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Key updates on Nov. 26:Shmyhal: Russia sold $1 billion worth of Ukrainian grain on world marketsPolish truckers to start round-the-clock blockade of border crossing on Nov. 27Media: Ukraine retaliated against Russia's mass attack with dronesISW: Russian forces advancing in AvdiivkaUkrainian forces defend positions on east bank of Dnipro…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterLONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian politicians and media lined up on Monday to heap scorn on Britain's next prime minister, Liz Truss, predicting her ascent to power would do nothing to improve dire relations.Within hours of her victory in a contest to lead the ruling Conservative…

Topline Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were still in office, the former president’s son-in-law and former senior advisor Jared Kushner claimed Friday while promoting his new book, marking Kushner’s first public comments on the ongoing war. Jared Kushner appears on "Fox and Friends" on Tuesday. Getty Images…

(Reuters) - Russia's Internal Affairs ministry is preparing a bill that would oblige foreigners entering the country to sign a "loyalty agreement" that would bar them from discrediting official policies, the TASS state news agency reported early on Wednesday.The agreement would be aimed at protecting Russia's "national interests," TASS reported,…

Ukraine’s SBU security service has officially charged Lt. Col. Alexander Dosyagayev, a decorated Russian officer with the Hero of Russia title, with committing war crimes in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, when the town was under Russian occupation in early 2022.Dosyagayev stands accused of committing war crimes on Ukrainian soil, specifically involving the…

An orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday.Bohdan Yermokhin was pictured embracing family members in Minsk in photographs shared on social media by Russia’s…

Russia has likely tried to deploy “deeply controversial, indiscriminate” anti-personnel mines as Moscow ramps up its assaults on Ukraine, according to the U.K.’s defense ministry.   The use of PFM-1 and PFM-1S mines in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and elsewhere may cause mass casualties, a Monday intelligence update from the…

Residents lining up at a water distribution point in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, last month.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesMYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The embattled city of Mykolaiv emerged on Monday from a 54-hour lockdown during which officers went door to door in search of collaborators who officials say are responsible for helping Russian…

A 33rd Mechanized Brigade Leopard 2A4.Ukrainian army photoIt seems Russian forces have knocked out another two Ukrainian Leopard 2 tanks. If so, they would be the fourth and fifth Leopard 2 loss in just a week or so along a single sector of the 600-mile front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. The apparent recent Leopard 2 losses all…

Russian police have detained one of the most prominent opposition politicians still free in the country for his public criticism of the Ukraine war, capping a six-month crackdown on dissent propelled by the Kremlin’s invasion of its neighbour.Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of Ekaterinburg, the fourth largest city in Russia, said he was to be…