun and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably on Monday after the first round of Turkey’s presidential election, with his rival facing an uphill struggle to prevent the president extending his rule into a third decade in a runoff vote on May 28. Turkish assets weakened on the …
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By Dan Peleschuk and Kylie MacLellan KYIV/LONDON (Reuters) – Ukraine on Monday hailed its first substantial battlefield advances for six months as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won pledges of new long-range drones in Britain to add to a haul of Western arms for a counteroffensive against Russian invaders. Since last week, the Ukrainian military has started …
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By Max Hunder DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers training for a counteroffensive against Russian forces said on Monday they felt ready to launch the assault which they hope will end the war. Members of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade practiced setting up and packing away their mortars as the sun beat down on …
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak President Zuzana Caputova appointed Ludovit Odor prime minister on Monday, giving his cabinet a task to lead the country to an early election in September. Odor, 46, is a respected, politically independent economist coming from the euro zone country’s central bank board. His appointment follows the collapse of a centre-right coalition …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s military on Monday hailed recent advances around Bakhmut as its first successful counterattack in the battle against Russian forces fighting for control of the eastern city. But Kyiv also said the situation in Bakhmut was difficult. It cautioned that Moscow had not changed its goal of capturing the city …
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