By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Rescuers in Lithuania were digging on Thursday into a peat bog in a military training area to recover the vehicle of four U.S. soldiers missing for two days. The soldiers in the M88 Hercules armoured recovery vehicle were on an exercise at the Pabrade training ground near the Belarus border …
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By Barbara Erling and Marek Strzelecki WARSAW (Reuters) – Firms from Germany, South Korea, Turkey and France are bidding to create an ammunition manufacturing joint venture with Poland, to be signed off in 3-4 months, that could also lead to strategic intergovernmental cooperation, Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk told Reuters. Poland is leading a European …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are stepping up attacks along Ukraine’s northeastern border in a bid to break into the Sumy region, Kyiv’s top general said on Thursday. Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have been all but pushed out of Russian territory they captured in a cross-border offensive last August. Oleksandr Syrskyi, while …
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(Reuters) – Russian shelling on Thursday killed at least two people, damaged railway infrastructure and partially disrupted power supplies in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, officials said. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of flouting a truce on energy strikes brokered by the United States. The Kremlin contends it has already been implementing a …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France, Italy and Slovakia have demanded the EU amend its carbon border levy this year to simplify the rules for businesses covered by the scheme, a document seen by Reuters showed. The European Commission has already proposed changes that would exempt 90% of companies from the carbon border levy, …
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By Giulia Segreti ROME (Reuters) – Italy is concerned but not “terrified” of any new tariffs the United States could impose on wine, the country’s agriculture minister said on Thursday, adding he hoped diplomatic efforts could avert damage to a key industry. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 200% tariff on wine, …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Yurii Kovalenko KYIV (Reuters) – Kateryna Bondarenko had little doubt that her boyfriend, a fighter with Ukraine’s Azov regiment captured by the Russians in 2022, would receive a long prison term when a military court handed down its sentence. That did not make it any easier when the news of Oleksii …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Russia’s conditions for a ceasefire on the Black Sea were “unrealistic,” and that Russia was trying to drag out talks in order to grab more land. He also said that lifting sanctions on Russia at present would be a “disaster for diplomacy.” (Reporting by Max …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech-led ammunition initiative to supply Ukraine can deliver at least as many shells in 2025 as it did last year, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday following a Paris summit with the Ukrainian president and other leaders. The initiative launched last year by the Czech government and funded by a …
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ROME (Reuters) – A Disney TV crime series will return to its original name after an Italian court annulled a decision that had forced the show to adopt a new title, the global entertainment giant said on Tuesday. “Avetrana – This is not Hollywood” is an Italian-language, fictionalised account of the 2010 murder of a …
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