Voters in important U.S. states showed that Donald Trump’s attempt to return to the White House May be tougher than he expects. Israel forces appear firmly entrenched in northern Gaza as calls for a pause intensify
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Russia and Ukraine have traded accusations of shelling in southern Ukraine as four Ukrainian territories partially occupied by Russian forces continued to vote in so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation. Moscow continued to use Iranian-made kamikaze drones to strike Ukraine
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A second day of so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation is being held in four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Moscow -- votes dismissed as a sham by Ukraine, the West, and the United Nations because they are illegal under international law.
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On several occasions today during live coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, her background role in providing guidance to western leaders and policy makers on the war in Ukraine was mentioned. Russia has reportedly fired dangerously close to another nuclear power plant in Ukraine
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Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces of a growing list of war crimes in liberated parts of the Kharkiv region, as they continued to exhume bodies from a mass burial site discovered in Izyum and said they had found what they described as torture chambers in the area. Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden issues a stern warning to Vladimir Putin against the use of tactical nuclear or biological weapons
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Evidence of massive horrific Russian war crimes is emerging in Izium as advancing forces liberated territory and found mass graves containing mostly civilians but also soldiers. According to reports from journalists and officials in the scene, some bodies show signs of torture or have their hands bound. At least 400 bodies are believed to be in the mass graves next to a cemetery.
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Ukrainian President Zelensky is pleading for more weaponry from European leaders. And in his first meeting with President Putin since the invasion, Chinese President Xi Xinping stops short of voicing public support for Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine
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As Ukraine continues to make significant gains on the battlefield, Russia makes long range missile strikes. Widespread evidence of Russian war crimes are found as new areas are liberated
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Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many prisoners of war that the country was running out of space to accommodate them.
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has confirmed that its forces have entered the strategically important town of Kupyansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Ukraine had now liberated 2,000 sq km from Russia since beginning a renewed counter-offensive earlier this month.
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The chief of the IAEA has expressed concern over the increasingly precarious situation at the Zaporyzhzhia nuclear power plant. Russian rockets have pounded Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.
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Russian abandoned its plans to hold a supposed referendum on a part of Ukraine joining Russia on Monday, saying it was being "paused" because of security concerns. Ukrainian military forces seem to have made some progress on a counter-offensive in the region
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An IAEA mission currently in Zaporyzhzhia aims to establish a permanent presence at the occupied nuclear power plant near the city. Turkey’s president has told his Russian counterpart that Ankara is willing to play a mediating role in the crisis
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IAEA inspectors are expected to arrive at the Zaporyzhzhia nuclear power plant shortly, but reportedly without mission members from the U.S. or UK. Miami residents are being urged to give up their guns so that they can be sent to Ukraine
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As the U.S. commits more aid and weaponry to Ukraine, the Russian president ups the ante for his own citizens by increasing the number of armed services members
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Fears of increased Russian missile attacks across Ukraine as the country nears Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday. The target of a car bomb in Moscow had said she was proud to be in the western sanctions list.
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The UN Secretary General will meet with the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine in Lviv on Thursday. Fresh blasts have rocked Russian-occupied Crimea, raising speculation pro-Ukrainian entities are activists in the illegally-annexed peninsula.
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With a new push from Poland, Russian citizens may soon find it much more difficult to travel to the European Union. A Bellingcat investigation confirms the participants in one of the most heinous Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz opposes the idea of EU-wide entry ban for Russians. A CNN investigation pretty much absolves Ukraine in the bombing of a prison housing its national heroes
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Ukrainian experts at a media briefing today painted the most dire scenarios of what could happen if Russian forces are allowed to operate with abandon at the nuclear power plant near Zaporyzhzhia
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