# Russia

Yesterday

1st February 2023

Ukraine to push for European Union membership at summit in Kyiv

Ukraine gained EU candidate status in June last year, several months after Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops rolling across the border.

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This week

29th January 2023 - 2nd February 2023

# Nuclear Weapons

US says Russia is not complying with last remaining nuclear treaty

Moscow announced in early August that it was suspending US inspections of its military sites, which were part of the New START treaty.

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Tue 9:54 PM

# Paris 2024

Olympic Committee rejects Russian demand that its athletes compete without restrictions

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it considered if Russians could compete as neutral athletes rather than under their national flag.

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Updated Tue 8:10 PM

# Ukraine

Biden rejects calls to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets as Russia claims advances

Ukraine has expanded the list of weaponry it needs to be better able to drive Russian forces from occupied territories.

Ukraine has expanded the list of weaponry it needs to be better able to drive Russian forces from occupied territories.

But US president Joe Biden has appeared to draw the line on supplying American fighter jets to Ukraine.

It comes as a Kremlin-appointed Donetsk leader claimed Russian forces were advancing near a strategically valuable town.

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Tue 7:30 AM

# Ukraine

Ukraine government bans senior public servants and lawmakers from travelling abroad

The announcement comes as France, Australia and Norway agree to send weapons to Ukraine.

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Updated Mon 7:00 PM

# missile threats

Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike during phonecall before Ukraine invasion

The Kremlin has disputed the claim, saying there was “no threats with missiles” during the conversation.

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Mon 12:42 PM

Last week

22nd January 2023 - 28th January 2023

# Ukraine

Three killed in Russian strike on eastern Ukraine city of Konstantynivka

At least two have been wounded.

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Updated Sat 5:49 PM

# Ukraine

10 civilians killed and 20 others wounded in latest Russian shelling, Ukraine says

The new casualties included the deaths of at least two civilians in the southern city of Kherson.

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Fri 1:56 PM

# Ukraine War

US along with Germany and Norway announce tanks for Ukraine as battle intensifies

Norway has also promised tanks.

President Biden confirmed the news this evening.

Germany said it will also provide a company of 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr stocks

Norway confirmed it is also sending tanks

The powerful tanks are seen as key to punching through enemy lines

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Updated Jan 25th 2023, 9:38 PM

Voices

Tom Clonan: How Leopard 2 tanks could give Ukrainian forces a 'dramatic advantage'

This is another decisive moment in the war in Ukraine.

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Jan 25th 2023, 3:33 PM

# Corruption

Senior Ukrainian officials quit amid corruption crackdown

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, resigned, along with deputy defence minister Viacheslav Shapovalov.

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Updated Jan 24th 2023, 4:45 PM

# NATO

Turkey's Erdogan warns Sweden on Nato membership after Koran burning

Turkey is one of only two Nato members not to have ratified Sweden and Finland’s plan to join the western alliance in to the Ukraine war.

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Jan 24th 2023, 7:14 AM

# Russia

Ex-FBI agent charged over ties to Russian oligarch

Charles McGonigal is accused of investigating a rival oligarch in return for secret payments from an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Jan 23rd 2023, 8:18 PM

# Ukraine

EU agrees extra €500 million military aid for Ukraine as Germany under pressure over tanks

Berlin, which needs to grant permission for the tanks to be sent to Ukraine, has come under fire for failing to take the critical decision.

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Updated Jan 23rd 2023, 7:20 PM

Last month

January 2023

# Ukraine

'It's killing more of our people': Ukraine denounces 'global indecision' on tanks

Zelensky has said there is ‘no alternative’ but for the West to give Ukraine heavy tanks.

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Jan 21st 2023, 1:03 PM

# Ukraine

Zelenskyy says 'no alternative' but for Western allies to send heavy tanks to Ukraine

Germany has said that no decision has been made on providing the tanks sought by Kyiv at a crucial US-led meeting.

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Jan 20th 2023, 7:45 PM

# Ukraine

Zelenskyy expects 'strong decisions' on arms supplies at meeting of allies in Germany

Ukraine has called on Western allies to provide heavier weapons to step up the fight against Russia.

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Updated Jan 19th 2023, 9:14 PM

# Profile

Ukraine helicopter crash: Who was Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky?

Monastyrsky is the most senior Ukrainian official to have died since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

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Updated Jan 18th 2023, 3:10 PM

# War in Ukraine

Alleged ex-Wagner mercenary flees Russia seeking ayslum in Norway

A human rights group has published interviews with Andrei Medvedev in which he details his dramatic escape.

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Jan 17th 2023, 7:45 AM

# Dnipropetrovsk

Toll from Dnipro strike in Ukraine rises to 40 as Russia denies attack

The Kremlin has pointed to an unsubstantiated theory circulating on social media that Ukrainian air defence systems had caused the damage.

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Updated Jan 16th 2023, 8:09 PM

# Ukraine

Ukraine races to rescue people from Russian strike as death toll rises to 29

It came as Ukraine celebrated a popular holiday called the Old New Year.

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Updated Jan 15th 2023, 5:54 PM

# War in Ukraine

Strike on residential building in east Ukraine kills at least 5: officials

The strike hit the entrance of a nine-storey building, turning several floors into smouldering rubble.

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Updated Jan 14th 2023, 7:00 PM

# Russia

Putin critic Alexei Navalny says he is being denied hospital care

Navalny said on Wednesday that he had flu symptoms, but was being kept in a punishment cell.

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Jan 14th 2023, 2:30 PM

# Russia

Russia says it controls battered Ukraine town of Soledar

The Kremlin has made capturing industrial Donetsk region, where the small town is located, its primary objective.

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Updated Jan 13th 2023, 11:09 AM

# Soledar

Zelenskyy promises 'everything necessary' to defend key eastern towns from Russia

Ukrainian troops are fighting to retain control of the now-battered industrial towns.

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Jan 12th 2023, 8:18 PM

# Reshuffle

Russia replaces top military commander in Ukraine again

The previous commander of Russian forces in Ukraine will now become deputy to General Valery Gerasimov.

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Jan 12th 2023, 7:54 AM

# Soledar

Ukraine says mining town holding out against Russian assault

The area is under heavy shelling by Russian forces using jets, mortars and rockets.

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Jan 11th 2023, 8:35 PM

# Space

Russia to send new capsule to return crew from ISS as Soyuz suffers meteorite strike

The Soyuz MS-22 will have to return to earth crewless due to damage to the craft.

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Jan 11th 2023, 5:00 PM

# Donestk

Village in key east Ukraine area seized for Russia after months of fighting, separatists claim

The area has been a target for Moscow.

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Jan 9th 2023, 12:38 PM

# Ukraine

Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed 600 soldiers in missile strikes

Russia said the alleged barracks strike was retaliation for a similar Ukrainian hit.

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Jan 9th 2023, 7:15 AM

# War in Ukraine

Two killed in Ukraine despite Russia 'ceasefire', claims Kyiv

Kyiv and AFP journalists on the ground said there was little sign the fighting had eased yesterday.

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Jan 8th 2023, 11:33 AM

# Ukraine

Strikes reported in east Ukraine despite Putin's ceasefire order for next two days

The 36-hour ceasefire was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to coincide with the Russian Orthodox Christmas.

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Updated Jan 6th 2023, 4:34 PM

# Ceasefire

Putin orders 36-hour ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas in Ukraine, Kyiv brands move as 'hypocrisy'

Ukraine’s presidential adviser has rejected Russia’s declaration of a ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas as ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘propaganda’.

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Updated Jan 5th 2023, 8:12 PM

# Peace Talks

Putin says he's ready for Ukraine talks if Kyiv accepts 'new territorial realities'

A Russian church leader has also called for a ceasefire in order to celebrate Orthodox Christmas tomorrow.

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Updated Jan 5th 2023, 1:48 PM

# Russia

Former Russian parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov dies, state TV reports

Khasbulatov, an ethnic Chechen, died at his home outside Moscow aged 80.

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Jan 3rd 2023, 10:39 PM

# Russia

Mourners gather for rare public commemoration in Russia for soldiers killed by Ukraine strike

Russia yesterday said 63 servicemen were killed when a temporary deployment point was struck in Makiivka.

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Jan 3rd 2023, 3:52 PM

# Airstrikes

Russia will step up exploding drone attacks on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says

The Institute for the Study of War said Vladimir Putin is looking to strengthen support for his strategy among key voices in Russia.

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Jan 3rd 2023, 10:22 AM

# Kyiv

Russia says more than 60 soldiers killed in Ukrainian strike

However, Kyiv said that nearly 400 Russian troops were killed in Makiivka.

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Updated Jan 2nd 2023, 8:00 PM

# Ukraine

Russia's New Year raids on Ukraine kill four and wound dozens

The head of the Kyiv police posted a picture of wreckage of a downed drone that featured the words “Happy New Year” in Russian.

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Updated Jan 1st 2023, 8:28 PM

Last year

2022

# Ukraine

One person killed in Kyiv following Russian strikes on several regions, Ukraine officials say

AFP journalists in Kyiv heard at least 10 explosions in the early afternoon.

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Updated Dec 31st 2022, 4:51 PM