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Ukraine said it hit a major oil refinery and an oil depot in Russia as US President Donald Trump dispatched envoys to Berlin for another round of talks on how to end the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started in 2022.
MI6 chief to deliver remarks on Monday warning ‘chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach’; European leaders to join day two of talks in Berlin. What we know on day 1,391
After almost four years of Russia's full-scale war, Kyiv is running out of cash, and needs an estimated €135.7bn over the next two years.
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Ukraine-Russia deal at ‘decisive moment’ as Trump pressures Zelensky for Christmas peace pact
Ukraine’s leader said Wednesday he anticipates handing over a revised peace proposal to the US “in the near future.”
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As war with Russia drags on, ultrarealistic AI videos attempt to portray Ukrainian soldiers in peril
A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issued a stark warning to Western allies about the reality of the threat posed by Russia, as negotiations are making slow progress to end the war in Ukraine and the U.S. pressures Kyiv to make painful compromises with the Kremlin, including on territorial concessions.
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Ukraine targets Russia's shadow fleet in foreign waters as sanctions fail to sink Putin's oil sales
At least three oil tankers have been hit by explosions in what appears to be a stepped up unilateral effort by Ukraine to sink Russia's sanctions-dodging oil sales.
Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."
The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum, appearing on "Washington Week," discussed Ukraine’s corruption scandal and its impact on President Volodymyr Zelensky and the country's war effort against Russia. JEFFREY GOLDBERG,
RUSSIA has blitzed Ukraine’s port city of Odesa in a revenge attack for drone strikes on oil tankers. An aerial barrage lasting several hours left a million homes without power and water. A total