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Russia suffered significant blows to its reputation in mid-2024. An attack on its territory by Ukraine came as a surprise. In west Africa, the Wagner mercenary group, supported by Russia, suffered one of its heaviest fatalities in Mali.

An…

Ukrainian troops staged a surprise cross-border attack into Russia early last week, and now Kyiv claims to control more than 1,100 square kilometres of its neighbour’s territory.

The incursion has reframed the war and caused chaos in western…

During the past week, Ukraine has launched an offensive in Kursk in the most significant cross-border attack since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.

The Kursk region, located in western Russia and bordering…

Units of the Ukrainian army crossed the border into Russia for the first time on August 6, marking the launch of a surprise…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces pushed on with their major cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region for a second week Wednesday, claiming that they took more ground, captured more Russian prisoners and…

Intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces near a pipeline Russia uses to supply European countries with gas has not disrupted supplies, network operators and gas companies said on Tuesday (13 August).

The European Union drastically…

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Health-care workforces are facing critical shortages, both globally and in the WHO European Region, and many countries rely significantly on the international recruitment of health personnel. Since the start of the war in…

The seeming paradox of Cossack involvement has been little noticed by Western analysts, ^{perhaps because Cossack history is mired in misunderstanding and myth — see the 1962 movie Taras Bulba, a Hollywood interpretation of the Gogol…}