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President Donald Trump confirmed on 8 March that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for roughly an hour, calling it “a very good conversation” focused on the war…
Category: 6. Opinion
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Casualty count climbs to ten in Dnipro after Russian strike damages residential building
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Russian forces struck Dnipro overnight, damaging a residential apartment block and a bank branch and wounding ten people, including a 12-year-old boy, according to…
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1475: Ukraine went from importing almost no weapons to buying more than any country on Earth — in four years flat
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Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on Earth. Even as Washington reduced military aid to Ukraine in… Continue Reading
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Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on Earth
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Ukraine became the world’s largest recipient of major arms in 2021–25, absorbing nearly 10% of all global arms transfers as Russia’s invasion drove the dramatic shift in…
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Ukraine’s drones killed a Tor in Donetsk. Then a Grad in Zaporizhzhia. Same day.
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Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian Tor surface-to-air missile system in occupied Donetsk Oblast and a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher in occupied…
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FP-7 tested, FP-9 at 800 km approaching trials: Fire Point reveals Ukraine’s ballistic missile roadmap
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Ukrainian defense firm Fire Point is developing two ballistic missiles — the FP-7 and FP-9 — built to be produced at scale and fired in quantity, chief designer and…
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How you rob a bank convoy in the EU: Be Hungary, bring an APC and machine guns, deport bank couriers, keep cash and gold as “evidence”
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a detailed account on 9 March of how Hungary treated seven Oschadbank employees detained four days earlier, calling…
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From $40 to $91 in nine days: how the Iran war rescued Russia’s oil revenues
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Nine days after US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Brent crude has nearly doubled and Russian Urals crude more than doubled from where both traded two weeks ago. G7 finance…
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Brent at $100, Urals at $91: the Iran war handed Moscow its best oil week in years
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Nine days after US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Brent crude has nearly doubled and Russian Urals crude more than doubled from where both traded two weeks ago. G7 finance…
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Fico: “Slovakia is ready to take over the baton from Hungary, if necessary” — on blocking EU’s Ukraine loan and Russia sanctions
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened on 8 March to block Ukraine’s €90bn EU loan and announced Slovakia would take Hungary’s place doing so if needed, Reuters
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