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(Reuters) -Former President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council had adopted sanctions against him, and he accused political rival President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of being behind the move. “The National Security and Defence Council has just adopted an unconstitutional, politically motivated decision to introduce sanctions against me, Petro Poroshenko as …

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(Reuters) -Russia’s emergency services said on Wednesday that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Earlier, the ministry said that about 300 were stranded and that some of them refused “to leave without a catch under any circumstances”. The ministry posted …

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By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and Dmitry Antonov WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -The United States is freeing a Russian cybercrime boss from prison in return for Moscow’s release of American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, U.S. administration officials said on Wednesday. The Kremlin said the deal – the first it has struck with the new administration of President Donald …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump and discussed “opportunities to achieve peace” and the preparation of a document governing security and economic cooperation. The call came soon after Trump said he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about starting negotiations immediately with …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russia’s sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev were involved in negotiations for the release of U.S. teacher Marc Fogel from a Russian prison, a source close to the negotiations between Russia and the United States told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The Kremlin could not be …

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By Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a minerals deal between Kyiv and Washington would provide Ukraine with a post-war “security shield”, and President Volodmyr Zelenskiy said he hoped to reach an agreement within days. Bessent, the first cabinet-level official on Donald Trump’s …

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By Filipp Lebedev and Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – The United States will release Russian Alexander Vinnik, a suspected cybercrime kingpin, as part of an exchange with Russia that freed Marc Fogel, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. Vinnik operated BTC-e, once one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. He was arrested in 2017 in a …

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