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ILLIA NOVIKOV

ILLIA NOVIKOV

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Navigating through darkness: Ukraine’s emergency blackouts return after Russia pounds infrastructure

Ukraine is experiencing rolling blackouts as Russia intensified strikes targeting energy infrastructure over the past three months

Navigating through darkness: Ukraine’s emergency blackouts return after Russia pounds infrastructure
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits front-line troops under pressure from Russia's onslaught in eastern areas

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi have visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region who have weathered fierce Russian ground and air assaults in recent months

Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits front-line troops under pressure from Russia's onslaught in eastern areas
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Hungary's Russia-friendly leader is in Ukraine. It's his first visit since the war began

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made his first visit to neighboring Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion

Hungary's Russia-friendly leader is in Ukraine. It's his first visit since the war began
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Russian missiles and drones strike eastern Ukraine's Dnipro in a daylight attack that kills 5

Authorities say a Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed five civilians and injured 47 others

Russian missiles and drones strike eastern Ukraine's Dnipro in a daylight attack that kills 5
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Russia's heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months kills at least 31 and hits a children's hospital

Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors

Russia's heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months kills at least 31 and hits a children's hospital
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Ukraine mourns as rescuers search the rubble of a Kyiv children's hospital struck by a missile

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile

Ukraine mourns as rescuers search the rubble of a Kyiv children's hospital struck by a missile
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Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the US

After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine’s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds

Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the US
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Russia says it thwarted a Ukrainian charge to expand its incursion. Kyiv says it won't occupy land

The Russian Defense Ministry says its forces have checked an effort by Kyiv’s troops to expand a stunning weeklong incursion into Russia’s Kursk region

Russia says it thwarted a Ukrainian charge to expand its incursion. Kyiv says it won't occupy land
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Ukraine says it has taken more ground and prisoners during its advance into Russia border region

Ukrainian forces are pushing on with their major cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week

Ukraine says it has taken more ground and prisoners during its advance into Russia border region
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Ukraine has destroyed or damaged all 3 bridges over Russia's Seym River, Russian sources say

Russian sources say Ukrainian forces have either destroyed or damaged all three of the bridges over the Seym River in western Russia as Kyiv’s incursion enters its third week

Ukraine has destroyed or damaged all 3 bridges over Russia's Seym River, Russian sources say
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Zelenskyy makes 1st visit to border area where Ukrainian forces launched offensive into Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first visit to the border area where his forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia two weeks ago

Zelenskyy makes 1st visit to border area where Ukrainian forces launched offensive into Russia
Crime|News|World

Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court

Ukraine has ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Wednesday, opening the possibility of more prosecutions of Russian officials for war crimes

Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court
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Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks independence anniversary

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged over 100 prisoners of war as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion

Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks independence anniversary
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Russia's deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over half of Ukraine

Russia battered much of Ukraine with scores of missiles and drones that officials say killed four people, injured more than a dozen, and damaged energy facilities

Russia's deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over half of Ukraine
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Ukraine says F-16s shot down some missiles in latest Russian barrage that killed 5

Russia has fired dozens of missiles and drones across Ukraine for a second day

Ukraine says F-16s shot down some missiles in latest Russian barrage that killed 5
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A Russian missile hits the Ukrainian president's home city as it mourns deaths in an earlier attack

A Russian missile has slammed into Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city

A Russian missile hits the Ukrainian president's home city as it mourns deaths in an earlier attack
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Ukraine says one of its Western-donated F-16 warplanes has crashed

Ukraine's military says that one of the handful of F-16 warplanes that Ukraine has received from its Western partners to help fight Russia’s invasion has crashed

Ukraine says one of its Western-donated F-16 warplanes has crashed
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Ukrainian president fires air force commander after fatal F-16 crash

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the commander of the country’s air force after one of its Western-donated F-16 warplane crashed and the pilot died

Ukrainian president fires air force commander after fatal F-16 crash
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Ukraine's children return to school as Russia launches drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv

Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched an overnight barrage of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv as children prepared to return to school on Monday after summer vacation

Ukraine's children return to school as Russia launches drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv
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Russian missiles blast Ukrainian military academy and hospital, killing more than 50, officials say

Ukrainian officials say two Russian ballistic missiles blasted a military academy and nearby hospital in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others

Russian missiles blast Ukrainian military academy and hospital, killing more than 50, officials say
News|World

Ukrainian foreign minister resigns ahead of expected reshuffling of government leaders

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, one of Ukraine’s most recognizable faces on the international stage, has submitted his resignation ahead of an expected reshuffling of government leaders

Ukrainian foreign minister resigns ahead of expected reshuffling of government leaders
News|World

Ukraine gets a new chief diplomat as the war with Russia enters a critical phase

Two lawmakers say that Ukraine’s parliament has approved the appointment of a new foreign minister

Ukraine gets a new chief diplomat as the war with Russia enters a critical phase
Europe|News|World

Iranian missiles in Russia are a legitimate target, a Ukrainian official says

A senior Ukrainian official says Western partner countries must allow Ukraine to use weapons they have supplied to strike military warehouses inside Russia because of strong suspicions Iran has provided ballistic missiles for the Kremlin’s war effort

Iranian missiles in Russia are a legitimate target, a Ukrainian official says
Economy|News|World

US and UK pledge almost $1.5 billion to help Ukraine during diplomats' visit to Kyiv

The United States and Britain have pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats

US and UK pledge almost $1.5 billion to help Ukraine during diplomats' visit to Kyiv
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Ukraine says Russia has started a counteroffensive in its Kursk border region

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has launched “counteroffensive actions” in its Kursk region to dislodge Ukrainian forces who stormed across the border five weeks ago and put Russian territory under foreign occupation for the first time since World War II

Ukraine says Russia has started a counteroffensive in its Kursk border region

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