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(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces shelling damaged the administration building in the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk region, Russian-backed administration of the city said on Sunday. The administration said on the Telegram messaging app that the main entry into the building was hit and several nearby cars damaged. There was no immediate reaction …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has backed a proposal to train a large number of Ukrainian soldiers in the country, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu told newspaper Le Parisien on Saturday. “The president… has approved a training plan that will allow up to 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers to be welcomed in France,” he said. “They …

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By David Ljunggren (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops are still holding the strategic eastern town of Bakhmut despite repeated Russian attacks while the situation in the Donbas region remains very difficult, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. Zelenskiy, speaking in an evening address, also said Russian missiles and drones had continued to hit Ukrainian cities, causing …

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By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet (Reuters) -Slovakia could treat the killing of two people outside a well-known gay bar in the capital Bratislava as an act of terrorism, a top prosecutor said on Friday, as investigators looked deeper into the shooting which has rattled the central European state. The killings, investigated as a possible …

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By Mike Stone and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will send munitions and military vehicles to Ukraine as part of a new $725 million security assistance package aimed at bolstering the country’s defense against the Russian invasion, the Defense Department said on Friday. The package is the first since Russia’s barrage of …

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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday said that no one should dare think they can uproot the Islamic Republic, in his toughest warning to protesters since Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody ignited nationwide unrest now in its fourth week. Demonstrations by people from all walks of life, …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian investigators have completed the exhumation of soldiers in one of two mass graves discovered after Russian troops retreated from the town of Lyman in eastern Donetsk region, police said on Friday. “Police have removed the bodies of 34 Ukrainian defenders from the mass grave,” Donetsk regional police said in a statement. “Work …

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