Ukraine bombed a bridge this week that is vital to Russian soldiers occupying the town of Kherson

Ukraine bombed a bridge this week that is vital to Russian soldiers occupying the town of Kherson, Ukrainian forces shelled the Antonovsky bridge overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday with US-supplied rockets, targeting a main crossing linking Kherson to the Dnipro River’s southern bank and the rest of the region, which is now almost entirely controlled…

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Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”

The newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998. “Of…

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Moscow is expanding its military aims in Ukraine beyond the eastern Donbas region

The Russian military has been experiencing difficulties on the ground, prompting many to wonder whether it is realistic for the Kremlin to expand the scope of its Ukraine operations. President Vladimir Putin’s stated goal for the February 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine was the “demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine”, a prevarication that many took to mean a wholesale Russian takeover, including…

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A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region on Friday

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it confirmed the deaths “including four children who are siblings, two men and an unidentified person… as a result of Russian air strikes,” in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside. The children are all under 10 years old, said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the British-based Observatory. Six of the…

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Tuesday thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for mediating talks

 The export of grain from Ukraine, saying there was some progress. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Putin that Tehran and Moscow need to stay vigilant against “Western deception”, calling for long-term cooperation between them, state TV reported on Tuesday. Russian leader Vladimir Putin Tuesday praised his talks with the presidents of Iran and Turkey, speaking…

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