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Published July 2, 2025 2:47am MOSCOW/PARIS —Russian President Vladimir Putin had a "substantial" phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on the Iran-Israel conflict and Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, the first such exchange between the two leaders since September 2022. In Paris, Macron's office said the call lasted two hours and that…

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File photo of a landmine warning sign in Yemen. Ukraine has joined other countries bordering Russia in signalling that it will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, in the face of what they say are growing military threats from Russia. — AFP pic Planning your holiday getaway? Invest…

Prof Borys Basok at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv Aston University has been working on heat pump technology with the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv The UK researchers have helped adapt…

Pushing countries to keep vows to boost defence spending and bolstering Europe's "dangerous" security will top Denmark's agenda as it takes over the European Union's rotating presidency on Tuesday, according to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Denmark is among European nations put on edge by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and…

Vladimir Putin's forces have sustained heavy losses in Ukraine (Image: Getty) Vladimir Putin has been dealt a massive setback after more than 20,000 soldiers deserted the front line in the war against Ukraine – leaving Kremlin forces even more depleted. Courts have received 20,538 cases of service personnel absent without…

Russia has unleashed its summer offensive in Ukraine’s east and is slowly grinding forward with its advantage in manpower, artillery shells and missiles. The coming months are crucial in President Vladimir Putin’s bid to force Kyiv’s capitulation. Yet Russia’s progress over the past two years against Ukraine has been glacial,…

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has accused Russia of wanting to "subjugate" Ukraine and says President Vladmir Putin has no desire to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. Speaking in Kyiv on June 30 during his first visit to Ukraine since becoming Germany's top diplomat, Wadephul joined recent…

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war. Russia fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine, including 477…

KYIV - President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 29 he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary step in view of Russian tactics in their 40-month-old war. Ukraine ratified the convention in 2005. Other…