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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WARSAW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden affirmed support for Moldova’s sovereignty in a meeting with the country’s president on Tuesday, the White House said, days after Chisinau said it foiled a Russian coup attempt. Biden, in Warsaw on a trip marking the nearly first anniversary of Russia’s invasion …

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By Andrea Shalal and Olena Harmash WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine could secure “sizeable support” from the International Monetary Fund under a new, longer-term program, and its economy should see a gradual recovery over the course of this year, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this week Ukraine hopes to …

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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins reiterated the country’s condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a call with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Secretary Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister said late on Tuesday. The spokesperson said that during the introductory call Hipkins had acknowledged NATO’s support …

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By Jake Cordell (Reuters) -Russia will continue to observe limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy under the New START treaty despite a decision to suspend participation in the agreement, Moscow said on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin announced the freeze during a speech to both houses of the Russian parliament in which …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and its allies will impose new sanctions and export controls in “coming days” to ratchet up pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine and crack down on companies and individuals who are helping Moscow evade sanctions, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Tuesday. Adeyemo …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Italy will keep supporting Ukraine in resisting Russian attacks but has no plans to offer fighter jets, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday during a visit to Kyiv. The Italian leader, on her first trip to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion a year ago, has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv, but others in …

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By Marko Djurica and Yiming Woo NEAR VUHLEDAR, Ukraine (Reuters) – In a dingy medical outpost near eastern Ukraine’s front lines, army medic Viktor battles to save lives on a daily basis. Nearly a year into Russia’s invasion, fighting now amounts to attritional duels of artillery and infantry assaults, with neither side making significant gains. …

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(Reuters) -Belarus said on Tuesday that there was a significant grouping of Ukrainian troops massed near its border and warned that this posed a threat to its security. “At present, a significant grouping of the Ukrainian army is concentrated in the immediate vicinity of the Belarusian-Ukrainian section of the state border,” the defence ministry said …

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