President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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At G7, Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Rift With Allies
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Trump To Leave G7 Summit Early After Issuing Warning To Residents Of Tehran
US President Donald Trump will return to Washington from the Group of Seven summit in Canada on June 16 night to attend to many “important matters,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
The announcement came shortly after Trump on social media urged residents of Tehran to leave…
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Donald Trump opens G7 summit by criticising Russia’s exclusion
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Donald Trump said it was a “big mistake” to exclude Russia from G7 summits as he used his opening remarks of the meeting in Canada’s Rocky Mountains to…
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Moscow Mixing Up Body Parts And Sending Russian Remains, Complicating Identification Of War Dead, Ukraine Charges
Russia is purposefully making it more difficult for Ukraine to identify repatriated remains by sending badly mutilated bodies and mixing up body parts, complicating the already grim and painstaking task of matching names to the remains of those killed in Moscow’s war on its neighbor,…
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RFE/RL Unmasks Russian Soldiers Behind Bucha Killings
For three days in March 2022, Yablunska Street in the city of Bucha became synonymous with the brutality of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Now, more than two years later, a new investigation by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reveals how Russian forces carried out systematic and…
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EU seeks to sever nuclear energy ties with Russia
Brussels will this week set out legal measures to put a complete stop to Russian fossil fuel imports into the EU.
But it has delayed plans to wean the bloc off a smaller but far more tricky reliance: Russian nuclear technology.
Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU countries have…
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G7 Leaders Confront New Crisis In Middle East At Summit Also Expected To Discuss Ukraine War
Israel and Iran kept up their attacks on each other on June 15 as leaders of the Group of Seven began gathering in Canada for a summit expected to discuss the fighting and ways to keep the conflict from further escalating.
The war in Ukraine also will be on the agenda at the three-day meeting of…
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New Footage Of Bucha Massacre Reveals How Russia Targeted Civilians On Yablunska Street
In March 2022, as Russian forces overtook the Ukrainian town of Bucha, dozens of civilians were killed in three days of violence concentrated on Yablunska Street. Russian authorities would later claim that images of the massacre were staged. But the stories of survivors suggest that many…
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Ukraine Receives Another 1,200 Bodies From Russia As War Rages On
Russia 15 returned another 1,200 bodies it says belong to Ukrainians killed in the war, Ukrainian authorities said, while fighting continued and Russia claimed it seized control of a village in the Donetsk region.
The repatriations are being conducted following two rounds of direct peace talks…
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The EU needs to punch its weight on sanctions
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When I started digging into Russia’s central bank reserves, sanctioned after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I puzzled over why western governments didn’t publish…
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