MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian forces took control of the settlement of Yampolivka in eastern Ukraine, the RIA state news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Defence Ministry. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by Alison Williams)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was Ukraine’s sovereign right to decide whether it wanted to join the European Union and that Moscow did not intend to dictate to Kyiv how it should approach the question. Asked if Ukraine could one day join the European Union, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a delegation to meet with senior officials from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in Riyadh on Tuesday in their highest-level talks since Moscow sent its forces into Ukraine in 2022. Following are the key members of the Russian delegation: FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV Lavrov, aged 74 and …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is ready to move quickly with proposals to ease budget rules to facilitate increased defence spending by member states, EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Tuesday. “It is clear we need to move very fast, as regards to spending by member states and additional flexibility. We expect to work …
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KYIV (Reuters) – An large-scale overnight Russian drone attack hit a residential building in the city of Dolynska in central Ukraine, injuring a mother and her two children and forcing evacuations from 38 apartments, a regional official said on Tuesday. “A difficult night for the Kirovohrad region,” Andriy Raikovych, the region’s governor, said in a …
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RIYADH (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday described U.S. President Donald Trump as a problem solver ahead of U.S.-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia, the first high-level, in-person discussions in years between the two countries. “We really see that President Trump and his team is a team of problem solvers, people …
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PARIS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that a U.S. security commitment was the only way to ensure lasting peace in Ukraine and it was too early to say how many British peacekeeping troops he would be willing to deploy. When asked what a U.S. security guarantee would mean and what …
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By John Irish, Elizabeth Pineau and Humeyra Pamuk PARIS/RIYADH (Reuters) -European leaders meeting in Paris for emergency talks on Monday called for higher spending to ramp up the continent’s defence capabilities but remained split on the idea of deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine to back up any peace deal. The leaders also agreed it would be …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A group of European leaders agreed at a meeting in Paris on Monday they were ready to give Ukraine security guarantees, but it would be dangerous to conclude a ceasefire without a peace agreement at the same time, a European Union official said. “We are ready to provide security guarantees, with modalities …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro NANTES, France (Reuters) – When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec’s home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography. They said they also discovered electronic diaries that appeared to detail nearly three decades of rapes and sexual …
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