The bombardment, which Ukrainian officials said mostly targeted Kyiv, came just before President Trump was expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Category: 2. RussianAggression
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Russia Unleashes One of Its Largest Drone Barrages of the Ukraine War
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Zelensky Meets With Pope Leo After Inaugural Mass
Ukraine’s president was among the dignitaries and world leaders in St. Peter’s Square. After the meeting, he thanked the Vatican for its willingness to serve as a venue for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
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Merz tries to quell Meloni-Macron spat over Ukraine
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German chancellor Friedrich Merz has sought to cool a bitter diplomatic row between Rome and Paris over Italian premier Giorgia Meloni’s exclusion from a group of European…
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Zelensky Attends Leo’s Inaugural Mass After Pope Offered to Help End War
Ukraine’s president was among the dignitaries and world leaders in St. Peter’s Square after the pope proposed the Vatican as a venue for peace talks.
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Moscow Intensifies Deadly Drone Strikes Ahead Of Potential Trump Calls With Putin, Zelenskyy
Moscow stepped up its campaign of deadly drone strikes on Ukraine, with the latest assaults hitting near Kyiv and in the Sumy region, even as US President Donald Trump said he will speak with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders in separate calls in hopes of a cease-fire breakthrough.
In the early…
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Russia’s Crackdown On Crimean Tatars Echoes Soviet-Era Expulsions
As Ukraine marks the anniversary of Stalin-era deportations of Crimean Tatars more than eight decades ago, members of the ethnic minority group living on the Russian-occupied Black Sea peninsula are enduring a renewed campaign of repression.
May 18 is known in Ukraine as the Day of Commemoration…
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Trump to speak to Putin and Zelenskyy in fresh peace bid
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Donald Trump has said he will speak to Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday to end the “bloodbath” between their two countries, after the Russian…
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Ukrainian Frontline Soldiers Skeptical About Cease-Fire Prospects
Ukrainian soldiers holding down positions in the Kharkiv region say they are too busy firing off artillery rounds to think seriously about prospects for a cease-fire with Russia. If anything, their experience has been that Russia is fighting more aggressively since cease-fire talks began months…
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Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine
Many Russian soldiers say they would see a cease-fire along the current front lines as a failure, hinting at the nationalist discontent the Kremlin could face in accepting a cease-fire.
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Russian Drone Strikes Shuttle Bus in Ukraine
The strike came hours after the first face-to-face talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations since the early days of the war.
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