Ukraine strikes deep inside Russia
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Russia said on Tuesday that its forces were tightening their encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the city of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub they have been trying to capture for over a year. With fighting raging in the streets of the ruined city,
Days after canceling a planned summit with Putin, citing a lack of progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, Trump took a major step by effectively blacklisting Rosneft and Lukoil.
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US sanctions Russia’s two largest oil companies and calls on Moscow to agree to immediate ceasefire
The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.
China and Russia pledged a joint response to unilateral sanctions during a visit by Russia's Prime Minister, as Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed Beijing's commitment to advancing ties with Moscow despite "turbulent" external conditions.
Russia has launched another massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing power outages across the country.
Russia fired one of its largest drone and missile assaults against Ukraine overnight, killing three people, including a 7-year-old girl, and cutting power to thousands as winter approaches,
Russia remains in constant contact with Venezuela over tensions in the Caribbean, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine
As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.
In previous sieges during the almost four years since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine has pulled out of some places to avoid losing troops. Ukrainian forces are desperately short-handed against Russia’s bigger army.
Putin said the small-scale nuclear technologies used in both the Burevestnik and the Poseidon were particularly useful for work in the Arctic and for space travel and, eventually, for building a station on the moon.