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Live updates: Biden and Zelensky news conference at G7 summit
12:15 p.m. ET, June 13, 2024
Analysis: As other G7 leaders face the end, Giorgia Meloni seizes her moment…
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Ukraine Says It Shot Down Most of a Russian Missile and Drone Barrage
Ukraine said on Wednesday that its air defenses — drawing on stocks of anti-aircraft missiles recently replenished by its allies, including the United States — had shot down 29 of 30 missiles and exploding drones that Russia had fired at the country in an overnight barrage. It was one of the better rates of interception by Ukraine so far during…
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Russia had a golden opportunity to open a new front in Ukraine but is squandering it,
Russia is fumbling a golden opportunity in Ukraine as its latest offensive stalls, experts told Business Insider.A month ago, an estimated 30,000 Russian troops began pouring over Ukraine's northern border into the Kharkiv region, opening up a new front for Ukraine's already-stretched defenses.Ukraine was in a particularly weak spot. Yet four…
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Ukraine to seek secure parking for F-16s abroad
Kyiv expects first donated fighter jets will arrive later this year, but plans to keep some outside the country.Anticipating deliveries of US-made F16s from European allies, Ukraine has plans to store some of the fighter jets at bases abroad due to security concerns.
A senior Ukrainian air force commander said in comments published late on…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says fellow Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is an
Washington — Sen. Lindsey Graham said his Republican colleague Sen. Tommy Tuberville is an "outlier" within the party when it comes to his stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine."Sen. Tuberville's analysis really misses what Putin is all about," Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said on "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "He's an…
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Under a drone-filled sky, Ukraine tries to retake a town, one house at a time
The two Russian soldiers jogged across an apocalyptic landscape. They kept going, zigzagging over a vegetable patch. At the intersection between Hoholia and Travnia streets, the pair disappeared into a roofless brick building. Around them was the ruined town of Vovchansk. It was a smouldering hell of blackened blocks of flats and shell-dinted…
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Graffiti with images and messages referencing Ukraine appear on Paris buildings near
Unusual spray-painted images and messages with references to Ukraine have appeared on the streets of Paris as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the French capitalJune 7, 2024, 10:46 AM ET• 2 min readPARIS -- Unusual spray-painted images and messages with references to Ukraine appeared on the streets of…
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Opinion | More evidence of the idiocy of Vladimir Putin
Further evidence — not that any was needed — of the catastrophic idiocy of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is found in an internal study commissioned by Gazprom, a state-controlled energy firm and largest company in Russia. As revealed by the Financial Times, the analysis concluded that the loss of European customers for Russian natural gas in…
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Russia places American serving in Ukraine’s military on wanted list
An American journalist-turned-spokesperson for the Ukraine Armed Forces has been placed on a Kremlin criminal "wanted" list.Sarah Ashton-Cirillo arrived in Ukraine in March 2022 about one month after Russia's invasion of its Eastern European neighbor to cover the war as a reporter. Dubbed the first openly transgender war correspondent, she…
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Biden’s Ukraine mistakes now threaten to punish Taiwan
It was only a matter of time before Kim Jong Un raised his profile as a member of the contemporary Axis of Evil led by Russia, China and Iran in their coordinated attack on the U.S.-inspired international order.
North Korea was already supporting Vladimir Putin’s renewed invasion of Ukraine by supplying ballistic…
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