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In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, attacks and drone strikes continue to escalate in the partially occupied regions of Kherson and Luhansk. Ukrainian assaults have resulted in at least 27 deaths, with casualties caused by guided bom...

Cricket has been approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, marking its return after 128 years. The recommendation was made by the organisers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, and the final ...

The Russian Olympic Committee has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for incorporating sports bodies in eastern Ukraine, which violates the Olympic Charter. This move comes after the IOC previously supported Russian athletes...

Russian President Putin makes his State of the Nation address for the current year. Putin asserts that the blame for the war lies with the West. He claims that they aim to direct aggression eastwards and eliminate competition & the West wants to gro...

As per reports, Russia continues to suffer embarrassing defeats in the northeast and south, especially after the liberation of Lyman. Experts predicted that the Russian troops were exhausted and suffered a shortage of personnel.

The ministry's daily video briefing made no mention of any pullbacks, but on maps used to show the location of purported Russian strikes, the shaded area designating Russian military control was much smaller than the day before. In northeast Ukraine...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties Friday to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and said he would use “all available means” to protect the territory that Ukrainian and Western officials said Russia was claiming illegitimately and in viola...

The pro-Moscow administrators of those regions will sign treaties to join Russia during the ceremony at the Kremlin's St. George's Hall. The official annexation was widely expected following the votes that wrapped up on Tuesday in the areas under Ru...

Meanwhile, Ukraine's military and a Washington-based think tank said Wednesday that Russia is sending troops without any training to the front line.Moscow has struggled to hold the line against Ukraine's recent counteroffensive and has ordered a par...

Voting has begun in Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia. The Kremlin orchestrated the votes and they're certain to go Russia's way. But Ukraine and the West have denounced them as shams without any legal force. The...

The votes are being held in the Luhansk, partly Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. In Kherson, which is almost fully controlled by Moscow, the balloting was also expected to get underway on Friday morning. The vote, which asks resi...

Putin orders benefit payments for people arriving in Russia from Ukraine

Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR), a Kyiv-based Ukrainian NGO, said on Wednesday that it had identified at least 18 filtration centres.

Between 2019, when the procedure was first introduced for the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk, and this year more than 720,000 residents of the rebel-held areas in the two regions - about 18% of the population - have received Russian passports.

The governor of Luhansk, Serhyi Haidai, said Russia launched over 20 artillery, mortar and rocket strikes in the province overnight and its forces were pressing toward the border with neighbouring Donetsk.

Russia appears bent on capturing the entire eastern Donbas part of Ukraine, which is made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. That goal appears to be its most immediate ambition in Ukraine.

Russia Ukraine War: As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said Sunday. Russia Ukraine War: 60 feared dead in school bombed by...

The move comes ahead of secondary legislation in the UK Parliament on Thursday, which will ban the import of iron and steel products as well as the export of quantum technologies, advanced materials and luxury goods.

Russia has denied targeting civilians since the start of its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation" to disarm and "denazify" its southern neighbour, a democratic country of 44 million people.