MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is not currently holding contacts with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian state news agency RIA cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Wednesday. RIA also cited Peskov as saying that Witkoff is welcome to come to Russia at any time. (Reporting by Reuters,Writing by Felix Light)
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian drones struck apartment buildings in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, injuring 32 people, including two children, sparking fires and forcing dozens of residents to flee their homes, regional officials said. According to preliminary information, Russian forces launched 19 drones at the Slobidskyi, Osnovianskyi and Nemyslianskyi districts after midnight, regional governor Oleh …
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(Reuters) -Slovakia wants NATO to boost air defences in the country, on its eastern flank, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said after a meeting with the military alliance’s chief. Fico, in talks in Bratislava with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also defended Slovakia’s plans to decide on its own pace and structure of defence spending …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -The wife of a Belarusian dissident who disappeared after flying to Turkey three months ago says she is pinning her hopes of finding him on U.S. President Donald Trump’s new special envoy to Belarus. Anatol Kotau, 45, flew into Istanbul from Warsaw early on the afternoon of Thursday, August 21. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had fired four U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at the southern Russian city of Voronezh in an attempted strike on civilian targets. Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it had attacked military targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a “significant development.” Kyiv received the …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said an overnight Russian attack killed nine people, wounded dozens more and damaged energy and transport infrastructure. “Every brazen attack against ordinary life shows that the pressure on Russia is insufficient. Effective sanctions and assistance to Ukraine can change this,” he said, calling for air defence missiles aid from …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday when a drone breached its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukrainian infrastructure near the border, the defense ministry said. The European Union and NATO state, which shares a 650 km (400 mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall on its territory repeatedly as …
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(Fixes typo in first paragraph) BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed 13 people and wounded several others, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The Israeli military said that it struck militants who it said were operating in a training compound in the crowded Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near …
By Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) -Ukraine is pushing European allies to take a political decision to release a proposed $163-billion loan based on frozen Russian state assets next month, as it frets over a gaping hole in the 2026 budget and fallout from an unfolding corruption scandal. European leaders failed to agree on the “Reparations …
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By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty. Netanyahu publicly endorsed the plan during a …
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